Playin' with Dominoes

I know ya'll have been missin' me. It's been like 3 days since I last posted... :) I've been trying to get some stuff up for the last day, but I have been busy.

Yesterday Ben & Carly came over while Ryan worked, and Jennifer recovered from working :) (she works nights :) ) We had big plans to go to the park and I would run/walk while Ben & Carly rode their scooters. Well, unfortunately, the sidewalks leading to the park are rather rough, so Ben managed to fall pretty hard on the way there...so we went back home.

When we got there we all had bagels (that makes everything better) and Ben fell asleep on the couch while Carly and I played with Dominoes.

This is what Carly said was 'Queen Carly'. I have no idea...

Ben woke up and started his own Dominoes project. He was getting pretty frustrated, because he kept knocking them down accidently.

And what, you may ask, was Eli doing through all of this? Why, playing with the Dominoes container, of course!

Below are a bunch of videos we took. The first two were ones I did. I tried and tried to spell out Carly's name, but, like Ben, kept knocking them over. I don't have the patience Ben has, because I gave up...The videos are really short-like 2 seconds...so enjoy :)

BEN

ELI

This was Carly's. Hilarious.

Okay...these last two are my favorite. The first one is the begining of Ben's, then I caught the rest of it in the second video.

...it gets better...

I was laughing pretty hard by the end. Apparently we all have some work to do on our Domino creating techniques...

We had a fun afternoon of dominoes, making chicken noodle soup (Carly helped me make the 'made from scratch' noodles....YUM!) coloring, and watching some TV.

Ryan got back around 4:30, and offered to wait while I got the rental car. It worked out great, because I ended up running to the rental place-which, come to find out, was only 1 mile away. I didn't realize it was quite that close. I was a little disapointed that morning when I didn't get my walk/run in (can't wait until I can just write RUN instead of walk/run) so this worked out perfect. I ran .92 miles (wish I would have realized I was that close to a mile). I could have run the whole way there (2 more blocks) but I didn't want to be gasping for air when I got there.

I picked up my very red rental car and headed home. The car is okay. When I got in the seat was adjusted so low that I could barely see over the wheel. I was a little concerned...then Edgar informed me you can adjust that :) Now I can see perfectly.

I got home and ATE the soup we made (SO good!) and we played with Eli. After he went to bed I headed to the copy place and made 1400 copies. Literally. I had a bunch of stuff (0bviously) to copy for my classes that I teach. The stupid part of it all, was that I needed it all 3-hole punched...and...well...I was too scared to ask them for pre-3-hole punched paper...which they have...at no additional cost. They were really busy, and I didn't want to be a bother...so when I got home, I sat on the floor with my brand new 3-hole punch and punched paper for the rest of the evening. Fun times.

Today has been busy-I had my classes this morning, which makes the day so much busier it seems, but I think I'm done with all the 'busyness' of the day, and can just hang out with Eli (once he wakes up) and eat leftover chicken noodle soup for dinner.

And that is the end of my crazy long post. Hope your day is swell.