Project: Family Run Away

So Friday, while the kids were in school, my friend gave me this idea that my family should run away for the weekend. It was noon when we decided, thankfully I had already started Saturday chores, so when the kids got home they finished vacuuming and we headed out. Okay, it wasn't that simple. I had planned on leaving around 2:30pm, but of course there was every obstacle. We headed out a little after 3pm, and had to stop at the post office for Chris' work, then we had to head to his parents to return keys and then headed up to Grandma Taylor's for the right keys.

We finally got on the road around 5pm, I then asked the kids if they still wanted to go and they all chimed in "YES". So on the road we went.
When we got there we ran into a pleasant (for us) surprise. Aunt Stacey, Uncle Dave and their kids were there! We crashed their party and stayed up too late visiting. Megan, Austin and Ryan were so nice to give up their beds for us, thanks.
They took off early the next morning for Lake Powell and we stayed to enjoy a day of swimming.

This year Alexa has really gotten the hang of going under water, by the end of the trip she was doing FLIPS off the side of the pool, it was awesome! Caely was doing underwater handstands all over the pool.
Patch got brave enough to go without his life jacket, but at one point got too brave and walked into too deep of water. He's fine.
My friend, Kelly recently had an experience with a grumpy man at the pool who frowned on her kids enjoying themselves at their pool. When we got to the pool we had our own grumpy man. I'm SO glad she told her story so I didn't let him effect my kids and their fun. I could totally see myself getting mad because my kids were screaming and jumping and splashing, but isn't that what a pool's for? So I let them and he left. We weren't rude, he was just enjoying being by himself at a public pool, and my kids were loud, but they didn't splash him. We actually ran into him later in the day and he turned out to be very nice!


Tyler loves sports, he had to take a turn on the tennis court. He got all the kids involved!

What little pros!


Nice plumber butt, Patch!

After swimming we headed back to watch "Hannah Montana the Movie". It was supposed to be our celebratory movie after our week with no TV.
During the movie we got another surprise, Uncle Jim, Aunt Cheri, Chelsea and Morgan showed up!
We had a nice visit with them, and just as we were getting ready to go back to the pool (okay, not just. Caely was begging for an hour while I was trying to visit with Jim and Cheri), a storm blew in. It went from 100 degree's to 77! Thankfully there is an indoor pool too, so we still went.
Tyler and Luke had gone down to play more tennis and they got drenched running back for cover!

It was such a fun weekend, the kids really enjoyed the break from our boring house.



We recently discovered a new trick from Patch. He can touch the tip of his tongue to the bottom of his nose, it's krazy! I thought that was a hereditary thing, but Chris and I can't do it.

Here he is trying to pick his nose with his tongue, this kids SO gross!

Tah-dah!