Weekend Activities

Tyler is ready to go!

On Friday I hosted our impromptu play-date with Abigail and Isabella. Unbeknowst to them I also invited my neighbor Miss Maria and her 3-yr-old daughter Lea (pronounced LAY-a) to attend too. Unfortunately, Miss Claudine and Isabella weren't able to come but we managed to have a good time regardless. Please check out Claudine's latest post to get more information about a previous play-date of ours. And now back to the play-date: Our kids have all reached the age where they can play and play and play. So us parents got to talk and talk and talk, with minimal checking in going on. It was a lot of fun.

Abigail's Mom is a 911 operator and her husband is a policeman so of course she is a wealth of information regarding local news and happenings. I actually broke out a pen and took notes on some of the great suggestions she had. (i.e. Blue Ridge is the place to camp in Georgia, and City Cafe is a great place to eat in Fayetteville. What's not mentioned are the hilarious stories we hear from her job as a 911 operator. However, I do not feel it's my place to repeat any of those stories. [grin])

Saturday was Kylie's birthday party. (Kylie is a friend from Lauren's school.

She is in the pink pants, while Lauren is in the tan, hand-print-turkey-Thanksgiving-T-shirt she made at school...she is all about picking out her own outfits these days...and I LOVE IT.)

The kids are ready to Jump To It!

Tyler got to play too although...

it was during his nap time so he felt "anti-social" at times


Lauren, on the other hand, had a blast playing with her friends. Even better was the cake and presents in the party room.
Unfortunately there was cake and other Mommy's to talk to so Lauren's Mommy didn't get around to taking any more pictures.

That night we were invited to dinner at Matt and Kelli's house. Kelli is Mr. Mike's sister so Tera and Tyler were there as well. Mike and Kelli have 3 kids, Hayli, Cole, and Aaron. Lauren and Tyler LoVe to play with Cole and Aaron who are about their age.

Here they are watching some Igor movie. (they are EnThRaLlEd, but I have yet to see the movie and am skeptical.)

(l-r: Tyler, Cole, Lauren, Tera and baby Aaron is down below looking at the camera.)

After the kids lost their interest in the movie they headed up-stairs from the basement to hang out with us adults.

Daddy and Tyler enjoy a sucker.

Kelli and Cole enjoy some one-on-one time
Lauren, Tera and Tyler act goofy with suckers.
Lauren and Tyler play with baby Aaron under the bar stools. It was a fun night for all.

Sunday was a day to relax and get everything ready for the week to come. I made up the weekly menu (soon to be mentioned in a post) and Matt was kind enough to go grocery shopping for me since I was starting to feel a bit under the weather. More to come as soon as I can get it posted.....