Weekend Recap...

It's been a few days! My sister in law is still here, in fact, we just got home from watching a chick flick at the theatre. Bride Wars - very cute movie actually. I have no idea the last time that I went to a movie with another girl so it was really great to do something out of the ordinary yet have it be so... ordinary and dare I say? normal.

The last few days my body has been reminding me that this is still a very fresh emotional and physical wound but it's nice to be able to take my mind off of it by getting out of the house and doing things that I wouldn't normally do without the extra motivation that has been visiting for the last week. I was pretty excited that I seemed to be healing up really quickly but again, like times in the past after a couple good days, my body slips back. Like it's saying "hey, you glad to be back to normal? --- psych!!!" Well, at least I'm used to it. I will eventually have to heal up physically. Emotionally? With time, things will get better too but I'm not sure when since this just seems to be like a carousel ride... ups and downs, round and round... seeing the same thing over and over just from a slightly different vantage point each time.

Saturday, we took a drive out to the waterfalls that we visited during the train tour for Rylan's birthday. I was planning on taking some photos but down by the water it was pretty dark and we couldn't get across the river with the bridge that we had used in October because they swing it aside to keep it from getting damaged by logs when the water is raging. It's ok though, we took a few and then took a drive instead. It was a great little day that ended with this:... and with a cute movie and a bottle of wine.


Sunday, we braved the beautiful, chilly weather and we all went to the zoo. It's always nice to see the zoo in a different light than the normal hot summer days that we're used to. The African animals were all inside because of the weather but that was ok, it was getting cold and Rylan started having a rough time. Between too hot hot cocoa and falling down the stairs - as in flipping heels over head, straight as a board - he was done. We did get to enjoy the newer northwest display which the kids loved! So, here's a load of photos from the zoo. See if you can spot the other little exciting change...

Alrighty! Here's a closer shot of the exciting little change... just before we left for the zoo, auntie Lacey helped Karleigh pull her (technically) third tooth! So now she's missing a top and a bottom. The second bottom tooth is also very loose so it looks like it's going to be apple sauce instead of whole apples for a while! The tooth fairy decided to bring a Sacajawea dollar and an English pound this time. That tooth fairy is one smart cookie!

After we left the zoo we drove up to the rose garden to sneak a peek at the city as the sun was getting ready to set behind us. Why don't we do things like this when they're right in our backyard? Why is it that we always wait until we have guests to take in the local attractions? Maybe that should be another one of my resolutions! Look at what I'm missing out on!