Simply Gathered

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Since we were off Monday for Martin Luther King Holiday, Lolli called and set us up a hotel for the night so the kids could go swimming and for a change in scenery. It was a great idea and we were all for it. We do this occasionally and it is always worth the money and then some more. The kids have so much fun!

Sa-ssyyyyy!

We had some friends come over too as well as my nephew "Little B." Here we just call him Moses ha!

I have known sweet little Ainsley in the blog world (my mom keeps her during the week) because I read her momma's blog but so glad I got to meet Ainsley and Ali...both sweeter in person than I imagined (if that's possible!).

Uncle Matt giving Brayden a pool swirly....

Enjoying the hot tub...

The pool was huge and we pretty much had the whole thing to ourselves both Sunday and Monday!

This is Norah, my friend Jennifer's daughter who also came to swim with us. I used to work with Jennifer when she was still single and it has been neat to see her get engaged, get married and then have Norah. This little was scared of NOTHING!

Lolli took them by the vending machines to get a snack before bed and they didn't go to sleep until 11:30!!! I knew we would regret that part!

The next morning we went to breakfast at the hotel and it was quite the treat! It was a very nice buffet style breakfast with some of it cooked to order and each table had its own directv. Yep the kids LOVED that part. They got to watch Spongebob while they ate!

Coffee with Lolli...

After a while we convinced them to watch history, the second and final inauguration of Obama.

Then we went swimming again and this time I got my phone (with a Lifeproof case on it of course) in the water and snapped some pictures of the kids underwater. SO fun!

What a fun 2 days...thanks Lolli! Looking forward to the next time!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Our weekend and some randoms

I am a little behind on blogging as you can tell ha! We had a great long weekend and enjoyed time with my sweet little ones and hubby.

Brayden made this on his 100th day of school...

My sweet hubs brought these home to me on Thursday night for no reason. He knows how to bless me! :)

Jay loves the show Dangerous Grounds about a man who has a huge coffee company and goes into all these dangerous countries to find the best coffee available. Jay watched the episode and then ordered these bags from Papa New Guinea, Madagascar and Ethiopia. Obviously they were very convincing ha! The coffee was really good but not as good as the Keurig. I have found nothing that matched it yet!

Thursday night Nonnie came to stay with us on her way to North Carolina to spend a week with her sister, Aunt Judy. We loved having her here!

Lucy made this for Lolli the other day...

Friday and Saturday night we went to a parenting conference. We haven't been to one since Karis was a baby and there was a free one in our area so we wanted to go. Nobody can get enough parenting advice right?! I always leave feeling like I am a horrible parent and with a huge long list of things to work on! It was really good.

Friday night on our way to the conference we stopped at the good 'ole Cracker Barrel. Can't go wrong...everybody loves it! We had a little father son football game while we were waiting on our food....

Numerous morning I find Lucy here in Jay's recliner. She gets up to go potty and just goes back to sleep here....precious.

Saturday we did grocery shopping and some errands and had to stop by here for lunch because kids eat free on Tuesdays and Saturdays!

The boys did errands while the girls went grocery shopping. The boys had a good time. Thankful Jay invests in the kiddos and spends quality time with them!