another wal-mart story...

what a busy weekend! we got our tax refund on friday (whoot, whoot) and went straight to lowes! being homeowners now means we actually have to mow, water, weed eat, maintain flower beds, etc. well we don't exactly have anything to do that with so... on the receipt at lowes you will find, multiple gardening tools for us and madison, a lawn mower, weed eater, and..... a play set for madison and allie!! i think we're all the most excited about that! i know madison is. she has been helping her daddy build it. unfortunately the weather hasn't really been cooperating with us. it's really windy and cold this weekend. but that hasn't stopped them. we'll be out all day today too, weather permitting. the best part (for me) about the trip to lowes is the price tag!! i know i'm so boring, anyway we got everything for what we thought we would spend on the play set alone, so i am thrilled (i'm already trying to figure out how to spend the extra money- i'm so bad)!! i will definitely have some pictures of the play set up as soon as it's done. you probably won't be able to see it due to the grass being so high:) just kidding-it's not that bad. i mean who wants to mow in this weather, we would much rather put up a play set in the wind and rain than mow-i mean seriously let's get our priorities straight right!!

payday was also friday which in evidently meant grocery shopping. ugh, no...double ugh that! we were going to all go and brave wal-mart during the day but since we decided to buy the play set instead of wait a little while, well we just had to get to that instead. that still didn't solve our grocery problem though so i decided it would be best if we just worked on it til dark and then i would go to the store by myself and have some me time (i know, me time at wal-mart? hey i take what i can get). well, i got to wal-mart at about 9:30ish and was there until about 11:00! remind me to never, ever, ever go to wal-mart that late again. i tend to ask you that a lot don't I? anyway, my thoughts were, it's late-there will be no one there and i can breeze through it in a jiffy. oh lesley grace... no that's when they stock. needless to say it took me twice as long as i thought since i had to find my way through the stocking maze. i was so exhausted at the end of it. as if it wasn't weird enough to be in wal-mart at 11:00 at night, there was one checkout open. oh.my.goodness! i had this exploding cart since i shop for two weeks at a time along with diapers, pullups, wipes, baby food, formula, and so on in addition to the "groceries". well, most people that go to wal-mart that late are usually there for the occasional "oh i'm out of milk" so they've got a couple of things. well, here comes lesley grace with her ginormous cart of groceries in the one checkout line. i could feel all the glaring eyes staring at me as i was checking out. i'm sure they thought they could get in and out too, oops! i apologized to this little lady behind me who had a few things herself and her comment to me was "it's okay-geez is that for a month?!" no, no it's not, just two weeks. at that point i just wanted to go home! i finally got checked out just in time to load groceries in the rain, yay! i called brandon and told him i would never be doing that again, i will brave the hundreds of wal-mart shoppers during the day from now on:) and so you have it, another wal-mart story. boy, my life is SO interesting:)
until next time....