July 9,2013

Weekend Recap

 

We picked up Skylar's friend, Lydia, stopped for Ice Cream, made a pit stop for some fireworks on Friday & then headed to the River.  We had planned on spending the entire weekend, relaxing in the sun on our boat & playing on the Jet Ski that hasn't ran in years that Creag just got up & running again. 

 

The rain & mud put a huge damper on our plans, though.  Friday night, we made the best of it in the muddy mess that the River was.  Creag put the Jet Ski in the water & took each of the kids for a short ride in the creek & then we grilled hot dogs for dinner.  After dinner, Creag & my Dad got the camp fire going & set off the fireworks that we had bought on the way down.  The kids did sparklers for awhile & then I swear, between 6 kids, they ate a whole bag of marshmallows making smores over the fire.  My brother showed up late that evening with his new girlfriend, Stephanie, Aaron & Aaron's girlfriend Lauren.  Shortly after we met, we headed back to our house for bed. 

 

Saturday morning, it rained pretty hard to make the mud even worse than it was the night before.  Creag tried out his new Remote Control Boat in the Creek for a bit.  That thing is no joke, it flies!  We had lunch up at my parents & then decided to pack up & head home.  The weather wasn't great, we were all getting antsy and we were running out of things to do. 

 

 

We stopped for Ice Cream AGAIN on the way home because Ice Cream makes everything better...  After we got home, we quickly unpacked & then took the kids to the movies.  We let Skylar & Lydia see the movie Epic by themselves, and the rest of us saw the Great & Powerful Oz.  After the movies, we stopped for a late dinner & headed home for bed.  We were all pretty beat.

 

Sunday, we had a big breakfast & we finally got some really good weather, so we headed to Silverlake for the day.  We spent a good 6 hours there and the kids had a blast.  They ran into quite a few kids they knew from school & a good Summer day in the sun was what all of us needed!

 

 

On Sunday night, we unfortunately had to take Sky, Hank & Wyatt back to their Dad & we came back home to this enormous pile of laundry that will probably take me the rest of the week to get caught up on!

 

 

Last night, Creag got the yard cut & I did some work in the flower beds.  It felt good to get something accomplished.  Tonight we're planning on hitting up the pool.  Hank starts football next week, 5 days a week, our pool time will be limited for awhile so we gotta stick it in where we can!