Happy Days

Day Twenty One- A picture of something that made you happy this week.

I could so easily follow the rules, post one picture, and fulfill my assignment, but lots of things made me happy this week and I can't pick one. Here are a few, some with and some without pictures.

First of all, Seth was supposed to be working in Ohio this week and his trip got postponed. Yes, he will still have to go, but this week we got to keep him and that got my week off to a happy start.

The kids had a half day on Friday and that made me happy. We went to the Children's Museum in Illinois for our half day field trip. I know I have showed you pics from there a dozen times so I will just show you their painted faces.

And the hatching of the chicks. We watched one little chicken try to to hatch all day long. In this first shot, you can see a newly hatched chick and just the littlest crack in that egg next to him.

Making progress...eggshells falling to the ground.

This is what was going on when the museum closed and we had to leave. The chick was moving around and that whole gap would move back and forth as his little feathers would flap against it. I wish we could have stayed and watched him emerge.

While we were watching the chickens, Alyssa said it was amazing and was making her think of Emily (Seth's sister) who was having a baby at the very same time. A cute new nephew is another thing that made us happy this week. You can find Emily's blog on my sidebar (The Hunsaker Home) and see the new munchkin.

Actually, back track....me and Chloe also went to another Children's Museum (in Milwaukee) earlier in the week with Jen and Violet. More happiness. Two fun filled museum days for free, since I have the annual pass. Violet refused to get in a picture with Chloe, but I promise she was there.

A fun filled Saturday with my family made me happy. We started out at the local museum. Our week was very museum-y but there was a reason for going to this one. They are currently displaying a few pieces of art from each school in the district and we got a note informing us that Alex's was one of them. Here is, in Alex's words...Buzz Lightyear as a bird, being chased by Zurg.

Some of the students have MAD talent and the exhibit will be up until April 25th. Remember the local museum is free, so it is always a good place to go in the cold.

After we checked out Al's art we were driving aimlessly and decided to go up to Milwaukee for the day. We just cruised around downtown and then headed over to the mall. We ate yummy food at Maggiano's, and hung out in Barnes and Noble. Good food and book shopping= SO HAPPY!

I picked out a few books. Seth kept asking if I was sure I wanted to buy new books right now and I am sure I was looking at him like he had lost it. Buying books could never make me anything but happy. But when we were ready to go there was a huge line and Chloe threw a massive fit because she wanted to find books about bunnies and stay all day. She was causing quite a scene and I finally put the books back and told Seth I would go get them another day. He was very happy, because he REALLY didn't want me to buy new books right now. Why? Because he had secretly already picked out my Mother's Day present and this is what I got....

Yes, it is early, but he wanted me to get my new books on the Kindle so that I could try it out, and he knew if he waited I would go buy them at the bookstore. A great Mother's Day present a month early...that made me happy too. I have actually been fighting the Kindle. I am in love with paper books and I hate to think of them dying out. I like the feel and the smell of books. I like to turn the pages and I like to be able to see how much I have read and how much I still have left to read. I am kind of a dork, but I have a hard time adjusting to change, especially when I see something I love becoming obsolete. My brother and sister both got the Kindle a few months ago and have been trying to sell me on it, and I finally decided that it would be REALLY cool to be able to carry a whole bookshelf full of books around at all times. I am sure I will always love paper books best, but I am excited about my new toy. And you know who else is excited? Alyssa. She told me that she WILL be asking for one for Christmas because it is perfect for a girl like her because it combines her two favorite things in the world...books and technology. That solves the dog issue for next Christmas.

And as if that were not enough happiness, there is more. Here are my girls after church today.

My daughters and their dolls all in matching outfits ($12 a Marshall's) makes me happy, but look closer. What do you see? Or shall I say, what don't you see?

COATS! It was 85 degrees today. It will go back to 40 tomorrow, but today it was warm. We don't even see 85 too often in the summer. Everyone was outdoors, loving it. Yes, the freakish blast of warm air is considered tornado weather, but I was still so happy to be outdoors. After church we decided to go walk by Lake Michigan, or Lake Mexican as Alex thinks it's called. It was only 68 degrees at the lake. Still warm, but just one mile west it was 85. Strange, right? But happy!

We walked on the rocks and Alex left his tag on the landscape. Kidding, but apparently some other Alex did.

After the Lake we stopped by a park on the way home (where it was once again 85 degrees but SUPER windy). Seth never takes the camera and gets a picture of me, but he couldn't resist snapping one of me making a fool of myself on the baby merry go round. I was very dizzy after my ride, but still happy.

And those are a few of the things that made me happy this week. How about you? What had you smiling this week?