Sweatpants Saturday

The Saturday of Thanksgiving I had the clan over to my house and, based on all that we were stuffing into the weekend, titled the day 'Sweatpants Saturday.' I sent word out the week before that we would have brunch, lay low, play board games, work on a puzzle, look at picture albums, snack, have a soup supper and relax. And that's just what we did. Different groups went into town to shop, some waked the road and Rory lit a burn pile. It was a sunny, content day. And as you can see in these pictures, the board games we created were played over and over and over. Here all three were being played at the same time and we adults did nothing to orchestrate this! Rory actually came and got me while I was getting brunch ready and quietly said, "bring your camera. you have got to see what I just walked in to." There could have been no higher compliment given to these three, fun games.

We had egg bake, grapes and muffins. And then my Aunt Louie (my mom's sister) came for a few hours so she could see my brother and the rest of our family. Oh, and Uncle Mark was with us the whole weekend too (my dad's brother). I love that he was able to be with us.

These kids started racing Hex Bugs and barely were seen again. They named each Hex Bug and timed it's performance through the same course while racing against other bugs. Bugs were named: Killer Rose, Deep Ocean, SheKicks, Rookie Green, Orange Blades, Starry Night, Baby Blue and scores for each bug were written down on a sheet of paper. The kids were yelling and cheering for their bug and it was hilarious and rowdy. I have since played with Ivar a few times and this is a super fun game.

So that was Sweatpants Saturday. It was a good thing because the next morning we all got dressed up for church, family pictures, Alden's baptism and then a day at Annika's house. More on that tomorrow...