This was my "favorite" weekend... if I had to classify all the weekends of the past few weeks or months this would rank as a fav! Friday evening we had a benefit dance at school for Patrick, Amanda, and Beckett that was a smashing success! Afterward we went out for a quick dinner and then, upon Lily's request, played LOTS of Wii! In fact, the weekend was full of Wii show downs! Saturday was bad weather, so other than a little working at school and lunch out, we were in for the day! We hunkered down with a movie and napping and Wii playing fun! It was the most relaxing day!
We also found time for the project you see above! My sister, Sarah, sends Lily post cards from all her travels! We decided to get a map and keep track of all the places we get post cards from! :-) This is a great way to learn about the US and where things are in our wonderful country! We have had a lot of conversations lately about "What country/state/city we live in." Lily used to say, "What world are we in?" when we passed through a town or city! She learns so quickly!
Speaking of Sarah... she made Lily and I matching approns (below) which we cooked in this weekend to get ready for our long awaited picnic! :-) Here you see Lily with the fruit kabobs she made! She picked the recipe out of her very own cookbook! We took them to the picnic and they were a big hit!
Here we are modeling our apporons... litterally! lol! Her daddy was behind the camera making us work it! :-) Sarah we LOVE the approns! Chris, you are a phenomenal photographer, but with subjects like these... I mean, what could you expect but great pictures! ;-)
By far, my favorite part of the weekend was the picnic! We started planning it a couple of weeks ago and it couldn't have worked out bettter! We met the Hutchings, Fletchers, Dillmans, Dodds, Kinneys, and Finnells at the park for a classic kite-flying, bike-riding, walk-taking, play-ground-playing, side-walk-chalk-drawing, bubble-blowing, hamburger-eating good time!
Lily and her sidewalk chalk! She is the artist!
And the men had fun being men!
Here are the girlie girls eating!
Baby Jack with Aunt La
Lily and Chris playing on the slides!
Lily playing tag with Robin and Melody!
Scott and his two girls, Robin and Melody!
What a climber!
FUN. FUn. Fun. fun.
3 comments:
I LOVE the map idea! I'm totally going to do that on places we visit--because we seem to travel all the time! Can't wait for Gavin to get a little older so we can work on it together!
thank you for the pictures! You two look great in your aprons, excellent models! (and photographer too of course!)
Put another postcard in the mail yesterday from Reno. It IS another world, lol! That is so precious that she calls it all that. Looks like tons of fun at the picnic. I'd love to do something like that with friends!
The picnic will go down as one of the best days/ideas ever!!! Like Web said, "Why had we not done this before?"
So thankful to have great friends to fellowship with :).
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