What a nice weekend!

We have had a really nice weekend. Friday, D came home a bit early and took care of the kids dinner so I could go to a Ladies Night Out event next door. He had a friend over from work so after Ladies Night Out I came home and sat and talked with them--- a very relaxing evening.

Saturday we decided it was time to venture to the glass museum in Tacoma. It's not really that it is a long trip; it's more that taking 3 rough little boys into a museum filled with glass takes a certain amount of courage. E had been bothering us to go so we bit the bullet and did it. Let me put everyone as ease before I talk about it--- we did not break anything. The security guards in each gallery were quite amused at E and G walking around with their hands in their pockets. In the gift shop we were looking around and heard a giant crash, enough to stop any parents heart but it wasn't one of ours ( of course ours couldn't stop saying "I didn't do it! I didn't do it!" which made the person who did it feel worse I'm sure). The museum has a Hot Shop where there are glassblowers working and you can sit and watch them make pieces. Once E and G got over the fact it was "so hot in here" they really enjoyed watching. No pics allowed in the museum so we took a few outside on the glass bridge. It is a bridge over the interstate connecting the History Museum to the Glass Museum and it has three large displays on it. One is a wall of different vases, one looks like giant sugar rock candy (or Walmart bags blowing in the wind if you're jaded), one you walk through like a tunnel and when you look up the ceiling is filled with all sizes and shapes of glass art (not the place to be standing during an earthquake--- on a bridge over the interstate with hundreds of pounds of glass suspended over your head). As we arrived on the other side of the glass bridge one of the electric trains that the city of Tacoma runs downtown was waiting at the stop so we decided to take the kids for a ride. They were thrilled. Even M recognized that this was something new and different.

The afternoon in Tacoma ended with a bit of shopping (2 stores, the kids were pretty tired) and a little stop at a place called "Hello, Cupcake" . Dinner was grilled while the kids played on the patio and the icing on the day was everyone sampling cupcakes after dinner. Red Velvet was the favorite followed closely by Carrot Cake, then coconut and chocolate came in last---- there is a first time for everything.

Today we will hang out at the house and do some planting and other jobs and try to rest up from springing forward (you all did remember to spring right?)

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

Love and hugs and go eat a cupcake,

B