Bumpin' Along With the Burms: The Whole Day...

It is currently 7:45 a.m. Saturday morning, January 24th. Todd left for work an hour ago and won't be home for another 24 hours. This is the third Saturday he has worked this month. Saturdays that Todd works stink. They stink because Saturdays are family days and without him our family is not complete. We don't usually have much to do on Saturdays because I do our 'chore' shopping during the week and our children are still too young for all the sports that usually fill Saturday schedules. So, right now, at this moment our day is wide open...

All three children have been playing in amazing harmony for over 30 minutes in Elias' room. They are building and rebuilding Geo train tracks. Todd and I agree GeoTrax are the best toy investment we have ever made! We began collecting GeoTrax when Traeton was three years old and now he is 7 1/2 and still loves them. Even Addison is a GeoTrax fan. Traeton is usually the engineer who designs and builds the track while Addison and Elias wait patiently or sometimes not so patiently to run the trains.

Traeton had a teacher-in-service day yesterday, Friday, so we headed down to the National Western Stock Show. BeBee, Great Grandma Schilling, the children and myself spent a large chunk of the day exploring the grounds. We didn't do a rodeo this year, we are on the 'every other year plan' for rodeo attendance. This is because by time we sit through 1.5-2 hours of the rodeo the kids are beat. We wanted to take our time this year to see all the sheep, pigs, cows, horses, mules and donkeys we could!! What a rich experience for them!

We also spent a fair share of our time shopping the booths. Trae and Add had their money burning in their hands for that super special stock show toy. Traeton chose a whole weaponry set complete with rifle, pistols, handcuffs, bandit mask, and much, much more. After we got him outfitted he was feelin' like he could take on any 'Bad Guy' who would dare come his way.