Saturday, at last!!! Lincoln's basketball team had a game after lunch, then we came home to enjoy the wonderfully warm temperatures. It's been a long week of cold and yucky weather, and we were so happy to be outside. The boys played in the backyard for several hours, and they had so much fun! They played in their 2nd story clubhouse, they made a Whataburger window to serve food (sticks and rocks-yum!), we had a fun baseball game, and we did some basketball practicing too.
We also did a bit of bike riding, and Lincoln did great! It's been a while since he's been out on the bike, but he was a pro. So much so that Mommy left the elbow and knee pads at home, and we just went for it!! We picked up a friend from one street over, and sweet James rode with us for a while and came back to our house to do races with the boys.
After Daddy and Pops were done golfing in the aforementioned wonderful weather, we all met for a delicious dinner at Manny's! The boys were in the mood for a group hug, and this was the picture snapped from a Mommy's view. Love!!!!!
We started Sunday out with Sunday School, brunch at the club, and some grocery shopping. We stopped at the Saugier's house on the way home. Cannon is one of Lincoln's Kindergarten besties, and his older sister was selling Girl Scout cookies on their lawn. We bought our cookies (trefoils and tagalongs) then had some serious playtime. Coach Simon had just installed a new tree swing that could fit all the kiddos, and they had a blast! Lincoln described it like a waffle (square with grid lines), and Beau later talked about how much he liked the breakfast swing! So funny! After playing in the backyard again, we headed back out for one more errand. We got a text asking if we could join the Saugier's at the soccer field to do some rocket launching!!!! We were "in" for sure!! Beau kept insisting that he wanted to sit in the driver's seat of the rocket and that he would know what to do when he got to the moon. Mommy wasn't exactly sure what kind of rockets would be launching, but it seemed prudent to lower his expectations by a mile or so! After a long conversation about how one has to go to astronaut school before one can be launched in a rocket to the moon and about how only small rockets can be launched from a soccer field, we were still excited and better prepared. Daddy and Pops had just finished with golf, so Daddy met us to join in on the fun. Coach Simon wasn't messing around with baby rockets, and he assured us these would fly high. This was the first rocket . . . we had no idea what it could do!
The kids (at least a dozen) had gathered around watching the set up. Cannon asked his dad if hit the launch button, but his dad said he should probably let someone else since Cannon had done it before. Sweet Cannon asked if could be Lincoln, and that is how Lincoln got to launch the first rocket from the Bowie soccer field. He was loving it!!!!!
Mommy was prepared with the video rolling but not prepared at how fast and high the rocket would go . . . it was crazy!!!!!
The kids went crazy when they discovered that it would break into a parachute and float back down to the ground. The chase was on after each rocket launch, and it was so fun to watch!
The super giantest rocket went so high that some of us lost sight of it for a second! It's parachute crash-landed in a tree . . . but Coach Simon wasn't having that and climbed the tree to retrieve it! (It wasn't the first time he had been caught climbing a tree on Sunday . . . he had installed the breakfast swing earlier in the day!)
Beau was loving the rocket launches, and he mostly ran with the big kids. Even though he didn't get to drive the rocket to the moon, he had a blast!
Super fun weekend!!!! It was great to hang with so many neighborhood friends, and the rockets were fun. We all have a bonus day on Monday, but I'm not sure it can top rocket launching.
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