Low key

Last weekend, it was 3 cookouts in 3 days and 2 of those were at our house.  We went to a friend's house on Saturday evening.  I ended up making a cake batter and baked in ice cream cones.  Then I frosted them.  I got the idea out of a Rachel Ray magazine.  They turned out really cute, but transportation was an issue.

On Sunday, we had a party for the boys' baseball team.  The boys typically only see each other on the field so it was nice to socialize a little off the field.  We had over 40 people here, that is a lot of people.  The party turned out really nice, even though a storm moved in during the middle of it.  I am talking a wind blowing storm.  Our lounge chairs ended up at the bottom of the pool kind of storm.  We were all stuffed into the basement but the kids managed to find things to do.  After it settled down, the boys went swimming again and the party didn't end until 8:45. 

I decided on Monday, July 4th, that we needed to get rid of some of our leftovers.  So we invited a few friends over for swimming and food.  It was a nice evening and definitely not 40 people here.

We had nothing last week but the week went by fairly quickly.  Rain came in on Friday and I decided to take the boys to see the Cars 2 movie.  They all really enjoyed it.

This past weekend was really low key.  We spent a lot of time relaxing by the pool.  Saturday evening we spent with our neighbors, swimming and hanging out. 

Yes, I don't know what we would do without our pool.  It does provide us a lot of entertainment.  The boys had friends over on Sunday and they played out there for a good few hours.  And we spend time out there just about everyday. 

This week, all the boys have vacation bible school at our church.  Today at pickup Jay says wow that was short.  Well, compared to their all day scout camp I am the 3 hours felt like no time at all.  They had a great time.