Sometimes the sun does shine, my friends.

We have not had a whole Saturday together in ages. I'm not exaggerating. It's been since, like, August. Which is a whole other season ago.

I've been working every Saturday since we got back from Washington in August. I can describe my feelings about this in one word:

poo.

It wasn't too bad when the kids were home all day anyway, but now that they are gone so much, it is really horrible to be gone from them on the one day that we all get to do stuff together. Fun stuff.

But you do what you gotta do, right? I've done my share of supplimental income jobs, and I can tell you this most resent one at Macey's (the grocery store) has been my favorite. That doesn't mean I didn't feel elated when I turned in my two-week notice, however.

Ahhhh.....That's the sound of me in the evening, not working. Especially after a long crazy day of running around.

Today was an especially sunny day. Our early morning rehearsal was canceled. So we made plans. Big plans! Fancy plans! These plans were so gianormous that all my kids went straight to bed after the pancake and scrambled egg dinner I made for them at 7:30pm.

Here's a little of what we did:

First, we went to this crazy awesome place. Our Macey's was celebrating it's 10 year anniversary with 10 cent hot dogs, cotton candy, ice cream, free cake, balloons and bouncy jumpy things.


It was nuts. But we were only beginning.
Next we went to Cornbelly's.

We've gone for the last few years. It's sooo much fun.

Those are corn kernels.


Here we are, getting ready to go into the "3D fun house." Um...nice glasses.


Here we are, inside the "3D fun house."

It was psychedelic.

We had fun jumping.


We got ideas for our pumpkins:


We had fun on the hay ride (it was a little scarier this time):



Anna really enjoyed the princess playland:




We had duck races:


And we went in the "kiddie" corn maze. Those of you who know Elise will not be surprised that she collected discarded, dried ears of corn and their husks for a "project."

And this was at the end of the day. Can you tell? Nobody wanted to smile for pictures anymore. I wonder why?

It really was a wonderful day. Too many pictures, you say? Well, I will have you know that I could have posted 165 more pictures, if I really wanted to. See how considerate I am?

After we put the kids to bed, Jeremy and I watched the newest episodes of 30Rock and FlashForward on Hulu. Yes, the sun does shine, my friends. It's always up there in the sky. Sometimes clouds or excessive in-the-house-ness, hide it from our view. Especially this time of year.

So when the sun does come out, when time does permit, go outside and get all pink and rosy cheeked.

You'll be glad you did.