Today some awesome things happened

Today we drove up to West Virginia so Lauren and Wil could sign the contract on their new town house. My dad drove so you should all be happy I'm still alive to blog about all of this. Mom and Lauren and I were bracing ourselves the entire time and also complaining out loud about how he shouldn't try to kill us, but I digress.

The drive is about 2 hours. Not too long really especially with the outlet mall on the way. When we got there we went straight to their house to check it out. It really is nice. I don't know what possessed them to put white carpet throughout (white carpet is never a good idea I don't care who you are) but other than that it was beautiful. My official room and bathroom will need to be finished, but they are there. There is also a big playroom on the first level with a door to the backyard. The second level has what Lauren will be using as a large family room, a nice kitchen with pretty new appliances and a dining room next to the kitchen (because not only is white carpet a bad idea, EATING over a white carpet with children under 4 is an extremely bad idea). There is also a sliding glass door so they can build a deck off the back of the house and a half bath. The top floor has all the bedrooms and the laundry. The absolute best feature is the windows. They are big and plentiful and make the house seem so much bigger.

While Lauren and Wil signed their mountain of papers, Mom and dad and I looked around the model home getting ideas and playing with all the fake stuff. Also, reading through this Panera Bread cook book (which I will own, hopefully in the near future). We were starving. The cook book and the fake food were taunting us. Obviously mom and I took pictures of us "drinking beer" and "playing poker." What better activities for a Sunday afternoon? Eventually we left the model home to head back to Maryland. We stopped for food (bc it was necessary) and embarked on one of the funniest drives I have been on in a very long time. I was laughing so hard toward the end that every part of my body hurt. Of course none of the things that made us laugh so much will ever be funny to anyone else so I won't bore you with the nonsense.

And now tomorrow I am off to the beach. Heading down to Chincoteague to babysit for a week. I've never been down there and I only know the lady I'm working for so I'm a little nervous not knowing the whole situation, but I'm sure it will be fun. I'm over preparing (as I often do) and packing a big box of things to do just in cases. And if all else fails, I'll trek the kids to wal-mart and let them run around like crazy ragamuffins.