IKEA

Today our family went to IKEA. We just went to look around for fun. It is a huge store. The top floor is rooms set up that you can look at and sit on all the couches and beds and stuff. The bottom floor is where all of the stuff is kept and where you can actually buy it. Also on the top floor is a Swedish restaurant. We had lunch there and I had swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and gravy. It is super good! Dad had some sort of fish with french fries. Caleb had chicken strips with french fries. Mom had the same thing I did. Dad and Caleb both got dessert too. Dad had a piece of an apple pie like thing and Caleb had a delicious chocolate mousse cake. I got to eat half of Caleb's cake because he could not finish it. Mom got some stuff for her Sunday school class to play with while we were there. I got a new bedspread that is a shiny brown with embroidered flowers on the top. The flowers are dark brown. It is almost a gold. It looks really cool with my periwinkle room. 

Blisters, Bruises, and Dancing

Friday night we had our youth group's annual ice skating trip. It was so much fun! Afterwards I found out that I had blisters on the sides of my feet and bruises on my ankles. Besides all of this I had shin splints. (fun...right?) It was well worth it though.

Saturday was my dance recital for tap. We danced to "Get me to the Church on Time" by Rosemary Clooney. The younger girls also preformed. They did "Friend like Me" from Aladin. It was so cute to watch them all try so hard to get it right. Our dance went really well and we all had a lot of fun. I am sad that classes are over now and that we won't have anything for the spring semester. It is probably good though, because then we will appreciate it more when it comes back.

Parodies and Video Taping

Today on the way home from Oak Forest, Caleb was playing the song "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Anyone who has heard this song knows that it never ends and is really slow. As soon as it started playing, I promptly said "Can we just have the Tim Hawkins version?". Tim Hawkins, who is a comedian, wrote a one verse version. It is "The story lives on of the boat she went down and the people all died...bummer." It goes to the same tune and has all the major points, but it is much shorter. :)

One of our good friends asked me and Caleb to video tape one of her classes for her website. It was a C.S.I (crime scene investigation) class. They are extremely interesting so I did not mind. This is the reason we were in Oak Forest. I never knew that video taping was so much work! I was just using a portable camera. Thankfully, there were two sessions of the same class so we got a second try. I had to get the right angles and figure out which information was important and what was not. I have not watched any of the videos yet, but I am a little scared to.