Cheesing the Day

When Ashlee and Izzy come to town, we do fun things. The stated purpose of the trip is for Aunt Traci to talk to the new-off-to-junior-high-er about making good choices and being happy with who you are. But, to be honest, that conversation with both Alena and Isabel has been pretty short. If it really even happened at all. Let's put a positive spin on it and say I prefer to teach by example.

Our first stop on Saturday morning was the local library, for another one of Ashlee's famous library vacation shots. I purposefully saved some library books to return for the weekend she was here. You can see that Dally was just as pleased to be in this picture as Jason was to be taking it.

Next stop: Ikea. Where Dahlia got a new lamp, Izzy got a stuffed panda bear, and Ashlee and I both got new dish scrubbers. Then we all had lunch at the cafe. Best Swedish meatballs.

Then it was off to Newsies for Izzy, Ashlee and I, while Jason took Dahlia to a movie, so everyone was happy.

The new Hale Center Theater is really nice, and there's a lot more leg room than there was at the old theater. Plus, it's conveniently located up the street from my house. And they still do all their shows in the round. They did an awesome job with Newsies and we enjoyed every minute and did our very, VERY best not to sing along. But it was hard.

Then we went home and may or may not have put on our own show of fake YouTube teenyboppers video blogging about, who knows really. The most important thing is to start each sentence with "Hey guyzzzz" and be sure to constantly remind people to leave comments about how much they like your videos. I'm sure my neighbors, who could undoubtedly hear this outdoor production, now think I'm nuts. But oh well. When your best friends from middle school are in town, you get to act like you're in middle school. Or at least that's always been my rule. 

I'm sad I don't have pictures of the scones we had at my Dad's house or the crepes Jason made for us the next night (crepes because we also bought linden berries at Ikea and you pretty much have to have those on crepes immediately).  It was a fun couple of days. I wish they could have stayed longer. Although, my neighbors may not agree.