is GOODWILL…  or GW Fashions as we use to call it in college.  :)  I don’t make it there often, sadly, and my hubby has somewhat of the opposite feeling towards it.  Can you believe he would actually drop off our old stuff there and not even go in?? A travesty, I tell you.

So earlier this week, we decided to just donate the rest of Haylee’s clothes (infant to size 6) instead of trying to consign them.  I had listed them all on facebook and sold quite a bit, but the remains have been staring at me and I was SO READY to get these boxes out of here. It was actually quite the huge project from the very beginning, getting all the boxes down, going through everything and repacking the marked rubbermaid boxes with only boy clothes.  I hope to eventually have a place for the rubbermaid box in the closet or something, and as the baby outgrows clothes they can be easily placed back in the box. Sounds easy, right?

So after ALL the work (blood, sweat, and tears) I had already put into this project I was ready to be done with it, but those of you that know my husband at all know that he is ALL ABOUT getting a tax credit for any and all donations.  Okay, that’s fine, but in order to do that, we have to take inventory and do other ridiculous things that seem retarded especially when I am ready for the said junk to just be out of the house already!

So he agreed to man the inventory task alone, though Haylee was his sorter, and I inadvertently kept getting sucked into the process… much against my will.  :)

During the process, Wade found an infant sized hat that he managed to wedge on his own big head all by himself.  This combined with his 3D glasses were just too much for the rest of us. 

You can see the piles going on behind him…

He spent most of the morning hopping over all the piles.  :)

Later that day at GW, we all found our own treasure… except for Chris, of course, who boycotts the process but somewhat willingly pushes the buggy.

Wade found a guitar which he LOVES!!! 

It actually works too once we got it home and put batteries in it.  He has always been infatuated with Haylee’s guitars and will often stop what he’s doing and suddenly say “I need my guitar” when he hears music or when people are singing.  :)

As we were walking to check out with it, he was cracking us up going to town on it.  He was singing from a commercial they had just watched before we left, “Zoo Pals, Zoo Pals” then he would say, “Let’s sing all together!” 

Haylee was just too old for her seven years… She combed through the racks pulling out things excitedly and bringing them to me.  She was even more thrilled trying them on in the dressing room. Here she is modeling of her new pieces…  :)

I was looking for a basket to put extra reading books in for Haylee and found this green tote!  I think it will be perfect…

There also were a ton of good books this time too.  I had to be picky in order not to spend too much!  Usually it’s slim pickings to find a rare good one among a bunch of blah ones.

I was especially stoked to score these two large hardcover books…

They are kind of like coffee table books with tons of large glossy pictures.  Haylee was excited about the horse book.  It has pages and pages of different horse breeds with all kinds of interesting facts about them. 

I also picked up a few things for Baby Davis, so all in all I think it was a very profitable visit!