The Daily Hailey

I know, its hard to imagine that there is anything too much more exciting than breakfast out with the kids, but today has really been good so far!!

The plan was to go to the city this morning, and on our way there, we hit up the post office (after driving around for fifteen minutes waiting for it to open) to pick up our NEW PHONES!!

I won’t pretend the phones aren’t awesome. They really are. They’re an enormous step up from the 8h 4s we were rocking before. Before anyone judges, no, the issue isn’t that our phones were just old and we wanted new ones. Mine was requiring regular hard shut downs, the screen kept blacking out, apps were glitching constantly, it sucked. We now have fully operational phones, and yes, they are SO pretty. We love them. You can see it in my crazy “cheshire cat” face in the first picture.

We took the kids out to McDonalds for breakfast. When we do a family breakfast out, we usually try to go somewhere a bit nicer, but I realized the other day that the kids have never had breakfast there! I knew they’d like the pancakes, but especially the novelty of eating at a restaurant. We were right. They liked their food, and their chocolate milk. They were really well behaved too, which is always a treat for Brady and I! Once breakfast was done, we ventured over to the mall to find some basic cases for our new phones. We’re waiting for Lifeproof to release their cases for the new 6s so until then, we just both got clear silicone cases to give us at least a little bit of a buffer zone if they’re dropped. I am already considerably less afraid to use my phone, lol!

Our last stop was to Costco. I’ve been complaining recently that our dishwasher is caving and has some serious plug that we cannot find. We have finally come to terms with the fact that the pump is shot, and our dishwasher could overflow at any moment. So to Costco we went to buy the lovely stainless one they have on for such a good price. We were quite a sight, actually. We should have taken pictures. Dekker and Laela were in the cart with me and the rest of the stuff we bought, and Rowan was in his umbrella stroller, parked on top of the orange flat cart things that Brady had loaded up with the dishwasher. So if you can picture it, Ro was between the handle and the dishwasher, just tucked right in there really nicely. It was adorable. We often attract some attention at least, just having three young children. I’m sure it helps that they’re so cute, too. But today, we drew a LOT of attention with Ro like that. But truly, it was our only option, and it worked well.

Conveniently, the people parked beside us in the lot were leaving right as we got to our van, so Brady was able to sort of park the dishwasher in the extra space, so he could load it in the side door. Otherwise he would have had to pull the van out a bit and block traffic for a bit. Not the end of the world, but not a low pressure situation either. So glad it worked out that way!!

We dropped in to say a quick hello to my parents on the drive home, but as soon as we arrived at our house, the kids were ready to help with the dishwasher installation! Well, two out of three. Rowan is asleep. But the others are in there like crazy with their toy tools and the few real we’re comfortable with them playing with. Pleeeaaase kids, don’t scratch the screwdriver along the wall!!

Anytime we go to the city on a Saturday, we get home much later than we expect. Its usually past their bedtime. But today, we were home shortly after 1:00pm!! So there is lots of time left in the day, and I’m excited to fill it with the installation of a dishwasher that FINALLY works well, good food, setting up our phones, and maybe even some Dance Dance Revolution in the evening 🙂 Because we’re cool like that.

Its been such a good Saturday. And theres still lots of Saturday left!