Adventures in La La Land

1. Last weekend, my sweet cousins invited me to join them for a night away to celebrate Esther's birthday. So we piled into my van and headed down south to Flora, Indiana where we stayed at a working alpaca farm . Lol. We rented out their 1850s-esque cabin that has modern conveniences like electricity and running water, thank goodness. And we had so.much.fun.  We happened to be there on "shearing day." As you can see from the above pictures, it was necessary! Haha. The guy on the left hadn't been sheared yet in this one, but the one on the right had. We watched a bit of the shearing, then got an unusual lesson in their unscientific method of finding out whether or not the females are pregnant. Apparently they'd been bred recently, and in order to find out if they're pregnant, they put one female in a pen with one male. If she lets the male mount her, that means she's not pregnant. If he tries and she spits at him, that means she is. We definitely got more ...

You're being treated to an early edition of the Saturday 7, because I'm leaving bright and early tomorrow morning for a girls' weekend! Stay tuned for more details next week.  1. We had a nice, low-key mother's day. Justin and the kids got me beautiful flowers and candy. We had lunch with my family and dinner with his, and celebrated Lucy while we were at it.  Levi made me some handprint art at school and wrapped it in this wrapping paper he designed/colored. Lena made me a couple sweet bookmarks. 2. Last Saturday, Justin and I went to bed at the same time, which is a rarity for us. I looked at the clock as we lay down and noticed it was 12:01. At 12:07 he started snoring. How is that even possible? I hadn't made it out of phase one of my patented six-step-rotisserie-sleep-system yet!  On my back with my arm over my head   On my left side with my right knee pulled into my chest On my left side with both knees pulled into my chest  On my stomach facing my le...