We went to Last Chance Thrift Shop to find starting points for everyone's costumes. We did particularly well with Nikki and Ben. I found all I needed for the basics for their costumes. The search for Brock's vest was a complete bust and Office Jenny is going to involve a lot of sewing and alterations. 
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of the outfits I tried on for my costume was a royal blue tennis skirt and a blue, silk, tailored blouse. The tennis skirt BARELY covered my underwear. We were debating this VS a dress and talking to another guy who was looking for costume stuff. This older lady walks by and STARES at me and says, "That is a very unusual combination." The guys deadpans, "She needs something for church tomorrow." The lady sputtered and left speechless. We were laughing all morning...
of the outfits I tried on for my costume was a royal blue tennis skirt and a blue, silk, tailored blouse. The tennis skirt BARELY covered my underwear. We were debating this VS a dress and talking to another guy who was looking for costume stuff. This older lady walks by and STARES at me and says, "That is a very unusual combination." The guys deadpans, "She needs something for church tomorrow." The lady sputtered and left speechless. We were laughing all morning...Here is a picture of Nikki wearing the starting point for his costume. All I have to do is applique his hat, scallop the bottom of his shirt, and make a red scarf out of fleece. Rather than trying to buy pink boots, I boughts pink legwarmers and I will make a pink cover for the top of his sneakers - instant pink boots.
John Howell Park, again
It seems that we go to John Howell Park every Saturday! The kids really love it there and we appreciate sitting in the shade while they play.
Ben has learned to do the rings and monkey bars in the past couple of weeks. He went back and forth and back and forth until his hand were sore and his arms were exhausted. Nikki ran laps around the structure - up the rope ladder, through the tunnel, over the bridge, and down the slide.
After the park the kids headed to Parent's Night Out at Emory Presbyterian church while we decided to try the Vine. We got there before it opened so we walked across the street to check out the local bead shop, Atlanta Beads. It had a terrible selection and high prices, but I did find some beads to make a bracelet for Elle's birthday. (What kind of bead store doesn't carry japanese seed beads?)
Vine - 
Vine was good. The food (gnocci and home-made ravioli) was very, very good. The service was spotty. They forgot the olives for our appetizer, brought the wrong ice cream, and had NO decaf coffee! We might go back but it is still not our new Earle.
Vine was good. The food (gnocci and home-made ravioli) was very, very good. The service was spotty. They forgot the olives for our appetizer, brought the wrong ice cream, and had NO decaf coffee! We might go back but it is still not our new Earle. Sunday was another bout of house-cleaning while Ian took the kids to the park . After lunch Ben worked on his project. I made Elle's bracelet while Supervising Ben's project.
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Correction - the word is gnocchi. Gnocchi actually means knuckles in Italian. You an kind of see why the potato/flour pasta is called that. They do kind of look like white doughy knuckles. Or maybe someone was eating your amigurumi mushrooms when they thought up the name!
We make our own gnocchi from scratch. It's pretty easy. :-)
Joe
Really? I tried it once and had limited success... it is one of the few foods I leave to restaurants to do.
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