On Friday night we went over to my parents’ house to make a scrapbook for Tom and Jerry of their family, pets, and home, so that when Matt and I travel to Ethiopia we have this to show them so they can get familiar with the people, animals, and places in their lives. (My mom thought of this great idea.) I know we could just have taken some snapshots, but this was also a fun family activity that got everyone involved and hopefully made them feel a part of the process. (Side note: before we travel we are allowed to send a soft photo album filled with pictures of just Matt and me so Tom and Jerry get to know our faces)
Matt and I holding up the cats’ page
My mom clearly trying to explain something to us (She was the only one who had scrap-booked before)
Jason and Michelle working away on their pages (which were awesome, we also did some pages for Baby A, I am pretty sure she will make her appearance before T&J)
My dad even got in on the action, he was our official circle cutter
We still have to do the pages for the nursery (that needs finished first), Matt’s sister, and me and Matt’s (yeah we forgot to take pics of ourselves).
On Saturday morning we got up bright and early to go garage sale shopping, there was a community garage sale, so we had high hopes. There were several garage sales, but most were extremely small and not much to choose from, we still managed to score some fun stuff.
A soft touch fire truck
Tiger xylophone
12 Pooh books for $1
Jackson getting concerned with why we keep coming home with toys
Matt playing with his hot wheels (yes we know that T&J could both be girls, but this boy wanted some hot wheels and I played with them as a child) Jackson was totally cool with the hot wheels until someone almost nailed him in the head with a flying car.
We also scored a gender neutral, tiny kid’s bike and I already caught Matt working on it