!! SCORE !!

My friend, Molly, facebooked me about a month ago asking me if I wanted to go to “The Woodbury, MN Garage Sales”.  I have heard many things about these garages sales and I couldn’t pass it up.  I said yes! 

Saying yes also meant that I would be leaving my baby girl for 24+ hours!  We would be leaving the night before and staying in a hotel so we wouldn’t have to drive in the morning.

This was the first time that I was away from Mallory for longer then just a couple of hours.

We left Wednesday night and stayed in a hotel room.  The hotel we were at was…um… rugged.  It kind of gave us the creeps.  Molly and I went to check out the pool and there were just guys in the pool area.  They were just sitting there drinking beer in their street clothes.  (I’m guessing they were a construction crew.)  We looked at the hot tub and there is an older gentleman in there and it looks as if he has either been drinking with the guys or has been in the hot tub a few too many hours!  I lean down to touch the pool water and hot tub guy says to us “The hot tub is much better!”  We left and never came back.

Molly, Holly and Me ready to hit the sales!

The garage sales were amazing!  So much fun!  So many!  I swear Molly told me there are over 800 garage sales going on at one time!  Molly did an awesome job of driving us around and getting us to so many!!  I can’t even begin to count – it was a lot!  Oh and it was raining!  I mean down pouring!!  I mean thundering!  Rain!  We were soaked!  But we were all on a mission to score big deals – rain wasn’t going to stop us!  We practically had to beg Molly to stop for lunch!!  : )

I took some pictures of the van a few hours in… we have so much room yet!  Our goal was to load the van full before we could come home.

Now we are talking!  Finally we got it full!  We can go home now. 

Mallory loves garage sales finds!  New toys!

Check out this swing set I scored!!  Yes, we totally had this in the van!

When we walked up to this house with the sing set I walked right up to and hesitated.  I really liked it!  But, did we have room for it?  Was it a really good deal?  Then Molly comes and says, Lynn- get this!!!  Mallory will love it!  It is such a good deal!  If you don’t get it I’m getting it!  Molly convinced me there was room in the van and I got it!  Now I can’t wait for it to stop raining and get warm so Miss Mallory and I can go outside and play!  : )

Little Red Wagon!  My sister-in-law wanted me to keep a look out for a radio flyer red metal wagon with a little rust.  I found one just as I was about to walk out of a sale.  I had just bought the swing set and didn’t know if we had room for a wagon.  Once again the girls convinced me that there was enough room.

Steph… you are going to have to fight for this now.  Jesse has his eye on it and thinks we could use a wagon around here.

Mallory playing with more new toys.  She has found the fridge and I wanted to get her some magnetic letters.  Score!  Found them at a garage sale!

More finds!  I think I am hooked.  I will be making this an annual thing – I’ll be back again next year!

This lady bug umbrella and the old navy water boots were too cute!  All I could see were photo opportunities screaming at me when I spotted them!

We ended our garage sailing adventure with a stop at Starbucks for a 50% off frappuccinos!  : )  We also decided that next year we need a trailer and it just so happens that I am married to someone with an enclosed trailer!!!  : )  Now I just need to learn to drive our truck with a trailer!  Hahaha! 

Oh and Mallory did awesome while I was gone!  Jesse also rocked with his special Mallory day!  I thought Mallory would be more excited to see me, but she just crawled over to me and then Maggie knocked her over and then she cried.  I was expecting her to start grunting and whining until she got in my arms and then giving me big snuggles… which is what she does when I’m only gone for an hour at the gym!  Silly baby!