Hello

Bonjour readers and friends,
I realize that I have not posted in over 2 weeks and I have several reasons why.
First, I have taken up quite a few extra babysitting jobs the past couple weeks.
Second, my grandfather from the other side of the USA has taken a trip to visit us this past week. I am sad because today is his last day visiting us! : (
Third, I have been trying like crazy to finish my history book so the school year will officially be done!!! lol

I am going to share some BIG news with you all sometime soon I hope. I can't tell you just yet in case something goes wrong but I am praying it will work out.
I hope you have enough sense to eliminate some obvious things that are not my big news (like getting married or something crazy like that) but it is a big thing for me right now and I hope to share the news soon (a lot of hope in this paragraph huh?) lol

Well I will tell you some of the fun things we have done the last week;
Last Monday around 4:30ish, we got a call from my grandpa telling us he was finally in town! YEA!!!! He came over on Tuesday with my Aunt and cousins (he is staying at my aunt's house because she is the only relative with a guest bedroom) around 2:30 and the instant he was out of the car I ran like crazy to be the first to give him a hug! It sounds silly coming from a 17 year old but I do some crazy things OK. : )
We shared pictures and had snacks together and they stayed for dinner (we ordered Pad Thai and pizza for the kids... i had both hehehe).
They had to leave at about 7 because my aunt lives an hour away and my cousins had to get in bed for school the next morning.
My grandpa came back to our house in his truck on Wednesday morning and he had breakfast with us around 9am (my aunt works on Monday, Wednesday and Friday so he visited us on all these days last week). We left our house after cleaning and getting our stuff together and went to the chiropractor where my aunt works. We all had adjustments and then left to go to Costco. Now one thing I always like about Costco is the samples but for some reason they only had three (granola, Lipton diet drinks and some kind of noodle thingy) and I didn't really like any. We bought groceries for dinner and then came back to our house. We had chicken, mashed potatoes and Cole slaw for dinner. YUM! I like chicken a LOT! Grandpa had to get back to my aunts at about 7ish because I think we tired him out with our go-go lifestyle! LOL
On Thursday, nobody came to visit but my family went to a local museum. It was lots of fun. I will have to see if I have any good pics to share with ya later.
Friday, I went to babysit for Amy in the morning so I missed my grandpa (and pancake breakfast!) but when my dad came to pick me up from Amy's EVERYONE (my family and grandpa) was in our van. I asked where we were going and my mom said garage sales! I said YAY!!! Let me tell you I find most of my clothes in clearance racks at Kohls or at garage sales. You get amazing deals (like my new American Eagle t-shirt for a quarter!)! I will post pics of all my new clothes soon.
Well anyways, we went to garage sales for almost 2 hours and then came home because my baby brother really needed a nap! Well he was very happy once he laid his precious head on his bed.
While baby was sleeping we shared more pictures and just talked and played games.
Saturday, grandpa went up north a bit to see a old friend of his so we didn't get to visit. So since we had free time, my mom, my brother and I took off for more garage sales! I got several good deals but no clothes in the morning. We came home so my mom could put baby to sleep and then just me and my parents went while my other siblings stayed home. After one dud (we call garage sales that have only junk duds or bobs... don't ask why... we just do) we hit a garage sale that had a lot of clothes my size. The one problem was that most of her skirts were short-skirts but two were longer so I bought those and I bought a really cute cami that will be nice for summer and it matches one of the skirts! The next sale had roller coaster tycoon for 25 cents so I bought that for my brother and me and the one after that had my American Eagle t-shirt and a sweater. We hit more sales after those but I didn't buy anything except a dress for a dollar.
Sunday, we went to church and sat with my aunt, uncle and grandpa (my cousins were in Sunday school). After church, we went out to eat at a cute Greek restaurant for lunch. I split a gyro with my mom and it was sooooo good! If you like Olga's you would love gyros (its not pronounced gyro but instead is pronounced yur-o)!
After that we went downtown and strolled a park and did a bit of window shopping. If we hadn't been so full, we might have bought ice cream but we were too full!
Monday, my grandpa came over for breakfast (we had scrambled eggs, hash browns and toast) and after breakfast we played Yahtzee. Surprisingly, I actually god a Yahtzee (if you don't know what a Yahtzee is, its when you roll 5 die and all of them are the same number... its really hard)!
Today, my grandpa is coming over for the last time at about 3 with my aunt and cousins.We will probably take lots of pictures so I am wearing one of my new shirts today.
Well I will post more later (and hopefully the BIG news)!

Blessings,
Butterfly