.:saturday evening post:.

imagine this: posting on the day of the events i'm about to share. bizarre.

what a wonderful saturday we've had so far and it's not even over yet. it started off with a delish breakfast. comprised of homemade heart-shaped biscuits, gravy, yogurt, eggs, fruit cocktail and some jelly for our biscuits. quickly after breakfast we switched gears to continue our ongoing game of family poker. dave is teaching us all how to play.

at the breakfast table dave asked the girls (for no known reason to me...) what they would change their middle name to if they could change it to anything. chloe was the first to respond with a quick 'schaeperkoetter'. melted my heart yet again. ella wished to change her's to 'cinderella'- now that just melted my heart in a whole separate way. dollface.

we decided to take olive to the dog park as today was probably the most beautiful day of the year thus far. i'm sure the temperature didn't top 60 degrees, but nonetheless beautiful. on our way to the park dave gave us all nicknames. i loved this idea as i've practically begged my brother my whole life for a nickname only to be quickly reminded that nicknames aren't just given or made up, they're earned.

our nicknames:

lily = rax
chloe = frenchie

ella = rizzo

kristi bisti = lover

dave = punko

lily's nickname comes from one of dave and his dad's favorite restaurants (he's talking about the salad bar as i type this blog... oh and the chocolate pudding.)

chloe's nickname (i imagine) comes from grease... perhaps dave was feeling like danny zuko more so today than he usually is.

ella's nickname: see chloe's nickname

my nickname i want to credit brother brent for, however chloe came up with it this time.

dave's nickname was straight from the creative melon of ella. we thought it fit wonderfully.

oh, we did nickname olive, but didn't stray very far from her current bank of nicknames. we picked: pit.

we had a delightfully fun time at the dog park, there were many friendly people and friendly pups too. one of pit's favorite friends she met at the park today was hank. ella called him 'hey'. he too was a yorkshire terrier, but with a shorter haircut and a funny quirk. he only ran & walked in a counter clockwise direction. it's true! and it was huh-larious. thanks for the laugh, hank.

now we're home and the girls played their little hearts out with the favorite neighbors. we slurped down some clam chowder that dave had a brewin' in the ol' crock pot and now the chicks are watching happy feet before we make some chocolate chip cookies.

who knows how the schaeperkoetter hopes will wrap up their saturday night... but one thing's for sure: i can't wait to find out what it is.

xoxo kb.