Procrastination makes for a great weekend!

Well even though we had known for several weeks that the Pinewood Derby was going to be this last Sunday we still put off getting that car done. Friday night we got to go out to dinner with our good friends Nick and Somi for a birthday dinner for Nick. The weather has finally gotten nice and so we had a great dinner down town and then had a really nice evening walk through town checking out some of the other sights in downtown Spokane. It was a lovely kid free evening. Thanks Chiacchia's! So the beginning of the weekend seems nice and wonderful right? Well, I will admit that the chaos came in place when I woke up Saturday morning with a crazy idea. As we are laying there in bed I say to Dan Hey I have an idea!!! instead of working on the car during the day we should prune the apple tree! And then not go to the lilac parade tonight so that we can work on the car tonight. He actually said yes to my wild idea.....Have you seen the apple tree? It has been overgrown by at least 10 years...no pruning!!! woopsie...so it took much longer and produced WAY more yard debris than I ever imagined. I also didn't think about what we were going to do with the debris!!! So as lunch passes and dinner grows closer I call on Nick for a truck and he generously lets us borrow his. At about 6pm we got the last branches cut but we all had to shower and then head over to the Brakes' house to get that dang Derby car done! So we halt the tree clean up and head out. Remember we hadn't even started the car..coming with a little block of pine...makes for a long night..mixed with paint fumes and good fellowship....we had tons of laughter! We did't finish until about 1am. it was frightening. So Saturday obviuosly got a little crazy but the real Chaos didn't hit until we woke Sunday morning. Rushed around getting everyone ready for church. Left church came home with fast food lunch where then we realized that BK forgot to put the chicken nuggets in the bag and Dan had to go back. Inhaled some food so that we could head outside to start getting the truck filled with debris so that we could get Nicks truck back...oh but wait Dan had to also touch up some paint on Spencers car and oops the paint dropped on the hardwood floor and splashed up dans front side from legs to head. Hurry along because we need to get going to the Girl Scout Bridging ceremony in 10 minutes....crap.....Sophia is having a total breakdown because she didn't go to bed until 1:15am the night before.....Neue did you get the truck finished loading?....with the FIRST load! Ahh...2:15 and Dan is back from the bridging so now all 3 of us adults are loading the truck. Finally got the second load off to the dump at about 4pm...when they close at 4:30. Oh and the weigh in at the derby is at 5pm...will Dan make it back home to pick up his family and get to the church on time? Ahhh...we were about 15 minutes late. Not too bad. But the night ended on an up with Spencers car doing great and we got Nicks truck back to him so that he could get to work Monday morning and all the yard debris is taken away! It was total chaos! But the kind of chaos that you can sit back and say...we are normal and have some good laughs over it!! Oh hey, we did learn that if you take yard debris to the dump after 3pm it is cheaper! Nice!