Since Friday was a holiday, specifically a mail holiday, I decided to take the day off work. My whole job revolves around me getting payments in the mail to apply to the vendor's accounts and when the post office is closed, it makes it pretty hard for me to do anything, so I just stayed extra long on Thursday to make sure that I was all caught up, and took the day off on Friday. It was glorious yet all too short. I swear I think I am going to be extra productive since I'm home alone, but I never end up accomplishing even half of what I set out to do.
The first thing on my list after dropping Mason off at school was to stop by Target. I legitimately had a real list of things that I needed to get, though you might not know it from my Christmas aisle red cup photo. I know it might be hard to believe, but I was actually good and didn't buy any Christmas stuff... from the regular priced aisles, I did hit up the dollar spot though!
On Saturday, Mason's weekend ABA center called to say his therapist was sick and we opted to not get a sub and just spent the day together. Our niece had a soccer game at 9:45am, so we hit up Starbucks and then went to watch her game. I was one of THOSE people and wanted to get Mason a red cup of his own, but he doesn't drink any hot drinks, so I got him a cold drink (milk) in a hot cup. #highmaintenance . Of course I couldn't let our red cup twinning go undocumented, so I asked Seth to take some pictures of us and he KILLED IT. I don't give him enough credit but he is a pretty great Instagram husband. Sometimes he doesn't get the shot that I'm looking for, but this time he definitely did, so I have to give him a shout out for that (and if you look on my picture, he gave himself a shout out too LOL!).
I don't know about you guys, but I think Starbucks is killing it with their red cups this year. I love that there are so many different designs, though my wallet definitely doesn't because I seriously want to go every day and get a new design.
The rest of Saturday was spent at my sister in law's baby shower, with a trip to the mall with my other sister in law and nieces, and buying entirely too many Hanna Andersson Christmas pajamas for Mason.
Sunday was a day that I had been looking forward to for a while... well since I booked these tickets a couple months ago at least! I had heard of the Day Out with Thomas before but always thought it was too far away for us to go and Mason hadn't really been too in to Thomas before. Now he's ALL ABOUT Thomas, so we knew we had to go! Come Sunday morning, Mason was super excited. We didn't tell him ahead of time that we were going to see trains, so when we mentioned it, he was so excited. He already had Thomas and Percy but I bought Toby and James on Amazon since I figured that the prices at the event would be insane and I wanted to get him something. They arrived on Saturday and I hid them in my purse for later.
It took about an hour to get to the railroad station where the event was and it was actually really well set up. We had tickets for Thomas at 9am so we headed over there first and got in line.
The ride was a little disappointing as we basically drove in a straight line down a track for 10 minutes and then directly back to the station in 10 minutes for a total ride on Thomas of 20 minutes. I somehow expected it to be longer, but regardless, Mason was over the moon and that's all that matters.
After we got back to the station, we waited in line and took pictures with Thomas.
Around 9:50am, we headed over to see Percy. The ride on Percy was even shorter than Thomas, but was still equally as fun.
photo by Mason. we're still working on aim :)
After we got back to the station, we waited in line and took pictures with Thomas.
We had tickets to go see and ride on Percy at 10:10am and had some time to kill so we went to go look at all the other trains on display.
Overall, it was a great weekend and I'm definitely not ready for another week. I have big plans for next weekend and am already counting down the days!
