Redfish Lake and Thrift Stores

All of my family went on our annual camping trip to Redfish Lake and we bailed this year. I wasn't up to going this year. It's a ton of work and I just didn't feel like it. It doesn't help that Scott doesn't like camping either so he's always ready to bail. Plus it just feels like we've traveled a lot this summer and I'm 7 months pregnant... the list goes on. Anyway we bailed. I'm a little sad on the one hand to miss out and that my kids missed out but I'm mostly really glad we didn't go. I think the people that went had a great time. At least I know all of the kids had a great time.

Scott had a crazy busy week this week. He went down to Texas on Monday and Tuesday and he was in charge of the ward party on Wednesday. He is so glad that is over. It was a good turn out and it was fun. The rest of the week he had to do a lot of things for elders quorum and work.

On Saturday I did a bunch of thrift store shopping and found some great stuff. I found a nice life jacket for Corbin for $5 and  nice short bike for Gabby for $5. On Saturday we went and cleaned the church and I fell in love with their vacuum. Our vacuum died on us and Scott said that Costco was selling vacuums so we decided to go and check them out...on a Saturday afternoon with the Piper beast during nap time. Piper was on the verge of screaming and having a tantrum the whole time. I wasn't loving any of the vacuums so just as we were about to escape Piper screamed and there was blood running down her face. Awesome! She got a bloody nose in Costco on a Saturday. We high tailed it to the bathrooms and then we high tailed it home. Later that day I decided to check out a few more thrift stores and ended up buying a vacuum for $10 at Goodwill. The great thing about Goodwill is you can return things, certain things you only get store credit but still for a thrift store that is awesome. I knew there was a reason Goodwill was my favorite. (I once bought a vacuum for $30 at the DI and it didn't work and they don't do returns there). I bought the vacuum and we tried it out and it worked great. For now we will use that. The vacuum I fell in love with at the church is only nearly $700. I'm thinking $10 sounds pretty good for now.

When the girls wear their "wedding dress" as Gabby refers to them they are quite the spectacle, but they are so cute.

Nice outfit Gabby.