Sticky and Sweet

I know it has been forever since we posted an actual post. I just have not been in the mood to blog lately. Nate started a post as soon as we got home but has not finished it yet. We might do a slide show of our trip with all the pictures but for now I just wanted to post some of the 4th.

We did the cotton candy booth so we didn't really have a 4th. Most people don't understand how much work really goes into the cotton candy booth. It is always the number one seller of the day and that means we are busy pretty much the entire day.

My family started doing cotton candy about 10 years ago as a way to earn a little extra income. We have all the supplies and have it figured out what works best. We have gone to several different fairs and events to do it and have had great success. We used to do it every year at the Huntsville town celebration until they realized that it was such a huge money maker that they reserved the right to have the cotton candy booth and would not let anyone else do it. Well, they did not want to do it this year so they called our family and asked if we would be interested in doing to. My parents asked us if we wanted to do it to make some money. Of course we accepted.

We started around 10:30 and pretty much went non stop till about 10 that night. We ran out of cones and had to go get some big baggies and start putting it in bags. We started with 50 pounds of sugar and ended up running to the store to get another 50 pounds. We used it all. It was a hectic day. It was sticky and by the end of the day we were covered in cotton.

The booth before we got slammed.

Nate was actually really good at spinning. It sometimes takes people a long time to get the hang of it but Nate picked it up really quick. He made some killer cones and the kids loved getting such a big cotton candy. It was so fun to see the kids take the first bite out of a cotton candy that was half their size.


Zoee and Gus were SO good the entire day. They just played around while we worked. Thanks to my brother and sister who helped so much with the kids. We couldn't have done it without them.



This was about half way through the day. We are all getting pretty tired. We were very sticky.

Mom giving Nate a pep talk to just keep going. We were almost done!

This is right at the end of the night. We were glad to finally call it a night.


It was a good day. It was a lot of work but we had a great time. Thanks so much for my family for their help.

Oh and in case you were wondering...we made 1651 and change. In just one day. Not too bad!

We are home.

Yay. We made it home today. We are all exhausted but we arrived in the sweltering 110 degree weather about 3:00 this afternoon. We hurried and unpacked, fed Gus, made dinner and ate before 6:00 so Nate could go to bed. He starts his 2am to noon shift tomorrow and I am SO NOT looking forward to it. Oh well. He went to bed and I bathed the kids and they are asleep now. Nate is sound asleep in the guest room and I am about to call it a night too.

Vacation was good. I will report about it later with pictures.
Goodnight.

ps. Thanks Mom and Dad for all you did for us!

Not much to report

I am still in Huntsville. It is good to be home. I have had some pretty lazy days up here and it has been nice. My mom and I went shopping last night and it was a lot of fun. We used to do that when I lived at home and it was nice to go again. We didn't leave the house till about 7:00 and we left the kids home. We only had a few hours of shopping but it was fun. I am meeting some of my very best friends for dinner tonight. The girls that I used to work with at the credit union. I am so excited to see them and catch up. I have missed them. I showed Kaylee how to make a quilt. (thanks to my mom in law for showing me) We have been working on that today and it is cute.

Nate seems to be doing ok without us. I am sure it is a nice vacation for him too.

Zoee is having the time of her life up here. I asked her yesterday if she was ready to go back to momma's house and she said NO. She said she wanted to stay at Popits house forever. I don't think that will be happening though. One of her ear tubes fell out the other day. She brought me a big clump of ear wax and inside was a little green tube. She told me that she got it out of the hole in her ear. It was kind of interesting to see.

Gus is doing good. He has another tooth. It is so cute to see those two little bottom teeth poking out. He looks more and more like a little boy each day.

I wanted to post some pics but I can not find the cord that you use to get the pictures off the camera and onto the computer. My parents computer is a little out dated and they do not have a card reader so I have to use the cable. I will post some if I can find it.

Not sure what the plan is for coming home. I thought about Monday but I am not sure. I might just stay up here longer. Who knows. It's so much cooler up here and it's nice to be away from the heat.

Happy Independance Day!

It was a good day.

12 hours standing on our feet, 100 pounds of sugar, 800ish cotton candy cones and 150 bags later, we made it.

Crap. We are tired!

Yeah!

We have a tooth!! I felt in Gus's mouth today and there is a tooth coming out of the gums. It wasn't there yesterday and must have just come in over night or something. Oh my little boy is getting so big!!

New do

Gus got his hair cut yesterday. It looks so cute and makes him look so much older. I was a little sad to cut off all his hair but it was time. Here are some before and afters.

Before

After

Doesn't he look so handsome?! I love this boy!

Oh and I got my hair colored today. I got purple instead of pink. I love it. I think this is my last time doing the color and then I am going to go back to boring old brown. What do you think?