More pictures from vacation….at the arcade in Ocean Shores, eating ice cream, Linda & Scott bring the girls over for dinner and ping pong, family portrait on the porch. Thank God there was a washing machine there, we did our laundry right before we left so coming home all we had to do was put things away!

One of the blogs I read, The Gremlin Wrangler, has written a book (actually 2) called “Letters from you Friendly Cashier”. You can check out her post about it here, but it’s sure to entertain. She’s doing a giveaway for people who link to her blog, so I’m posting because of that but I’m also happy to write a little something for her since I enjoy reading her blog daily. The Letters from your Friendly Cashier section appear often and always have me laughing.

Check her out!

The weather isn’t ideal, it’s rainy and windy, but we’ve made the most of it and have been out enjoying the times when the rain lets up. We went bike riding again, took a dip in the hot tub and Nana and Papa made a tasty steak dinner (the picture of Carlos is him eating his favorite…salad!).
We brought the boys each a cheap kite to fly, they were different because instead of having tubing to make the frame, they were inflatable. Good idea, in theory. One of the kites didn’t hold air so it was a dud, one of the kites insisted on flying upside down so it was a total loser, but the Mikey Mouse kite was champ and flew and flew and flew. The wind here wasn’t consistent so
the boys hung out underneath the kite and waited for it to come screaming back to Earth and smash into the ground.
Hoping to get to the beach today and maybe grab a milkshake a the little rickety beach burger joint they have here.

We’re at the ocean with Nana and Papa and the house is amazing and we’ve had some time to wind down and just relax, what a treat! . The boys were excited to play Battleship and “help” out with putting in the pegs. We went on a walk to the playground and Carlos used his umbrella as a walking stick so he could be just like Papa. We played some football and checked out the playground. Trey took a nap with Nana and Papa while Dee and I hooked up the bike trailer and rode the bikes around Seabrook to check out the houses. Let me tell you…those boys are heavy to haul around and it was me doing the hauling because the trailer hooked onto the pink bike. Dee wasn’t about to ride a pink bike!
Off to do…um….NOTHING! Happy vacation!

I was so excited to go to the boy’s preschool end of the year picnic, I had my mom all set up to watch Alice and Trey and got the boys fed some lunch so they could go and just play and not have to stop to eat and we were ready to go have some fun. We got in the van, got to the park and apparently the party was from 11-1 and I had it written down as 1-3. So, we got there just as it was ending. The boys seemed to do ok with it, Levi was a great boost in saying that it was ok, he will see his teachers and friends tomorrow (yeah, he hasn’t quite got that school is over for the year). The boys got to play for 1/2 hour and see a couple of their teachers, but I am seriously disappointed. I feel cheated, and have only myself to blame. I run the kids all over God’s green Earth all the time and was so looking forward to actually hanging out with the teachers and other parents instead of just passing from one activity to the other. Note to self: I need to get out more if missing a preschool picnic makes me tear up!