Friendsgiving

This year, we headed to Yuma, AZ to celebrate Thanksgiving with some dear friends. We met Katie & Gray back in North Carolina, and despite the many miles of separation, have managed to keep in touch and stay close. We are truly grateful for their friendship! Within the past year, Katie & Gray effectively doubled their children, so it was a full house! They made room for the four of us and Tommy and we had a wonderful time. The girls never skip a beat between visits and immediately become best friends all over again. It is really sweet to watch! Our girls were also excited to spend some time with the babies! I'm not sure Michael and Grayson knew what to make of the crazy girls, but it was FUN!

We left Oceanside late in the afternoon on Wednesday, and after a nice drive, arrived in Yuma by 9ish. The girls settled in for bed with Chloe and Nora, and the adults enjoyed some catching up in the hot tub! We awoke early the next morning and spent the day playing and cooking.














The girls even dressed up and put on a show for us!










We settled for a bit to watch a movie, and then got dinner on the table. It was casual and delicious! We rocked paper plates because that's just practical!









And after a wonderful day, this was the sweetest sight.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NC Girls' Weekend

Image
Since Jason is out of town, we decided to schedule an impromptu girls weekend visit in North Carolina. It was great to see Lynsey & Colleen and their families. Jessica, the girls and I drove down Friday night and got to Lynsey's just before midnight. We didn't do much, but hang around the house and play outside on the first day. It was relaxing and fun. Brian was awesome and played with the kids while Jess, Lynsey & I did a workout in their amazing home gym. Colleen came up with the boys around lunch time on Saturday. All the kids fawned over Miles, or as they have names him, Baby My My. I think Savannah really enjoyed not being the youngest for a few days. Saturday night, we ordered pizza, ate way too much, and Grammy Betty came over. We haven't seen her in a long time and it was wonderful to chat with her again.  The next day, we woke up to some snow! We played outside again and the kids played well together which was nice for us adults. Colleen and the boys ...
Read more

Bath Time Fun

Image
Typically, after Jason gets home and eats dinner, he is on bath duty. It gives me 10 minutes to clean the kitchen, set up his coffee and make his lunch for the following day. One day last week though, everything was already done, so I snuck in to watch the fun. We recently got some Mr. Bubbles for Reagan and she LOVED them. She's such a cheeseball!
Read more

Bath Time: PAHM Style

Image
I've mentioned it before, but I will say it again: I love Play At Home Mom !!! This site is the best for ideas to interact with, engage, and teach your children. Reagan takes a bath almost every night. She has the typical assortment of toys (rubber boats, cups, a turtle, etc) to entertain her, but lately, she just leaves them in the bag. I decided to introduce some new things during bath time and they were a huge hit! Here are some pictures from our "adventures in bath fun." First up: BUBBLES ! It's a bit too cold to just hang out in the yard blowing bubbles, so I decided that bath time would be the perfect opportunity for a mess free bubble party! I LOVE this shot.  Secondly, (and straight from PAHM), I added: WATER BALLOONS !!! She absolutely loved when I poked a small hole in them and they became "water fountains!"
Read more