Weekend festivities

Saturday afternoon Miss M and I packed up and drove to our friend, Alicia's, house so we could have a slumber party. It was Miss M's first slumber party that wasn't at a family members house. 

Our neighbor/friend, Jill, was competing in a triathlon on Sunday and I wanted to watch and cheer her on. I thought it would be fun for Miss M to see the triathlon since she's always asking if I can find her a race. I have managed to find a race that Andrew can run with her in a stroller and then she can run a 50 yard dash.  I think she will love it since all she wants to do is run and have races around the house. 

Alicia live across the street from the swimming portion, the bike start/finish and just a short walk to the finish line. It was the perfect location. 

The girls and I all worked on making Jill a sign. I was going more for a "Go Jill Go" sign but the kids had other plans. So this is what our sign looked like. I warned Jill ahead of time so she knew not to look for much. 

Miss M had lots of questions as we saw hundreds of bikes go by and racers finish the race. It was fun to be apart of the triathlon community by being a spectator. It was so inspiring and makes me excited to not be pregnant anymore and get back to working out and riding my bike. I bought a new bike less than a year before Miss M was born and it has been ridden very few times since then due to what feels like perpetual pregnancies and sleep deprivation.

We met up with Jill's family who were cheering them on from a different location on the race course.  The girls had a dance party while we waited for her to cross the finish line.

After we got home from the race the kids and I burned some time outside to give Andrew ample space to work on his project. This weekends project was installing a new garbage disposal.

I have been looking at buying a new garbage disposal which runs around $200 but the installation for a garbage disposal is approximately $175. I was appalled that they want to charge essentially the same amount to install it as the thing costs. 

I was convinced I could put the thing in myself and in my pseudo-confidence I think I convinced Andrew he could install one too. I mean you can learn a lot from the Internet and watching YouTube videos. He did it! He installed my new garbage disposal with minimal cursing me (unless it was all in his head or while I was outside). It took approximately 2 hours but wouldn't have needed to take that long if he would have had the correct tools close by when he started or the tools Randy gave him would have stopped falling apart. 

He was pretty proud of himself. 

On to finding him a new project...