Monday, July 8, 2019

4th of July!

We had a fun Fourth of July this year.  Our friends came over on Thursday and we grilled burgers, played corn hole, and hung out.  That night, our n'hood put on an incredible fireworks show.  The next day, we headed up to the mountain house for the annual 4th of July picnic/square dance weekend. We topped it off with watching the women's USA soccer team win the championship at our friends' house in the mountains on Sunday.  It was a great time!

Actual 4th:

Parker and Ian


Taylor throwing with John

Paula and Sydney

Stephen and Addison


The girls won!







Mountain House:

Friday-




Celebrating Olivia's 11th birthday! Parker was really getting into the singing 😂



Food fight



Saturday-

"Dropping the whoa" at breakfast




Taylor going off the rope swing







Sunday-


Taylor and me on our morning walk


They were in mourning for Matthew's 50th birthday, which was today! (all but Taylor, apparently)

This is about when he realized we were all wearing black for him. ;P



Note the bumper magnet

On the way home!  My favorite view.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Summer- Week 4

Some of our adventures in week 4 of summer (how is it already week 4?!):

Putt Putt:






Dave & Busters:








Ice Cream Party:



Two gimpies





Movie Night- Extreme!


They made fake money ($5 for normal seats, $7 for VIP seats)

Concessions

Seating- "Normal" on the couch, "VIP" on the floor


Mountain House (Friday-Sunday)

Random:




I think she's over the broken leg



Reunion @ the Mountain House

This past weekend, our dear family friends came all the way to the mountain house (near the border of North/South Carolina) from Florida to have a friend "reunion".  This had been on the calendar for almost a year, so it was hard to believe the date was finally here!

The family that came up was Pat and Neal (my mom's best friend is Pat, and I have always called them "aunt" and "uncle"); their son, Rick, his wife Julie, and their 3 kids; and their daughter, Lynley, her husband, Paul, and their three kids.  Adding in my parents, brother and his fam, sister and her fam, and us, that totaled 27 people!

It was such a fun weekend.  The kids were: 16, 16, 14, 13, 10, 10, 8, 8, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3- so there was someone to play with everyone.  My mom made some amazing meals, we all hung around, played games, caught up.  The weather was beautiful, so we got a lot of lake time in.  Taylor took the whole "jumping off the high dock" thing to the next level and went off the rope swing!  Rick brought his drone and we had fun videoing with that.  Uncle Neal brought all kinds of games up- kickball, tug of war, baseball, paddleball, etc.  The weekend went off without a hitch!.  It was so fun that Rick and his wife were trying to find a way to miss work on Monday to stay an extra day. ;)

Here are some pics- wish I had taken more!

Breakfast Saturday AM- Katherine and Parker

Uncle Matthew and Parker

Walk with my sis

Parker and Ava

Hitting up the lake- it was HOT outside!


Ice Cream Place:
I think he liked it


Mining for gems



















Taylor jumping off the high dock