Sew Fantastic Weekend

The end of April marked our annual trip to Chelan to visit Grandma and Grandpa C to sew the Thanksgiving table cloth.  This year Aunt Diane, Aunt Wendy and cousin Dawna were able to come join in the fun.  It was just a girls weekend so Ben stayed at home with Daddy and Kenzie and I headed out on a beautiful sunny Friday.  McKenzie was a great companion on the road, I thought she might be bored without Ben but she didn't even watch any shows she just wanted to pick out songs on the stereo and talk.


Friday was also a big day in McKenzie's life because she got her cast off her arm.  How ironic that we would go to Grandma and Grandpa C's four weeks to the day after she first jumped off the bunk bed.  She was very glad to have the cast off but her arm was very dry and itchy from being in the cast. She also didn't want to use her arm at all.  Nothing some lotion and motivational speaking couldn't help.  When McKenzie woke up on Saturday morning she told me she talked with her arm and told it to stop being lazy.  It must have listened because before breakfast she was lifting weights with Grandma.

We got started on the table cloth on Friday night and were able to finish up by mid morning on Saturday.  It was our quickest year yet but we have decided we need to recruit harder for people to write on the table cloth this year to ensure everyone is represented.

Aunt Diane, Dawna and Aunt Wendy slaving away.

Once the sewing was done we were free to enjoy the day and so we headed downtown Chelan to shop.  I usually don't go downtown shopping when I visit because taking both kids into stores with lots of knick knacks is not a good plan so this was a real treat for me.  McKenzie loved it too, you could tell I rarely take her in stores though, she wanted everything she saw.  I did let her pick out one thing and she thought about all the wonderful things she had seen and decided on a baby doll from the bookstore.  She would have bought this pink wheelbarrow had she thought she had any chance of convincing me she needed it.  It was pretty cute when she was in it!

McKenzie pretending she is auditioning for a role in the next Heidi movie.  She was picking balsamroot flowers on the hillside behind the house looking so adorable.

We had breakfast out at Blueberry Hill Farms on Sunday morning - always a favorite.  Who doesn't love a whip cream smiley face?

McKenzie with Grandma C and her sisters, Diane and Wendy.  We are so lucky to have so many great aunties in our lives!

Beautiful flowering tree with my favorite big sky in the the background.  Absolutely a perfect picture of Spring.