Memorial Day Weekend

Well, time to play catch up....It has been a long time since we blogged, so I thought I would take some time to publish some updates.

The big activity recently was the memorial day weekend. Before kids we would often venture out on a camping weekend, but now we stay home and enjoy a nice long weekend. We kicked off the weekend with Spuds (aka Fishy time) for dinner on Friday. We setup a picnic across the street in the grass and fed all the dozens of seagulls with our left overs. After dinner we walked the beach looking for "sea glass" and shiny rocks. Everything we found went into Daddy's short pockets. We finished the night out with a visit to whale tail park where the kids swang, went on slides, etc.

On Saturday we had a break from T-Ball and hung around home...worked in the yard, etc. That night we had plans with Doerrs where we went to our local "steak house" JaKs. Julia's brother had flown into town the night before so he came along as well. We had a great time like we always do, lot of laughs, good food, good times. We finished the night off with a few drinks at Taliricos. Thanks to Mom J for watching the kids :-)

After a late night on Saturday we didnt have any intention of heading to church, but when Maddie woke up she got dressed and came into our room asking if we were going...kind of hard to turn that down. After church we tried to get into Easy Street for breakfast but it was packed..45 min wait, so we headed home and Chef Mike cooked up some Egg, Bacon and Cheese breakfast sandwiches. Once the kids got a nap we headed over to the Landskovs for a summer BBQ kick off. There was quite a spread with salads, wings, beans, burgers, hot dogs...you name it. The kids loved playing in their fun filled back yard. As the night went on, we fired up a small fire, made smores and just chatted. It was a ton of fun. Special thanks to the Landskovs for a great party!!

So, after 3 busy days, you might think we would lay low on Monday...Naaa. After sleeping in we checked movie times and headed downtown to see Shrek 3. We went out on a limb and took Kenzie with us...It could have gone a lot of different ways, but Kenzie did AWESOME. The movie started and she was kind of into it..even blurted out a few "Shrek!" for the audience, and cracked a few laughs. After about 30 minutes, right on Q, she konked out for a nap. Meanwhile, Maddie loved the movie. She (and Dad) are big Shrek fans. A lot of the humor is more for the adults than the kids, but it was great. We ventured over to Cheesecake Factory for a late Lunch, and the finished the day/weekend off with an Ice Cream cone on the beach.

It was a busy, fun, weekend! A great way to kick off summer.

P.S. - Forgot to mention that we squeezed in a WebCam conference with Ryan, Stacey and Haas. So we were able to see the new guy (virtually.) Everyone is doing great!