Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day weekend was a bit of a blur. Ally was pretty sick on Friday - 101 degree fever and a cold, so she stayed home from school. She went with me to work in the morning and then we spent the afternoon at home. Ally binge watched her new favorite show H2O which is an Australian TV show about 3 girls who have magical mermaid powers, and I made cake pops. It was our friend Shannon's 40th birthday on Saturday. Ally rallied for the weekend.

 

Ballet Saturday morning and then we went to Sephora for some makeup. Ally has a ballet recital in a few weeks and the girls are supposed to wear light pink lipstick and pink blush. I bought a couple of tubes of lipstick at the drugstore but none were right. I told Ally we could go to the mall and have a professional help us out. She was thrilled. I had thought to go to Macy's and a makeup counter, but Sephora was right there - if you don't know its a make up store that carries its own line of makeup and most of the other department store brands. Right away we had a makeup artist help us out and she tried on a few different colors of lipstick, and found the right blush. I then decided Ally needed some sparkly eye shadow too. It was fun and quick - took about 15 minutes and frankly was so much better than continuing to try for the right shade at the drug store.

 

Pink lipstick, subtle blush and pink sparkly eye shadow.

 Eating cake pops at the party with Stella

 

The birthday mom with her family.

 

 Shannon was so thrilled with all the desserts - and we were all impressed with Atwood's cheese plate.

 

On Sunday morning we headed out to Grandma Barbie and Grandpa Frank's house again.

 

Ally was happy to find some dandelions to blow.

Becky and I worked hard at my parents' - we assembled new kitchen chairs, hung a grab bar, planted flowers, did laundry, changed sheets, shopped for and installed a new toilet seat, hung up a bird feeder - you name it we did it. And we were happy to help. Ally was a good sport about it and had fun going for a ride with Grandpa Frank and Java and playing Uno with her grandparents and reading and watching a movie.  But that night we were all pretty tired.

And that night Ally and Becky and Cloey slept on the king air mattress. It was hilarious - Becky was all scrunched up on the edge of the mattress with Cloey curled up on Becky's belly and Ally snuggled into her.  The things we do for the love of our children and dogs.

And our parents.
When we left Ally asked if we could go back again in two weeks! I'm not sure about that but we will go again soon.