Monday, July 7, 2008

Weekend 1

Wednesday started our long weekend off. (Brad finally has some time off from basketball camps, practices, FBLA, and drivers ed.) So, we headed to our friends Jarrard's neighborhood pool for swimming and a nice picnic lunch. Their daughter Sydney and Aidan are best buddies. They insist that they are boyfriend/girlfriend. It is to cute! Kate and Travis' younger daughter Addyson and our Brenna are a year apart and have fun playing as well. Carsyn is just along for the ride. :) Here is the the group of them...















Their pool has this awesome waterslide that the kids would not stop going on. I think the daddy's had just as fun running up the stairs and going down with the kids!




















Aidan and Brenna on their many times down the slide...





















Thanks Travis, Kate and girls for such a great afternoon. We will have to do again soon!

Later that evening we headed to my parents in South Carolina. I am sure you all have strategic traveling plans when traveling with children. Even though we have been blessed with wonderful travelers, lately our two oldest have been a bit, shall we say, a royal pain the the butt. Fighting with each other, not sleeping when they should be, going to the bathroom every hour (if you know Brad and I..we don't like to stop often....yeah we know that they have small bladders..but COME ON!) and not being entertained by anything. So our strategic plan was and is (even though my parents only live 4 hours from Atlanta) to either travel at bedtime, or in the early morning. So, we left around 8 pm and got to my parents in SC around midnight. This has worked great for our family. All 3 children were asleep (oh, 4 children, because we took the dog too). We just transfered them from their carseats to bed. We will see when our long trip comes up later this month! Should be interesting!


On Thursday was my dad's birthday. You can see that from my previous post. The kids helped my mom make the 4 layer chocolate cake. It was delicious! Here are the kids and my dad blowing out the candles.

1 comment:

Kate said...

Hey girl!
Can't wait to see you guys on Saturday!! We would see you every week if we could work it out!
The pictures are so cute!