Project Shop Til You Drop.

Last weekend my sister and I surprised my mom with a weekend shopping excursion. We told her Thursday night that she needed to come home from work Friday and have an overnight bag packed and ready and wear some running shoes to comfort her feet while we did some serious shopping. We had a blast although it went way too fast and we didn't even make a dent in the shopping arena. We quickly learned that it could take months to do all the shopping and go all the places we wanted to go and we didn't even go more than 15 miles from home!! We started out on the plaza friday night, did shopping til the shops closed then went to Cheesecake for some dessert and drinks. We stayed at a hotel on the plaza that night (thanks to priceline) and then got up early and shopped all day Saturday at various places. My favorite purchase of the weekend was my new beach bag. SO cool and only $18.99. It has tons of pockets for easy access and is perfect for the beach. Love love love it. I will post a pic this weekend. My mom and sister bought one too - we couldn't resist! I should have bought a few more to have on hand for gifts, but oh well. I also got Shawn the best fathers day present ever - can't post about that yet though....overall it was an awesome weekend, I just wish it could have lasted for about a week or so - maybe next year!! It will definitely have to become a tradition. Austin even asked me a few days ago when I would need to go shopping all weekend so that he could stay home with dad again. He told me that dad lets him do things that I won't let him do and that makes dad special. Hmmm...gotta love him.
On to other events - no doctor visits this week again!! YIPEE! Things are looking good here at the Turner house. We are loving our lazy mornings this summer and have finally ventured to the pool 3 times this week. The kids are loving it. We are going on our first ever family vacation next weekend - we are headed to St. Louis to stay with our friends, the Husters. They also have 3 kids - so that makes 4 adults and 7 kids all 4 and under....should be a blast. I can't believe they really want us to stay at their house. I hope we are all friends by the time we leave. Seriously though, we can't wait to go. The kids are so excited to go on vacation (although I'm not sure they even know what that means). Then the next weekend we are off camping again with the whole Settle fam, then the next weekend Shawn and I are off on our OWN for a canoe trip!!! YIPEE!! And then July will be about over and we'll just head out to backpack shop and get the kids back in school. Ok, we'll still have a few weeks, but it seems like summer is just flying by. Tonight Shawn has headed out for the Holy Spirit Smoke Off (first annual). It's a smoke off up at our church where you get on teams and smoke a bunch of meat and win stuff or something. Really I have no clue what it is, a bunch of men planned it. I know that I'm suppose to be up there sometime tomorrow to eat with all the kids. I know that Shawn has been there since 7 tonight and they are suppose to cook all night (doesn't the meat just sit in the smoker? isn't that why they call it a smoker?). Anyway, Shawn is super excited to spend the weekend sitting around cooking meat, drinking beer and hangin' with the guys...I should say he just got a pretty good Fathers day weekend, huh? Can't wait for mothers day....
Hope you are having the time of your life!
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