It was the Fall City-Wide Garage Sale week, so Debbie Sieger and I worked on Wednesday and Thursday to get her garages ready for the big sale!!!!!
Late Thursday morning, I drove to Overland Park - did a little shopping - and picked up both kiddos at their respective schools before the 3 of went back to their house to see their Momma after she had just arrived home from a short work trip to California. Hugs all around before we took Amanda to a restaurant/bar for Chad's happy hour going away party from Sprint. Peyton, Garrison and I then went to Burger King (their choice) for fine dining and play for dinner.
After we got back to their house, Peyton and I worked on her spelling words for the test on Friday while Garrison played with his building blocks - then they had their showers and were ready for bed when Amanda and Chad arrived back home. I came back to Clinton that night so I would be ready for the first day of our sale on Friday.
We had a lot of customers on Friday and sold a lot of merchandise/treasures!!!! It was so hot and humid - heat index in the upper 90's which made it miserable, but we made it - swollen hands and feet aside.
At 3 p.m., Ron and I drove to Belton to meet Chad and Garrison for the exchange of Garrison to spend the weekend with us!!!! He was excited about being in Clinton by himself and getting to sell lemonade and cookies at the garage sale on Saturday. We ate dinner at Freddy's then drove home. He slept with me (of course) and was so cute!!!! He snuggled up to me several times during the night which was just precious. When they both sleep with me, his Sissy sleeps in the middle next to me, so it was something new for him.
I got up early Saturday morning to take the signs to post for the sale. Ron brought Garrison, the lemonade stand and Garrison a little before 8 a.m. and left him there to begin his sales while he went to Methodist Men Breakfast at Golden Corral. Sales were a bit slow at first, but they picked up throughout the day. Ron came back around 9 a.m., but Garrison wanted to stay "and make more money, Grammy". He visited with Debbie and the customers, petted Sara Sue, visited with Maysie (the big dog in the pen) and had a blast. He was sooooooo cute. I offered several times throughout the day for him to go home with Grandpa to play, but he wanted to stay, and stayed until the bitter end - even through clean up!!!! He had such good time and made $35!!!! People were very sweet to him and generous. We saved Peyton cookies and lemonade, per her request. I think she had fun being an only child with her parents, shopping for and buying a new SUV for Mom!!!!
After an hour or so of playing and cleaning up, the 3 of us went to Davis R-12 School for their fried chicken dinner fundraiser. Garrison thought it was cool that Grandpa went to school there and liked his graduation picture on the wall of the school. We had a good evening - he took a shower and got ready for bed - and went to sleep very quickly, again sleeping with me and enjoying every minute of having all the attention!!!!
Sunday morning we all went to church. Garrison was good and had fun at the dedication of the "Ark" play area which was new at our church in the yard. We met the rest of the Todds at Dickey's BBQ for lunch since we were taking Garrison home and enjoyed a ride in Amanda's new midnight blue Audi Q5 - it was a smooth ride and very pretty.
Sunday evening we met with our Supper Club and had an enjoyable time at Pizza Glen for dinner and then at the Wallaces for ice cream and cookies. A fun time visiting with old friends.
Lots of wonderful family memories this week!!!! We are blessed.
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