Whirlwind Weekend

Just about a month ago we moved in across the street from our friends, the Odoms. For those of you who don't know them, you can "meet them" HERE. :) The kids have been really excited about the possibility of coming over. This past Thursday, I picked up the kids in the evening for a sleepover. Let the adventure begin!! Let me lead by saying, these kids are VERY GOOD!! If I hadn't already known that, I wouldn't have been nearly brave enough to keep all three for two days! Rich took David to a hobby store to get a chemistry kit. If you don't know the two of them, I don't know how to explain how significant this was for them. :) I took the girls to the market to pick up some items for their dinner of choice--pizza, salad, and ice cream. Tori made her own salad (very cute!) and we had dinner. By that time the boys were home and watched Megamind. As cute as it was, it wasn't nearly as cute as all the kids' comments!! The girls were out about 11:30, but David stayed up chatting till about 2am!! The next morning I made pancakes for breakfast. After a little time cleaning up the house, we spent the day at the pool!! All in all I kept the house fairly clean, but I definitely fell behind on laundry! Saturday night they came over again for a few hours. Love those little munchkins!!

Sunday we had Family Fun Night at FBC. Somehow I found time to go shopping AND make a giant dutch oven full of pizza casserole for the potluck. We had a great time!! There were 130 people there which is a lot for us! I got to take my first real hayride (very exciting) and just as we were getting to the end of the ride, some wire got stuck round the tire. Then it started pouring!!! I kept weighing the options: wade through possible cow poo, or get rained on. Since my hair was curly anyway, initially I decided just to be soaked. But it can REALLY rain in Florida! So, Tiffany, Natalie, Jenny and I ended up making a run for it!! A hilarious end to our hayride. :)

Today I caught up on laundry. This afternoon Rich and I took the computer to the Apple Store at Galleria Mall to get a new charging cord. On the way home I convinced him to stop at Pizza Fusion for dinner. The look on his face was comical. "Earth friendly, organic, fresh pizza" is the probably the last thing that Rich would want to eat. He's really a meat and potatoes kinda guy. When we got out of the car we smelled an AMAZING bbq smell!! It was coming from Texas Hold 'Em BBQ. Amazing!! We had baby back ribs, chicken, hush puppies, collard greens, and baked beans. It was by far the most down-home, finger-licking BBQ we've had in a looooong time! 

Finally I'm just catching up with all my social media after my computer has been dead 5 days. 

Happy Memorial Day and thank you to those who serve in our military!!