Our Memorial Day weekend was full of yard sales (EVERY DAY for three days straight)... so I didn't get many pictures. The kids were in and out of the house, helping with the sale here and there. Playing in the backyard and riding bikes to and from friends houses.
Here are the two pictures I managed to snap on Memorial Day...
Amongst the fun of last weekend, we had two old friends come visit us from Rifle -- two of our favorite baby-sitters who just finished their freshman years of college. We, of course, still think of them as 7th graders.
It was so fun to have them surprise our kiddos, and spent the evening catching up.
We had a lot of fun on Saturday cheering for Howard at the Rifle wrestling meet. We connected with some friends, enjoyed ice cream, and Howard won second place.
We had a full week. After a regular week of work and after school activities Monday-Thursday, we had a dear old friend come visit Thursday evening for dinner and spend Thursday night. This was also the one Friday in January that I worked all day for a staff inservice.
Then Saturday we had Tracey's surprise birthday party (which was awesome but pretty tiring and we got home late) AND good friends from Rifle spent Saturday night and we had a leisurely breakfast at home Sunday morning.
Then I tried to fit all the tasks at home that I usually would do on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday into Sunday afternoon.
Yesterday we threw Tracey a surprise birthday party, and it was SO much fun and we had a great turnout, and she really was surprised, and I think a great time was had by all. The location was SO much, and her best friend from Rifle and her family even came up for the party, and spent the night at our house afterwards. Seriously, the best day of her life so far.
And here are a few pictures of the fun times...
Caroline made it very clear to us this year how much she hates to travel on her birthday. It doesn't matter that she's always been around aunts and uncles and cousins for her birthday... she adamantly asked that she NOT spend this birthday in the car traveling. She also wanted a birthday party with friends.
We did our best to make her birthday wishes come true. We did our traveling before Christmas so there were NO car rides on her birthday. And, we started the celebration last Friday, December 30th with a swimming birthday party with friends at the Vernal Rec Center. The roads were icy but everyone who said they were going to come made it and we had a great time.
