A Drop in the Bucket

Actually two drops in our bucket from our summer bucket list.

Yesterday afternoon found us here:




I used a different recipe than I ate in my Little Kristin days (and than I made a couple years ago). Powdered milk was featured in that recipe...this time I opted for powdered sugar. Yum! It was so good that I ate too much and felt sick the rest of the evening. The kids didn't feel icky but they sure didn't eat much dinner. Oops. I think it might've been worth it though:




















Then, this morning we met my mom down at our brand new IKEA.


It's only been open for a week and so it's still a mad house down there...bazillions of cops and IKEA employees directing traffic to the parking garage, showing you where to go in the parking garage, shepherding you through the doors and up the escalators. I had no idea it was as big as it is. The kids did fairly well through my mom's and my exploring. Even if the boys thought the main draw was the large fans blowing throughout the space. Each one seemed bigger to Easton and he was pretty sure it might blow him away Piglet-style and the kid sure wanted to find out. Each time.


They also had to check out every refrigerator in each kitchen mock-up...pressing each ice dispenser and opening the door 15 times each fridge. Looking inside each cabinet and drawer in case it was different than the last drawer in the last kitchen or even the last drawer on the other side of the sink.

Gotta keep them interested in organizing, though. Start 'em young.



I really want this craft paper roll holder/dispenser. $4.99. I didn't know where to buy it from, though. :) I'm new there.

Looking back at the pictures just now, the placement of this hand in the background sign made me chuckle:


Eventually we wound through the store enough to get to the kids area. The kids had fun crawling through the little mouse holes to get from one kid bedroom display to another:


And finally we got to some of their little toys and let the kids explore for quite awhile as they'd been pretty patient while Gramoo and I explored other more boring things.


At that point we'd been there a couple of hours and were ready for some lunch. Unfortunately so was everyone else in Colorado and the line was insane. Insane, I tell you. And not moving at all from the time we arrived to the time we finally located where the exact end of the line was. The kids were past hungry so we decided to scrap that idea and hit Red Robin down the road instead...the problem was, we still had to get through the whole downstairs path. And sometimes there were things Gramoo and I wanted to see. Mostly we cruised by it all with me hoping I could come back kid-less very very soon. Or leave my kids in the play area. But Autumn's not tall enough nor toilet trained enough. Or at all.

Eventually we found the cash registers, paid for our purchases and drove over to the Red Robin. We did it for Lauren. Red Robin is her favorite restaurant and we celebrate her birthday with her there every year. And today is her 21st birthday. But she's in Vegas instead. However, it just wouldn't feel right if I didn't eat Red Robin today. So we did. :) Then we came home.

The end.