the weekend re-cap

Friday
was my bi-weekly trip to Trader Joe's
I invited Ms. Maria to tag along with me but she had already finished her grocery shopping. She did, however, offer to watch L and T so I could go alone and not have to worry about anything except how loud I wanted to play my music in the car. What a doll! So Lauren and Tyler got to have TWO play-dates with Lea.

After I came back from TJs and after Ms. Maria fed the kids lunch (did I mention she's a doll!?) the 3 musketeers came over to our house for an afternoon of continued fun. At one point they all became quiet...and stayed quiet for an alarming period of time. Of course I ran upstairs to check on them and they were playing "sleeping in the water." Lauren's bedroom was the swimming pool and they were all sleeping. What an awesome game! I will definitely encourage more of that!! lol.
Friday night
Matt and I had Morgan come over to sit with the kids while we went out on a date. I thought it was going to be just a date but it turned into a double date with another couple. Even though Matt is a stellar single date to have the double date turned out to be a lot of fun too.

Saturday
Matt worked hard to gain "favorite parent" points with the kids. He played airplane, horsey, took the kids to the pool and then let them lunch at CFA (local speak for Chick-Fil-A.) He even let them eat inside and play in the playland. While he was being the perfect Daddy I got my hair done.

Saturday Night
we went to our friends' house for a grill-out. I offered to bring ground-turkey burgers to cook-up but of course I left the prepared burgers in my fridge. We only live about 4 miles apart from each other so I could have gone back home to get them but due to some damage to water pipes caused by *OSU* beavers (*well the OSU part was omitted but I blame them anyway*) the road between our houses is torn up and there is a "way out of our way" detour set up. So I didn't go get them and luckily our non-ground-turkey eating hosts had enough ground beef patties for all of us.

We all had a fun time...especially the kiddos. One of the coolest parts of the night was finding out that D & S went to high-school with RONNIE from the current season of Big Brother!! He was a couple years younger but was still in one of their HS yearbooks. They showed me his 10th grade photo and OMGosh it was so ...Ronnie. (I get excited over the STUPIDEST stuff sometimes...my apologies.)

The tastiest part of the evening was this Decadent Peanut Butter Pie Susan made. I consider that tasty pie a challange to me to make something comparable when we have them over for the next grill-out.

Sunday

Matt proved that he's addicted to his remote-control race car. He loaded up his lean green little racing machine ...and the kids with their Tonka's and headed back down to his home away from home. The VRP racing track.

He says he's getting pretty good at navigating the track. (which he tells me is difficult because when the car is coming toward you the controls are seemingly reversed...or something like that.)

Judging by how dirty the kids were when they came home I'm going to say they had a ton of fun too.

While the kids were gone I started packing for our trip to Florida next week. We leave tomorrow for Fernandina Beach (Amelia Island) for 2 days and then head down for the Farm to Fuel Conference in Orlando. This is the same conference/resort we went to last year when Uncle Kevin and Aunt Mili accompanyied us. I'm looking forward to this little vacation because in 2 weeks Lauren starts school as a big Kindergartener and Tyler begins his 2 day a week 3-year-old pre-school...and then all (or most of) my little vacays are over for the school year.