We survived this week!

My niece came up for a week long visit. We went to Magic Springs two days this week. In the picture, that's my niece at the front of the log ride. They rode the log ride 3 times in a row and I took picture of them every time they came around to this point. This is best one of three because they were making faces and hand signals in every one!! We had a good week though. Usually when these girls are together they spend most of their time making up dance routines, cheer routines or secret handshakes and I have to watch them constantly!! We picked up Al on Sunday and I didn't have to watch a single routine until Thursday! And we took her home on Friday after another trip to Magic Springs. I think my sister was a little jealous. She had to watch a few more performances than I did when my girls spent a week with her early this summer. (Na-nana boo-boo!!)

Here's another picture from MS. I have never noticed this little waterfall before, but it caught my eye this week. The sign in the background says "Watson Falls". Watson is my maiden, so that immediately got my attention, but when I read the small print, it said this flowerbed/waterfall was "in honor of Bob Watson, a treasured employee of Magic Springs", I just giggled. Bob Watson was my grandfather's name. This was not in memory of my grandfather, but the coincidence just tickled me!

I went to my parent's this weekend. Yesterday was my dad's birthday, and mom's is next week. We all went out to eat dinner with my sister and her family. Today I took my mom to Texarkana to buy a new miniblind for her living room. We spent all day over there shopping, or "looking" would probably best describe our excursion! I found out today that my mother likes to shop as much as I do--none at all!!! We made three stops and all we came home with was a blind and a lamp shade!! I almost got a new comforter set that was on sale at Penneys, but I talked myself out of pretty quickly. We were also looking for some last minute items that my sister needed for nephew before he leaves Monday for college. I couldn't believe how conjested the traffic was in that area. Since we moved to Sheridan 5 years ago, they have really built up the businesses on the north side of the interstate by the mall. I just thought traffic was bad before! Well, we (or I, the girls stayed with my sister) had a long day and now I'm very tired and sleepy. I should get much needed sleep tonight.