Weekend Wrap-Up

What a great {busy} weekend.

Let's start with Thursday, shall we? It's my favorite day of the week, after all.

Thursday we celebrated a friend's birthday up at The Miracle League. Not surprisingly, nearly the entire neighborhood was able to make it to the party! We joked that Kent would need to wear a name tag for some of the neighbor guys to even be able to recognize him- it's been that long since he's been able to hang out with them.  Needless to say a good time was had by all!

Friday, we took some patriotic pictures.

You can see some less goofy ones here.

Then we had lunch with my fam- grilled burgers, brats and all the tried and true favorite side dishes and homemade ice cream.  A perfect All-American meal!

This one almost never wears a shirt.  All.summer.long

When we got home I made some red, white and blue drinks for Kael and Kylee.  So thankful for other people's creativity.

Later on Friday we went to Aunt Chris's house for a fun filled evening of swimming, sliding and one of the most enjoyable volleyball games I've ever participated in. :) My only regret is that I didn't get any pictures! I borrowed this one from Ben and Chantelle.  So cute!

Saturday morning we headed up to Sheffield for a family reunion/anniversary celebration.  All of my grandma's side of the family was there- I think there were about 80 of us! We had a carnival for the little kids, family pictures, lots of food and even a little swimming in the pond.  The weather was awesome and it was great to see all the extended family that we don't see nearly enough of!

Not sure why Kent looks confused in this picture...he has a knack for inadvertently photo bombing our family pictures.

Saturday evening a family from our baseball team stopped by and ended up hanging out for a few hours.  The kids all had fun together and it was nice to talk to them outside of the ball park!

Sunday morning we had nursery duty at church where Kael and Kylee were beside themselves with excitement that they were allowed to help.  (Our church's children's groups don't meet during the summer so Kael and Kylee needed to come in with us).

Then we went to Huston's first birthday party! Can you even believe he's one already? Walking, talking, even?! Tam had the place decorated so nicely and we had the best time.  Dying at his tuxedo bib!! He was so sweet about eating his cake and opening his presents so carefully and he didn't even mind his cousins stealing playing with his brand new toys.  ;)

The sisters with the baby boys. 

Sunday afternoon was another All Stars game, then Kent's parents took the kids (all three) for a sleepover.  This is one of the very few times that Kase has stayed overnight without us.  I am sure he's having a great time! Plus, Kent and I got to go out for dinner and even checked out a new brewery in town.

Here's to a great week!