while the parents are away....

sarah kate spent this weekend in folkston with my parents.  trey and i needed to do a few things around the house, but most importantly we wanted to drive to hickory, nc on saturday to pick up a sofa for the sunroom.  we figured that driving 3 and a half hours to pick up a piece of furniture and then hopping back in the car to drive back home would not be something sk would be dying to do. 

so i took her down to one of her favorite places....folkston.

my mom always gives me a play by play about all the fun they're having when we talk on the phone.    she had a blast of course!

she rode diamond.  she told me on the ride down there on thursday that she really wanted to ride papa's horses so i was glad she got a chance to do that!  her cousins, reagan and riley, were next door at fran's house so they all took a turn.  sk was very excited!

on friday, my mom took her to mrs. kim's new german restaurant by the train tracks for lunch.  sk has eaten there before and loved it.  it's right up her ally because they can sit outside and watch the trains pass AND she gets to eat a hotdog.  you know my pork girl loves a good hotdog!  on friday evenings my parents usually go down to jacksonville to eat so they took sarah kate to one of their favorite mexican restaurants at the towne center where sk could eat her favorite food.....a quesadilla.  she also got to ride the train around the towne center - another one of her favorite things to do in jax.

to top it off, they took her to one of her favorite places....

yobe.  sk loves yobe so much.  she gets vanilla with sprinkles everytime.  when my mom visits us in mt. pleasant, i often feel like she and sk should just take a sleeping bag and stay at yobe during her visit.  they are both a little obsessed.  and you can see in the above picture that in true mimi fashion she is teaching sk how to make sure she gets every last drop of her yogurt.  i remember her teaching brycie (our other icecream lover) that at a very young age and it seems that we felt the need to pass along this important info to sk.  turn it up!

what a friday she had: train watching, train riding, quesadilla eating, ice cream slurping, and some turtle watching at the pond at the towne center.  she also took a trip out to my dad's farm to see a bunch of brand new baby calves who happened to be frolicking right near the fence.  and they stopped by to see my gma kriner which i know sarah kate enjoyed.  we don't get to see her often, but sarah kate asks about her quite a bit.  aside from all of that i know she also rode the golf cart alot, dressed up alot, painted some, and made pink cupcakes.  my mom said that she broke the eggs herself and added all the ingredients so sk truly made them.  i know she enjoyed that especially since  she was obsessed with the book, pinkalicious, for quite a while.

meanwhile, trey and i got up early saturday morning to go get our sofa.  we had it picked out online and had called the furniture mart to tell them to hold it for us.  we could have had them ship it, but we really wanted to make sure it was "the one" so we went to see it in person knowing that if it wasn't "the one" that we'd surely find another one since hickory is the furniture mecca of the u.s.  it was totally worth the drive to hickory.  the money we saved by buying from the furniture mart is unbelievable.

we also ordered our rug this weekend and it should be ready for pick up in the next week and a half.  we got all but 4 of our blinds bought and hung.  we still have quite a few more things to do, but we are on our way to having our new room all set up!

still not positive about how we're going to arrange the furniture exactly.  we are doing one side of the room more of the adult/seating area and the other side the play area. i've got to pick out pillows for our sofa.  our rug is a "sprout" and ivory catamaran stripe.

looking in from our *messy* living room

we have these 4 windows left to put blinds on.

  and i'm a little over 32 weeks!  that means a little less than 8 weeks until we come face to face with our precious little busy body!!!  if fetal activity is any indication of baby behavior then we are really in for it with this one!  it certainly was an indication for sk.....barely moved in utero and has been the most cautious little girl ever.  best night sleeper ever, too....started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks and has ever since.  i told trey today that i'm pretty sure hayes is awake 90% of the day. ha!  we can't wait to meet her!

we took these pics as we were playing around with the blinds and moving the sofa & lamp all around=)

today was my last day teaching sunday school.  summer sunday school is taught on a volunteer basis so the teachers are not consistent like they are during the school year.  trey was my co-teacher today and i'll have to say it was an interesting way to end the year.....with NO kids!  i taught the older 3's this year and we always had a slim crowd.  the younger 3's always had at least 20 in their classroom and we would have 5 at the most.  funny how that works - lots of babies born after march that year!  so we cleaned out our sunday school closet and then went to cracker barrel in savannah to pick up our girl!

she was playing checkers with mimi when we arrived.

ever the elementary school teacher, mimi had her learning all about patterns.  "red, black, red, black, red, black..."

she had a blast with her mimi & papa, but she was in fact excited to see her mama and daddy, too!  that's good!!  when i walked up she said, "hey mom, you want to play checkers with me????"  

after lunch we parted ways but not for long.  we are so looking forward to our kriner family beach vacation which starts this coming saturday! yay!  sk can't wait to spend a week in the pool with ava and bryce=)

a big HUGE thank you to mimi and papa for taking such good care of our girl this weekend.  it made the things that we needed to get done a little bit easier and it also made sk very very happy.