Family free time, finally!

Today was a HOT, windy, gorgeous day...


This morning I had to go to Target to get...diapers! Gotta love spending money on that! I also got myself some of these...in both black and camo, not sure about the camo ones yet, they are a size smaller than the black ones and I wore the black ones today and they were sooooo comfy!

I also picked up some of these...in cream soda, berry lemonade and green apple, they are kinda fun!

So after target I had to get home to give Elliot his nap and get him all ready to go to EJ's while I went on a field trip!

Bailey's class had thier class picnic today, we walked to the park from school (not a long walk, but not right next door either), ate lunch together, played on the playground, did a few relay races and blew some bubbles, then ate ice cream sundae's then walked back to school. The walk back was way longer than the way there, the kids were tired and complaining about everything (God didn't grant me a lot of patience when it comes to complaining!). While at the picnic I had brought sunscreen and was putting it on anyone that asked, but in the chaos I forgot to put it on one important person...me! Keep in mind that I never used to burn, I could be white as winter, go to Florida, spend a day on the beach and get nicely brown... sometime during my pregnancy with number three the hormones changed and it only took about 5 minutes outside (sunny or cloudy, maybe even rainy) and I was lobster red, well I was hoping that would go away when Elliot was born, but no such luck! I am in soooo much pain right now, I have never ever been so red, it's almost purple!

Here are a few pics from the picnic...

For the first time in a very very long time we had no plans and no sports on an evening...so we decided to take advantage of it. We took the boat out for a ride, no fishing poles (which was very hard for Matt to do), just our family, life jackets and the boat. Keep in mind this boat isn't huge, it's not even big, but it's bigger than the fishing boat we had before. It's nothing super special, but we like it, it's perfect for fishing (which is the main reason we have a boat) and it doesn't take $100 or more to fill up the tank. This was Elliot's first boat ride and we weren't sure how he would do with the lifejacket on. He wasn't thrilled about the lifejacket at all, but once we started moving I think the noise and vibrations of the motor calmed him down and he almost zoned out. Then I fed him a bottle as we rode through the channel which made him real happy. It was so hard for him to sit with that jacket on so he prefered to lay, which is the top middle pic, I finally just laid him on the floor and he was so thrilled with that, except that he couldn't roll over! Anyway, it was so nice to get out with the fam, away from the things we have to do at home and I'm sure we will be going again soon!


After our boat trip I had to run to Target AGAIN to get new bike helmets for the kids, both of thiers were broken and I won't let them ride without them and since Landon rides to and from school he needed a helmet!

Now the kids are in bed, all is well, I'm resting so I can clean clean clean tomorow, we need a good deep clean around here, what a fun fun Friday that will be. Actually we are going out for dinner tomorow night with some friends (no kids...) and then a campfire and grilling with other friends Saturday, so that should be fun! Enjoy your memorial day weekend (I'm sure I'll be back before you know it, but just in case you aren't...)