The Last Weekend Was a Blast...

We really had a lot of fun as a family this past weekend and even had a visitor on Monday.

Saturday morning Syd had swimming, then we went for bagels and came home and played outside all day. You may be thinking, this doesn't sound like a really cool weekend, but Saturday night we all went ice skating at BGSU's ice rink. We are all at very different levels of skating, which made it even more fun. Zack is very good at it, I'm not so good at it, and Syd is okay when she tries. We skated for a couple of hours and had some good laughs. Syd was doing pretty well with one of the walkers they have for kids (and adults), but then decided she didn't like it very much. So, she sat on the bench while Zack and I skated a bit. She seemed to have a really good time. We will definitely be going back. Sorry, no pictures... we only took video and the blog doesn't allow for that.

Sunday we played outside in the morning and then went to the BGSU Hockey Game at 2:00 - Syd's first. She seemed to really enjoy the game, especially with pizza, popcorn, Skittles, and water involved. She was very excited when they smashed up against the glass in front of us and cheered like a pro. Of course, she occasionally cheered for the other team, but we're working on that. We saw Freddie and Freda, BGSU's falcon mascots and Syd even got to meet Freda, though she wouldn't pose for a picture with her. There's a picture of Freda above.

Monday, our good friend Colleen came to visit. Syd adores Colleen and has even "drawn" her into some of our family pictures. She also makes things at school for Colleen. Colleen was with me when I picked Syd up from school, but as usual Syd played shy and hid behind me for the first few minutes. She's so crazy that way. Anyway, we had fun with Colleen. We went to PetSmart (or was it PetCo I get confused) where we saw cats, birds, fishes, and guinea pigs, TJMaxx where Syd found her dream shirt (this orange shirt with trees on it that says something about the outdoors - Syd fell in love with it and even chose it over a book about Lightening McQueen), Target where Colleen helped Syd pick out her Halloween Costume (a Firefighter), and Don Pablos (you can guess what we did here). It was a great end to a great weekend.

If anyone has any suggestions for Halloween type things to do on weekends, let us know. We're looking for some ideas to make the next few weekends cool as well.