Okay, I guess since I haven't blogged in a week, I need to feed my addiction and blog 2 x's today! After returning home from NC, we have had a busy week. We left NC around 1:30pm and made it home at 2:45am. The trip home was MUCH more UNeventful so thank you for your prayers. No throw ups and everyone was in good spirits. We hit a 30 minute t-jam around DC that slowed us down, but it was smooth sailing after that. We got home and slept for awhile. I hit Meijer's for groceries, then we hit the DeWitts pool for the afternoon. It was a perfect day for the pool- one of the hot ones. Wednesday, Ryan headed back to work and he had to work Thursday as well. I took the kids to the library Wed. morning and ran some errands downtown. I can't remember what we did in the afternoon. The Boeve girls came over in the evening so Chad/Lisa could go out for their anniversary to dinner. Thursday morning I ran Cobe to the Dr. for his chicken pox booster, then we went for "coffee time" at Mary Jo's. Brooks wanted to stay with Braelyn there and play, so MJ kept him and let him hang out with them at Braelyn's swim lesson then took them to McD's for lunch. Cobe went to his friend Jaxson's house until 7:30 that night and Sadie slept all afternoon so I had quite a bit of free time. Of course I had no computer, so I had to read. :-) We got a call to show our house after I had all that free time and could have been straightening up, but didn't know I needed to. So Ryan and I cleaned that night. We left the house bright and early Friday a.m., ran some errands, and then met Tina and her boys at the park for lunch. Ryan met us there after he golfed that morning and Lisa and Tonya and their kids met us there after Bible school, so the kids had a great time playing. Friday night we went to the Bekins party in Grandville, which was a good time, then headed to the cottage after the party. I pretty much just lounged and played with Sadie at the cottage while Ryan and Cobe worked their butts off. Ryan mowed, power washed and he and Cobe got 7 wheelbarrows full of weeds out of the lake. A realtor showed our cottage today. We busted home late that afternoon to go to the Overbeeks party, which was another great time. We left that party early, because Ryan had a retirement party to go to for some cops at work. I took Sadie over to MJ's to spend the night so we wouldn't have to get up so early Sun. morning to take her over there while we went to the Buick Open. We had a great day at the golf tournament... for as long as the kids lasted. We were the only 1st timers who were naive enough to think it was a good idea to take 4 kids to a pro golf tournament. Pretty much there weren't any other kids in sight due to the fact you had to be ABSOLUTELY quiet 95 % of the time!!!!! DUH!!!! We were geeked to go and thought how much the kids would enjoy seeing the famous golfers. We didn't give much thought to the fact that hours of being quiet is not in a kid's nature. They actually did great, and we had driven two cars (Onstotts went too), so Julie and I decided after 2 hours that we would take the kids home in one car and let the guys stay and have a peaceful rest of the day since it was their father's day gift. They were VERY thankful. Julie and I stopped at a K-Mart, bought the 4 kids bathing suits, and headed to Rockford for swimming at her mom's lake. So we ended up having a great end to our day as well. Jason and Ryan stayed at the tournament and got to see all the golfers they wanted to, and actually met, talked to and shook hands with Kid Rock who was there following around John Daly in a golf cart. So they were thrilled!
Needless to say, I felt the need to stay home today as did the kids. We had a lazy morning, went to Cityside for me to check email and blogs, and then headed home. Brooksie got a new bike from his grandparents and had only gotten to ride it a little since we haven't been home, so he was begging to stay home today and ride it. So the neighbor kids were out in full force, so they had a good day playing. We headed to Knollwood to swim around 3, but it got a little chilly, so they didn't last long in the pool and ended up spending more time at the playground instead. Lisa and I walked tonight and all the kids played outside. WHEW! That is the recap of our week. We head to our cottage tomorrow night after Ryan gets off work for 4th of July festivities with the Boeves. We are taking a tent to pop in the front yard so we can watch the fireworks from the tent- the kids are excited!!!! So probably won't post again until after we get back Thurs. night, but don't worry, I'll be back! :-)
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I forgot you had those tickets, sounds like "fun". I wouldn't have thought about keeping kids quiet either! Oh well, live and learn and at least you had two cars! Good meeting with you this am, sorry it was cut short, hopefully you had something to do while waiting for the library to open! We'll have to do the park next time! Talk soon, enjoy your holiday at the cottage!
You are certainly addicted to blogging. lol. I love reading about your everyday things and even the extra special things like the Buick Open. I can't take my kids into church where they have to be quiet for about an hour, I certainly wouldn't attempt to take them to a golf tournament. You are a daring woman! Sounds like it went well and was a lot of fun. Did you get pics?
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