Blasts from the past

The kids and I slept in this morning, well....if you call 8:30 sleeping in. I woke up to Maggie yelling, "mimi, I'm awake", and I was laying in the bed right beside her. Not sure if she didn't see me, or was just trying to let me sleep a bit more. :) Anyhow, dad went to cut grass at Mama and Papa's house and mom and I were pretty lazy all morning. (That is after mom made a huge breakfast with pancakes, eggs, &bacon) Well, about noon we decided to get going and headed to the cemetary to walk a few miles. The kids had fun out there and it really wore them out. Maggie rode in her stroller some, especially up the hills where she would tell us she was "too busy." I am guessing this means too tired. When we got home we ate some lunch and got the kids down for naps. Dad was home so we decided to take this opportunity to clean out the attic since the kids would be out of the way. We got everything down and went through it all and I must say it was quite a trip down memory lane. As much as it was for me, I am sure it was even more so for mom. We separated everything into goodwill, trash, and keep piles.

We got rid of TONS and found even more great toys for maggie. She hasn't seen them all yet, like all our my little ponys and strawberry shortcakes. But it seems mom had a small bit of money up in her attic. I got to looking on ebay at some of the stuff we found and couldn't believe that one of my old "transformers" (yes, i was into boy toys) was going for 52 dollars.....and it had 2 days left and 13 bidders. The pricetag was still on the box and it had been $15. Along with that there was a strawberry shortcake lunchbox that was going for 30 with several days left, and lots of fisher price toys that were well about 30.








We found mine and Amanda's kitchen and all the dishes and food and Maggie was thriled. She came out and saw it and said, "oh my goodness!" So we spent the rest of the evening cleaning toys and playing with them.
















Owen got himself a new rocking chair that he likes to rock in that had been ours when we were little.

Tommorow will be full of more surprises when we get out some more of the things we found for Maggie...we found our old doctor kit which she'll love because everytime we are in this store that has one she drives mom and I nuts about getting it.
Tongiht we took a walk and Maggie pushed my old stroller down the street and we saw Karri and Nicholas out visiting her parents. Nicholas and Maggie played for along time trying to catch lightening bugs. The also went walking down the street pushing the baby carriage together and we wished so badly we had a camera....it was too cute. They are at such a cute age and it's so fun to watch them playing. Well, tommorow is probably going to be Maggie's last day at sunday school before we go back. She took a few toys last week home with her so we have to be sure to return them tommorow.