Saturday with LoLo!

We had lots of fun yesterday. Laurie came to visit us for the day. Josh was gone when she got here, and so Kelly and I got some time to catch up with her. Then she and I ran around the 'burg together. We went to Michael's, Wal-Mart and the Dollar Store. Oh...and Mercy House thrift store. Do we know how to party...or what????
Michelle was telling us she had started making some frig magnets with those clear craft stones. So...we decided to make some, too. We found big stones at the Dollar Store because they only had small ones at Michael's. We had fun working together on them. We each made 13 magnets! We tried making a bracelet with some silver elastic string and a string of shells Laurie found at Michael's. A lot of the shells' holes weren't made big enough for the string to go through....so my dear husband went out and got his drill. And there he was, sitting at the table, with his big fingers, holding a tiny, tiny shell, and trying to enlarge the holes for the strings. It worked on one. ONE. But he tried and tried. It was almost laughable how hard he was trying and how nothing was getting accomplished because his drill bit was just a bit too big to get into the hole. We kept telling him it was alright, but he was determined. Nope....the shells didn't work....but how lucky we are to have someone care about us so much.
Thanks for trying, honey.
All she needs to do is get a little thinner elastic string. No biggie.
Before Laurie left, we made homemade chocolate milk shakes. Mmmmm.
Then Laurie and I did something we love to do. We both share the piano bench, and she plays the tenor and bass, and I play the soprano and alto, and we play hymns. And laugh. And every once in awhile .....it even sounds like a hymn!
Good times with LoLo. Come again real soon, ok?



Oh...and another year of marriage is behind us...and another one, full of wonderful possibilities has begun.
Our 33rd anniversary was yesterday.
33 years??? How did that happen so fast?