The Weekend

After such a fun and busy week with Lincoln going to camp at Canyon Creek, we needed to have a relaxed weekend.  Linc's friend Nick from White Sox T-Ball and Tornadoes Soccer invited us over to swim and grill out, and we were happy to go!  Coach Wes was there too with James and Charlie, and these guys had FUN!  The boys swam and jumped off the diving board at least 100 times each!  The parents mostly watched and agreed that life is the most carefree when you are a little boy jumping off a diving board for hours.  We had a crazy thunderstorm and bolted inside to play a few video games then came back out after the storm.  The promise of water balloons wasn't going to keep these guys inside as the storm wrapped up.  Great Saturday!  Nick will be in Kindergarten with Lincoln starting MONDAY, and they are so looking forward to playing together.  Love their family!

Beau wasn't left out of the fun on Saturday; he just had his own little adventure planned with Nana and Pops.  They went to NorthPark to check out the latest art installation.  It was all about Forts, and he loved it!!!  And he brought home a cookie cake to share with us all.  Score!!!!

Sunday morning was super rainy and thunderstormy, so we slept in.  We had a really late brunch at the club and hit up Tom Tom and Central Market for the week's groceries.  While Mommy and Daddy were cooking a few freezer meals for a our friends with a new baby, the boys were so enthralled by a new craft.  It was amazing that we had 90 minutes of almost total silence while they did their mosaic sticker craft.  How many of these can I order to continue the peace????  They loved the finished product! 

After the craft and freezer meal preparation, Mommy made homemade meatballs, Daddy made his special marinara with spaghetti, and the boys worked on a new Lego set.  After dinner they played with their completed Legos and really let their imaginations run wild.  A great rainy and busy day! 

We wrapped up the weekend by making rainbow pinwheel cookies, and I should have taken a picture.  We made sugar cookie dough and divided it into five bowls.  Each bowl was dyed a different color with food coloring, and we rolled out each color into a log.  We twisted the logs together and sliced them into cookies to bake.  Who wouldn't love a cookie that is green, pink, blue, yellow, and purple?  We will definitely make these cookies again!