Celebrating

We spent this weekend celebrating quite a few important things!  We headed to Tyler on Thursday and went straight to Paul and Carolyn's house for lunch and were surprised with a little Kindergarten graduation celebration.  They had bought Ava a cookie cake which made her feel really special, but what she REALLY loved was some nail polish they gave her that changes colors in the sun! 
After lunch, we headed to see my mom and dad and spend time with my nephews Brooks and Hayden.  Friday was spent playing with Hayden some more, and preparing for a party we were throwing my parents for their 45th anniversary!  What an amazing feat! (and I think I respect it even more, being on year #15 with three little kids!)  We also got to see sweet little Grayson for a while on Friday night even though he wasn't feeling too well. 

They are still testing the waters of friendship...cars before bros.

I thought the quote was just right to go with the picture :)

 

This picture is a very special treat, considering my dad is almost phobic of cameras.

 

Don't be fooled...they weren't playing together...they were establishing territory.

 

I called this one the "grandchild givers with offspring" photo...your welcome mom.

 

Saturday, Shawn and I traded Gramme some free babysitting for yard work.  We took out a few really huge bushes while she watched the kids!  It looks so much better now and we're excited to help her put new azaleas in at some point soon! 

All done!

Hopefully the trash men have the same definition of "bundle" as we do!

 

And here's a sort of before shot of what it looked like...ignore all the humans in the photo and notice the bushes. lol

 

After that, we met up with our friends, Tim and Marci for lunch.  We meet up with them every year at Christmas and then try to meet up once during the summer.  They are one of those kinds of friends that you just pick right back up with every time you see them.  And our kids had a lot of fun together too!

Yeah for good friends!

 

 Lastly, we headed back to my parents house to drop of the girls for a WEEK at Camp Grandparents!!  They are going to spend their days with Nana and Poppy and their evenings with Gramme, Grandma and Max and they couldn't push us out the door quick enough!  That was another great reason to celebrate....a whole week with only one kiddo (and just enough time away to miss them :).

 Ahh...here's the girls in front of the house, bags and bodies ready for adventure!  Thank you grandparents!!!  I know it's a LOT of work!!!