Oh what fun!

Saturday May 1st (Yes I'm actually posting about something that happened this month!) Ryan was gone all day because he and another youth leader took the 12-18 yr old boys and girls to Chicago for a temple trip for the day. That morning was the Lancaster City Wide garage sale, which is a pretty big deal around here. So I packed the kids in the van and took them to A&W to get ice cream! In hopes that they would be happy while I checked a few sales out. The first mistake I made was not getting 3 of the exact same things. I got ice cream cones for the girls cause I thought they could handle them with out making too big a mess and a root beer float for Logan. All Logan could see was the the girls were getting ice cream and he was being handed a cup! He REFUSED to even try it and the girls refused to trade. I wasn't going to make them, but it would have been nice if one of them would have. So we're about a block away from A&W with Logan screaming bloody murder cause it's just not fair when Kaitlyn says uh oh. REALLY, REALLY!!! My 4 yr old is the one that drops her cone all over herself?!? REALLY!! And not only once. I think in all about 3 or 4 different times that dang ice cream fell off the cone. In Kaitlyn's defense the ice cream was massively tall and I don't think there was ANY actually INSIDE the cone, just all piled up on top. This is supposed to be a KID cone! What kid could eat that and NOT make a mess? I stuck though and we did visit a few sales, but it didn't go any better after that. So we came home and had NAP TIME. Oh how I love nap time!
Towards the end of the day the kids were off playing by themselves. And it got really quiet. Usually this means I should RUN to were they are, not walk! However, it had been a long day and I was enjoying the quiet. Kaitlyn comes in to me and with the most excited voice says "Mom! I have a surprise for you! You have to come see this!" And half of the time the surprises are fun, but the other half, not so much. So I take a couple deep breathes and prepare for the worst. Cause honestly they have been WAY to quiet for way to long. Only a HUGE mess can result from this kind of behavior!
So she takes me into the master closet, which is were the construction from the flood is. And I find Logan and Emily happily playing in what used to be the chimney! I almost laughed they looked so funny! I even snapped a picture and sent it to Ryan on his phone. Too funny. Silly kids, a house full of toys and they play in the dirt. INSIDE, they play with the dirt. I couldn't get a great picture cause they were too busy playing to look at me, but here's what I got.





And Kaitlyn posed for me



The blue and white in the background is a bag of wipes they used to "mop" up the floor. Hahahaha.
After this we took a bath BEFORE dinner. Hahaha. Backwards from normal, but necessary! I took a really cute picture of Logan COVERED in dirt sitting in a clean tub full of bubbles. It was really cute, but it's on my phone. The rest of the night went really well.
And the next morning before Ryan and I woke up we hear Logan come downstairs and go strait to the dirt pile! We had to get a handle for the door so we could shut him out! He would play in there every day if we let him!