Weekend Festivities

One of the biggest changes over our 3 day weekend?

About 40 degrees!

Friday, sweatshirts and long pants!

Dreary, but we enjoyed a little time at the park!

The park: Daddy's suggestion...

and a good one!

Everyone came home quite muddy, but WHEW! Fun!

As the temps warmed up throughout the weekend,

we enjoyed graduation open houses.

Open house #1: Laney fell in mud...sandals, dress and white pants...MUD!
Open house #2: Laney signs the guestbook...Laney...as big as the whole page!

Open house #3: Went off without a hitch! YES!

And, of course, our weekend wouldn't be complete without stops at our local hot dog stand, ice cream stand and pizza parlor!

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Our home was even transformed over the weekend. A few days of movie play in the early mornings, followed by artwork the last morning!

After a lot of activity away,

Hot, hot Monday kept us in our cool, cool woods!
The older girls even opened a Play-dough bakery...served lots of ice cream!
And the little girlies? Fort princesses!

And my darling boy? Entertaining everyone!

This past weekend... Fantastic time away from the daily routine.

So, today, back to the grind.

A few more school days for Emily.

A very exciting *and short*week!
Yep, gearing up for the festivities...

but, we'll enjoy our morning time...

canopied by the leaves,

listening to the birds,

talking softly to our 2 raccoon mommas just right behind my boy.

...and then to go get our fresh, local grown strawberries and eggs...

and perhaps adding in some homemade cookies into our bag too...just to kick off this week's festivities!