Grandma showed Luke how to draw on rocks with chalk:
After Grandma and Grandpa's house, we went over to the Barnsby casa to play, eat dinner, then splash around in the bath with Andrew.
Bright and early in the morning, we headed over to Aunt Sally's house to visit these two:
(cousin Ronin)
(cousin Maeve)
Ronin showed Luke how to whip up some good eats in his kitchen. Luke decided to heat up some plastic green beans in a skillet - can and all! :)
Then they had a little jam session:
I think this move is called "the claw"
Next, it was off to Rosie's to meet Kristen and Andrew for lunch. The food was delicious, but the best part was the awesome purple balloon that Luke got!
(in the car on the way back to Kristen's house from Rosie's):
Once we got back to Kristen's, the boys went down for naps, then around 3:00 we headed over to my aunt and uncle's house for my Uncle Pat's 50th birthday party! They had a big blowout and fun was had by all!
I should mention that this entire weekend was especially fun and exciting for Luke because of all the animals involved. As you know, we have zero pets in our house. Luke, however, is obsessed - I mean, OBSESSED with cats and dogs! My parents have two cats, my sister has three huge dogs, Kristen has a cat, and my aunt has two small dogs! Pets galore!! He was loving it!
(Andrew, Luke, and Andie at the Sloan's house):
The final excitement of our day occurred when Kristen's Jeep got stuck in the yard at my aunt's house when we were leaving! The ground was really muddy from previous rain, but we took a risk and parked there anyway. Kristen feels bad for creating a few decorative tire marks in their yard - but really, she isn't to blame. She was just following us and we directed her into that off-road position. Oops! Luckily, the Sloan's had a chain and our Tahoe came to the rescue (really, we just wanted to give everyone a good excuse to take another shot! party on!)
Scott, I'll post these pics just for you so that you can laugh at your lovely wife! :)
Whew, another successful weekend! It is always so hard to try to see everyone and do everything whenever we come to Huntsville to visit! We didn't "do it all" (we never can!), but we had a good time and got to see lots of our favorite people!!
I live three houses directly behind your aunt and uncle!! I recognized it because we almost bought the lot next door to build on last year but decided just to add on to our house instead. Looks like you had a great trip!
ReplyDelete"the claw" is hilarious!!!! did you also notice that ronin is sitting in his dump truck!
ReplyDeleteashley - we were also going to buy the lot next door, but it sold the day AFTER we talked about it!