Holiday Weekend

We enjoyed a nice long holiday weekend! Friday night we didn't do much. I actually can't even remember what we did, so it must not have been too exciting:-). Oh, that's right, we picked up Boston Market and went and ate at a park with both kids (Elv and Layla of course). Saturday morning we headed to Hutchin's Lake for brunch with Joe's family.

Layla and her buddy Camryn playing (and often trying to escape) on the deck...

Layla and Uncle Steve playing together...

Little Miss Independent...that shirt sure does desribe her:-)...

Layla and Mommy...

She loves her monkeys from her barrel of monkeys...

On her first boat...no, not her first boat ride (they didn't go anywhere)...just hanging out on their boat...

Exploring the boat with Joe's cousin, Tim...

Practicing driving the boat for when she does get to go on her first boat ride...

Layla loves climbing on everything these days and she has no fear of falling which is trouble! She's only in a onesie since it was between parties and she didn't want to dirty her fourth outfit:-)

At night we went to Joyce's for swimming and supper and smores. This is the best pic I have of Layla and Gavin together:-).

Gigi and Layla...

Mike, Em and Gavin...

Us...

Joe had off for the fourth on Monday, so we just enjoyed a nice day working around the house and such. Elv and Layla enjoyed watching Daddy work outside...

Later in the afternoon we headed out to GR to look at a trailer that Em and Mike had found. We've been looking for the past month or so. After that we headed for dinner at Sonic (we had never been before!) and then to Menards to get some stuff that Joe needed for the basement. It was approaching Layla's bedtime by then (8pm) so Layla was getting a little testy in Menards. I was pushing her around in the cart while Joe found what he needed. We found a big bin of bouncy balls which she was very excited about. I gave her one to play with and she liked that for a second then pointed to the rest like she wanted all of them ("ba, ba" as she calls them). I then let her keep the one she had in the cart (she needs one for outside anyway--I don't always give in and buy her what she wants:D), she threw a total tantrum when we left the balls. She's been doing this at home with certain things too. At home, she screams, arches her back and throws her head backward into the floor. She has started doing that sometimes during diaper changes and while getting dressed and she's started hating baths all of a sudden. I guess she's just stating her independence:-). She likes to do things on her time:-).

Today Gavin is over and the kids are enjoying watching Michael Jackson's funeral. Okay, so they're not really enjoying it, but look back someday they can now know that they did watch it:-).

This is a lot harder to push with Gavin in it...

If Gavin can get in it, I must be able to too!

This works better to have Gavin push me!

Now if only we could both fit...

Like I said earlier, the girl has no fear of falling...

It's cute, if one of them lays down, the other often lays next to them...