DalrympleClanAdventures: FINALLY A Long Weekend

Friday Josh had off work and it could not have come soon enough. Since he worked the previous weekend it was 11 straight days of work for him. That also means 11 straight days of me alone with the boys for LONG days! Needless to say we all needed some family time.

Friday was relatively calm. We had breakfast at home. Then I took the boys for a walk while Josh did taxes. We have some southern boys....they kept complaining about how cold it was. It was in the upper 40s which was indeed chilly compared to the 80s we've had lately!!

After lunch I took Jack and Ewan to the gym for some pool time. After we played and worked on their swim skills I took them to the babysitting room and got my own workout. We went home and then enjoyed a little down time before we headed out to Lowe's and Home Depot to look at faucets for the kitchen and then dinner out and flying planes.

Saturday began with our usual farmer's market breakfast. We do so love to eat there....the biscuits and gravy are a favorite as are the grits and scones too. We got some goodies for dinner and headed home.

I took all the troops to an egg hunt in the neighborhood and Josh went to get wood for the kitchen bar. The boys all had great fun hunting for eggs. Sean knew what was going on right away this time; as soon as he found his first egg he opened it to see what was inside!! When we got home I emptied all the eggs and put the loot away....Sean cried the whole time because he wanted to eat more candy (he already his his limit of two at the hunt)!

That afternoon they played hard outside. Sean finally took a late nap but the older boys stayed outside and played or tried to help Daddy work on the bar (nothing as fun as having the table saw and other tools out)!

Jack and Ewan designed their own mountain bike circuit in the yard. Jack wants to practice to he can go mountain biking with Daddy sometime. They did pretty well. They both crashed once or twice but it did not slow them down much!

We had a YUMMY dinner of lime cilantro pasta (from the farmer's market) with butter and cheese (both also from the market), salad with strawberries and a ginger pear dressing (lettuce from our garden) and wild sockeye salmon (also from the market, via Alaska obviously). YUMMY!!!

Obviously it was a busy couple days and the boys slept well that night!!!