Memorial Day Weekend - 2011

So, that is the lone picture I took of our holiday weekend! Summer has finally come to Cincinnati, so we were outside soaking it up. King's Island, Swimming Pools, Block parties and backyard fun. We did take a break from the outdoors for a few hours Monday morning, to paint Gracyn's room. The brown is gone and she now has the purple that she had in Colorado. 1 girls' room down, 3 to go. The girls were dying to help, so they did a little work, with dry brushes before it all began. Then I let them each do a tiny patch with real paint! I am happy to have the purple back, it makes me smile!!! For my own memories, I have bullet points of the rest of the weekend.

~Reagan, Graycn and I met Addison at the bus stop Friday afternoon and loaded up for King's Island. Tommy met us a bit later, after work. It wasn't too crowded and we had a blast riding tons of rides. Sadly, Reagan wasn't feeling great, so after a few hours, Tommy headed home with the 2 little ones. Addison and I stayed on until just before they closed at 10pm. She is my crazy girl, so we rode roller coaster after roller coaster. Her fav of the night was "The Beast". It is the world's longest wooden roller coaster. It moves at 65 mph for nearly 5 minutes. We rode it twice, first in the mid-section of the train. She wouldn't rest until she rode in the front seat, so we went back a 2nd time and waited a few extra minutes for the front car! I had a great time hanging out with her. 6 is fun....she is a good little buddy!!!

~Saturday morning Reagan ran errands with me, while Tommy took the other 2 to Addison's soccer. Reagan skipped it, since she still wasn't feeling 100%. We met back later in the afternoon and headed to Lifetime for the grand opening pool party at the outdoor pool. The girls had a great time. They played some games and Addison even won the dance-off. Poor Reagan just didn't have enough energy to dance her heart out!

~Sunday we started on our first Sunday of serving in the children's ministry at our new church. Tommy and Reagan work in Gracyn's class and Addison and I work in a 4-year-old class. We work first service and then all attend 2nd at our respective spots. They are so excited to serve and we have fun doing it with them. That afternoon, we rode bikes to the neighborhood park, cooked out and played in the backyard.

~Monday was painting morning, followed by a neighborhood cook-out in the cul-de-sac, with lots of water fun for the kids and then the gym/pool. Tommy was good, he worked out. I just spent my hour of childcare lying all alone by the pool. He brought the girls out at the end of his workout and we had a great time swimming together. We came home for one last dinner on the grill and got ready to get back to life the next morning.

~One funny thing. At some point during the weekend, we had about a 10 minute time period where I thought Gracyn was upstairs with Tommy and he thought she was downstairs with me. Turns out she was upstairs, but not in the room with him. She managed to find a huge container of Vaseline, which she used to paint herself and several surfaces in my master bedroom. I had some decorative pillows that are a casualty and we are still trying to degrease her hair!!!