Sleepy Shoppers

Grandma and I did our best to shop them til they dropped ;)...and it worked! Just kidding :) But they were tuckered out after a trip out for new shoes, lunch and IKEA.

This is our little engineer at work again :) I had given them a cardboard tube to play with (Lia likes to call them her telescopes) and Ellie apparently confiscated it, and created a "hat", she called it. What a funny girl! (Maybe when she graduates from engineering, we'll use this photo on the front of the invite :)

Agh! Scarrryyyy.... (A prize from our favorite "claw" game at Walmart, I told you about before.)

I had to tell a funny that happened on our way pretty far to a fish fry at a friend's church last Friday. Something I often do with the girls is point out things I see when we're driving, and they tell me about things they see, just sort of to pass the time (and curb whining). So, Ellie tells us she sees two ferris wheels after I point out to look a certain way because the state fair is visible. I was pretty impressed, never ahving gone on one, that she knew the name. SO then, Lia says, from the other side of the car- I see some monkeys. Well you have to know, that Lia is prone to telling us she sees the cat in the tree in the backyard too, when we're sitting at our dining room table, and since we were on a highway, passing through the downtown of Phoenix, I was pretty sure I could pass her observation off as funny Lia. Well, then all of a sudden Ellie says I see monkeys too. Yeah...I had to look. There, in silouhette from the setting sun, were men working on this skeletal framwork of a mosque or something of the like , quite high up, and right off the highway. They did kind of look like monkeys... maybe we should listen to Lia more often ;)