Busy Weekend

We have had another marathon weekend.  Friday I was off work so I was off to go to the kids' school for cafeteria lunches.  Two of them.  I made a Wendy's run so they would have something different for lunch.  Abigail was first and we sat with 2 of her friends Colby and Danny.  Second lunch was with Emily and 2 of her friends, but we were quarantined to the opposite side of the cafeteria because we had "outside" food so we only got to sit with her friends the second half of lunch.  Haha! 
Friday night we had supper with Brandon's mom and the kids spent the night with her because Brandon and I both had to work Saturday.  Saturday after Brandon got home we turned around and went back to Charlotte for the Auto Show.  And no, I didn't take the camera there, so no pictures.  We left there and walked around downtown Charlotte and came across a Buffalo Wild Wings.  We stopped in for a late night supper.  We had seats right where Abigail could watch Ultimate fighting, a football game, and a Saw movie.  She somehow kept up with all 3 of the shows and would tell us when something exciting would happen.  She also informed me that the city had more tornadoes than out in the country where we live.  I have no idea where she heard this or even if it is true.  She was hoot that night for her adventure to the city.  It was like taking Ma Furr to the city, you get to see things in a different perspective. 

Sunday morning we went to church and left there and went to the Renaissance Festival.  The kids love it, but Brandon and I aren't really into it anymore.  We won tickets and that is really the only reason we made it this year.  Both of our girls "dressed" for the occasion and had fun.  I am always amazed at the stuff that can be purchased there.  This year for $20-30  you could have latex elf ears put onto the tops of your own ears and they would paint over to blend them in.  They looked awesome. but $20-30 bucks?!?  I mean really!!!  They also had a table of notepads and journals that had pieces of paper sewed into them.  Wow.  You could also pay $10 for a pint mason jar and put colored sand in it.   Nice.  I guess the camel ride for a family of 4 for $20 was a bargain, I don't know.  We did buy Abigail a belly dancer head piece with flowers on it and Emily got a huge feather ink pen.  We bought our normal Renaissance food-roasted corn, turkey leg, and pickle, but that was just about all we unloaded our money on.  Brandon made the comment that Denton Thresher's Reunion was his Renaissance Festival and there was something to actually look at there.  I am not big on that either.  I don't know what my "thing" is.  I guess I would rather someone give me a few hours for a Target, Kohls, and JCPenney trip...  Just think was those neat elf ears could buy me when I stacked my Penney's discount on my "Gold" Card!  I could get an entire outfit! 

Well I guess now we are going to gear up for Thanksgiving week.  There is so much to be thankful for.  We are healthy and have a roof over our heads.  We are so lucky to have a supportive family that helps us keep things moving forward.  Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Abigail fixing to take the jump



Their knight in shining armour. 
Isn't that cool-they had Chuck Taylor's during the Renaissance era? 



Abigail with her upside down headpiece...

Me and my 2 favorite "ladies"

Abigail at home in her belly dancer costume...

My Renaissance girl

Emily's 1st Concert-Thompson Square and Eli Young Band at the Fillmore

Here are a few pictures from last night show.  It was a wonderful acoustical performance by all of them.  Casey James, James Wesley, Eli Young Band, and Thompson Square. 

James Wesley

Thompson Square

Emily's 10th Birthday

We had a blast of a 3 day Holiday/Birthday weekend!  The kids were out of school Friday so I took off work. We scheduled her party for Saturday and had a few kids stay overnight.  I think we had about 35 people at the party and 6 girls spent the night with us. 3 of the girls are in Emily's class at school and the other 3 were siblings of one of the girls in her class.  Which ironically made 10 people overnight in the house for her 10th birthday!  We had BBQ and hotdogs and thankfully the weather was warm enough to send all the kids out on front porch for eating and all the guys seemed to stay out in the yard at the fire.  Even so we had a crowd of people stuffed in the house but it was worth it.   It made it hard to get around to spending time with everyone, but that is always the case when you have that many people around. 

The after party didn't end until 2 am when we finally got the 8 girls (ranging from 1st to 7th grade) to get calmed down enough to go to bed.  Brandon had told them that the Sasquach was outside and they had this thing where they kept running to the basement and screaming as they looked out into the blackness of the back yard.  The 7th grader got a creative idea to talk Julia into letting her borrow her camera phone to  take a picture so she tricked the younger ones and went and took a picture off the internet to use for scaring them.  So here it was 1 am and all these girls thought this thing was in the back yard.  I was thinking "this is just great-I'm trying to get them calmed down and Brandon is getting them riled up"  The 4 Bisson family girls are all about horror and scary stuff and mine are ok too, but I was worried about the other 2 girls and I eventually had to let them in on the internet picture part of the story.  So we all went to bed by 2 am or so and they were up between 8 and 8:30 am. YAY!  Haha!  But here again thank goodness the weather was good because by 10 am they were ready to go outside.  We went outside and did face painting and color hair spraying and they wanted to go see the animals so we walked over to the shop.  We fed the animals about 20 loaves of old bread and the kids got to see and feed the turkeys, goats, pigs, chickens, and horse.  Brandon ended up taking them down in the pasture to see a goat skeleton, he took them to the hay barn to gather grubs to go take to the chickens and then he went on a nature walk in the woods down by the creek.  It was like watching a teacher with his students-too cute!  They followed him around and listened to what he had to say.  Parents don't realize when they send there kids here that you will get science and nature lessons! 

All the parent were here by 12:30 to pick up their girls and by 1:30 we all were asleep here at the Burnette house.  The kids had a good 3 hour nap, I got 2 hours, and Brandon nodded off watching TV.  We decided it would be better to go get naps than to go out and go to Morrow Mountain or Dan Nicholas Park since we were all exhausted.  When we got our naps in we took Emily to her favorite restaurant, Sogos.  Then we took her to Wal-Mart and to Target to find some accessories for her Kindle that she got for her birthday.  Tomorrow is a big day too.  I am taking her to the Thompson Square and Eli Young Band concert tomorrow night and Brandon had to plan a movie night with Abigail.  They are going to go see Puss in Boots together that way she won't fill left out.  I had told Emily it was a standing room only concert (not a seated ticket venue) and Abigail kept telling Emily that she was going to a movie theater that had seats and Emily was going to have to stand all night.  It was too funny!  I have to say it has been one great weekend around here!  I am so thankful to have friends that took time to come celebrate with us. 

The Bisson sisters-what a handful!

Curtis Mountain 2011

We went to the mountains over the weekend with our friends.  Here are a few pictures from the weekend.  Weather was cold but we didn't let that stop us!