All About the Weekends

In my house Grant is always complaining that there is always something happening on the weekends. I can't say that he is necessarily wrong in this case, but there are definitely some weekends that are busier than others.  The great part about living in our area is that there is always something to do.  

Always time to do some weekend shopping with the cousins...

 Poor Hannah always seems to have homework...

 Oh and lots of fundraisers around town.  Sometimes you glaze donuts...

 and other nights you dig out that cocktail dress from the back of your closet, drink wine and bid on items you absolutely don't need, but hey it was for a good cause.

Cathedral Arts Project student performing at the fundraiser.

I couldn't just talk about all of the fundraising events we go to, I also have to mention that when Auntie K goes out of town we sometimes find her favorite childhood toy and send pictures of him in compromising positions.  

P really would have preferred if we let her cut his hair.  

We hang out with Grr...

The really exciting weekends occur when we have extra special visitors come to town.  I don't have pictures of Grant and his dad at their annual baseball spring training weekend because we know they are too cool to take photos, but I do have pics of our fun with GG over the weekend.
First stop was to the Orange Park Town Hall for food trucks and movies on the lawn.  Sweet potato fries, fried shrimp, dessert and a little Mary Poppins is all you need on a Friday night.

That is until Saturday when you have a soccer game, an open house at daycare and a birthday party to attend.

Ok, so the kids weren't invited nor was it a birthday party, but Mommy sure had fun on her night out too!

The weekend of visitors isn't over yet because there were Girl Scout cookies to sell, a second soccer game, kites to fly and a little dancing in the backyard.  

Sometimes I forget just how pretty our trees are until I look back at the pictures.

Now it is Sunday evening and we must rest...until next weekend.

A Day of Firsts

This is Adelaide's third season of soccer, the first year she played at the Y and then we moved to  Clay County Soccer where apparently things are a little more serious.  So we are proud to say that after one and a half seasons ADELAIDE SCORED HER FIRST GOAL!!!  Coach Ben has had his heart set on her finally scoring a goal for a year and it finally happened.  She was so excited she could hardly stand it and then to top it off her little buddy Delaney came home with us for a playdate.   

A blows us kisses and waves just about most of each game.

P and her best soccer bud Chandler.

We have had plenty of playdates at our house, but this one threw the girls for a loop because Delaney actually rode home with us without her parents...wow.  My little monsters were so confused as to what was going on and I think they were in shock for the whole one mile ride.  This should also go down in the books as the first time Adelaide chose a friend over her sister.  Apparently P was bothering them so A told P she had to get out of her room, my heart broke a little for P, but I guess it was a quick glimpse into our future.

Might Need a Canoe

Interesting to see how all of this global warming is affecting the US, because holy cow there was snow and ice in Florida!!  Thankfully it didn’t reach us in Jacksonville, but it did mean canceled work trips and threats of flurries at home.  

After the great thaw for everyone else we were hammered with days of rain.  The girls happened to get new rainboots for Christmas so this was the perfect time to try them out.  Not yet dressed for the day the girls went outside with Brooke for fun in the mud.  A wasn’t so into it, no surprise there, but P went hog wild and did not want to come back into the house.

Wild Thing You Make My Heart Sing

It was Penelope’s Day and she just could not get enough of the animals at the zoo.  We had to bring our own elephant to show the real elephants and then the shock and amazement over all of the things that they could do with their trunks.  P is a true sponge, she literally remembers everything that you tell her which means now when we see an elephant on tv, in the toy box, etc we get a dissertation on how they eat, get wet, etc.

Least favorite part of the day were the snakes, how do these kids know to be afraid?  I don’t think we have ever talked about not playing with snakes, but it’s Florida and they are everywhere so maybe they talked about it at daycare.  

There was also a big Adelaide revelation,this was the first time that she wasn’t terrified when we asked her if she wanted to feed the giraffes which means it was also the first time Adelaide didn’t just drop the branch and run.

When we allowed time for play in the kids area we didn’t know just how fast the little slides were, oh yes we were the stellar parents who let the girls go down the slide and when I realized just how fast they were I had to push another kid out of the way so that mine didn’t face plant into the ground.  To my credit the kid was probably 12 and the same size as me.  We got things under control the next twenty times they went down the slide, though one of my children about took me out at the knees once.

You want me to touch that thing...I don't think so.  

Holy cow this slide is fast!

Lucky for my little monsters that they have a YaYa who gave them money to ride the carousel, unfortunate for them that Mommy and Daddy weren’t standing in line for them to ride a second time.  That meant unfortunately for us this lead to the first melt down of the day and the signal to get to the car quickly.