Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2011

Fourth of July weekend

I'm back in a blogging funk!
So many pictures, and so far behind posting them.
Coming soon: girls weekend (from June), Barrett's wacky water class, Barrett's first movie theater movie

We had a great Fourth of July weekend with family and friends.
Justin was on-call for the holiday weekend, so we just stayed in Winfield.

Saturday night, we went out to grandma and grandpa's for some water balloon tossing and desserts.
I didn't get too many pictures. 



Sunday afternoon we met Barrett's friends (Norah Kate, Lydia and Kennedy) and their mommies at the pool. Sorry, no pictures ;( We had to clear the pool only about 45 minutes after we got there because a storm was headed in. 

Sunday night, we went to dinner at Montana Mike's and then took Barrett to the fireworks stand. He was SO excited to pick out fireworks. Then we went to Gigi and Papa to shoot them off! Since the storm had come through around 4:30pm, it really cooled things off. It was the perfect evening to be outside. Barrett's favorite was the smoke balls and sparklers.












On Monday it was HOT again, so we swam and had a cook out with Gigi and Papa. I was sad (as always) not having my brothers here. Hopefully next Fourth we can be together. Monday evening we celebrated at the Wolf's house with a BBQ and some small fireworks for the kids. 

Some pictures from that evening...
(I only had my Bloggie camera, so they're not the best)











Yes, they both did a lot of this...covering their ears! EVEN when it was just smoke balls ;)




After dinner, we headed to the fairgrounds/Pecan Grove, to watch the Winfield fireworks show! For years and years and years, Megan's parents and many of their friends have gathered to watch the fireworks together. They also always bring along homemade ice cream and desserts. They set it all up in the back of the suburban and we dig in! Barrett seems to enjoy this tradition already. 






They fired off some really LOUD cannons or something in the grandstands prior to the fireworks show starting, and it scared the living daylights out of Barrett. He's usually not afraid of the fireworks, but this made him burst into tears...every. single. time! and they fired them off three separate times! The second time he was in the middle of eating a cupcake, and the cupcake flew out of his hands and upside down into the grass in front of his chair. After that, he sat on Daddy's lap! Baby Cal on the other hand (seen sleeping in his carseat in the photo above), slept through ALL three super loud cannon firing rounds! 








It was a great Fourth of July!!!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

27 or 28 celebrations

I don't typically blog about birthdays of friends and family here.
Or that's all I'd be doing =)

 But this is one of my favorite pictures, so I thought I'd share it today...
My childhood best friend, Megan, is celebrating her 31st birthday today.
(she's a few months younger than me, so I can tell her age)


Got me thinking...we've been friends for so many years,
this is probably our 27th or 28th year celebrating birthdays with each other!

It's crazy to think that Barrett and Norah Kate are almost the age we were when we took this picture!
What a blessing to still have Megan as one of my best friends, all these years later.
Barrett and I treated her (and Norah Kate and Callum) to drinks and muffins at College Hill Coffee this morning.

Happy Birthday, friend!!

Friday, July 30, 2010

Big Green Tractor

A couple weeks ago, we spent the evening with friends, at their place on the river.
Barrett loved it: big green tractor, dirt and sand to play cars in, and his friend Addison was there!

Here are a few pictures from our evening...


Thursday, June 3, 2010

kickin' it with friends

A couple weeks ago, we had some friends over to grill out.
It was before the weather suddenly turned HOT.

Great friends. Justin's steaks. Cold Beverages.
Eric Church blarin' on the ipod. Adorable kiddos. One toad. Lots of laughs.

It was right where I wanted to be.


We picked up every stick we could find, between our yard and our neighbor's yard.
I think the firepit was definitely worth the money.

Barrett likes to give things rides on the trike. The juice box is always a happy traveler.


After that, he did a little fishing.
He's probably the only one that thinks Mommy's sidewalk chalk fish ponds are awesome.
Well, besides Mommy, of course.



Hanging outside with cold beverages isn't complete without some of this...

Finally time to eat. Addison and Barrett had their own table :)
Looks like they're on a date!




YaYa trying some of Barrett's cheese puffs.
I don't think he was happy about it.




This was our after dinner excitement...



Then, time for dessert around the fire.
Right as Justin was adding some more logs sticks to the fire.
Smoke=ambiance...right?


Alright, everybody... GO HOME!

Note: Laura, Heidi and Mitch were present at this BBQ
Sorry to have no photographic proof of it ;(
 
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