Sorry. We have been pretty busy this month. I know you all wait with bated breath to see when I am going to post a new blog, so here I am.
We have been busy, really. My family is waiting for me to post pictures from the wedding in NC and they are coming, just not right now. I have also been working on the BIRTHDAY BASH that is coming up on August 2. The festivities begin around 1pm. We hope that you can all be there. What else has been keeping us so busy you ask? Well.... let me fill you in.
July 9 we began by loading up the car super early and then headed to Grace's tutor at 8am. While she was there we swung back home and picked up the dog. We picked up Grace at 9 and were on our way to Grandma Adams'. We had lunch, left the boys and the dog and headed to Grandma Wyckhuys' where Grace got to swim for a few hours before we hit the road for Winterville, NC. We stopped around 10:30pm just north of Marietta.
July 10 we were on the road by 8:30am and arrived at Rachelle's by 7pm. A very long trip!! We stopped several times for gas, meals and stretching. The girls did great thanks to a portable DVD player. We unfolded ourselves from the car, said HI to everyone at Rachelle's then got back in the car to go to dinner. We ate at a favorite Mexican place.
July 11 we got up slowly, repacked the car and headed an hour west to Wake Forest, NC, where the reception and hotel were for the wedding. We spent the day & evening in the pool. Grace is a fish!! Sarah, not so much. Peyton used the swimmy thing I brought for Sarah since Sarah wanted nothing to do with it. No, I got to hold her and swim, she really liked that. Dinner this night was an absolutely brilliant idea. We ordered a party package from a local Barbecue place. We got fried chicken, pulled pork, Cole slaw, potato salad, sweet tea and hush puppies, enough to feed an army! For $10 a person we had dinner and lunch the next day!
July 12 we spent the morning in the pool, had a great leftover lunch then got ready for the wedding and reception. The wedding was beautiful and the reception was very nice. Very Southern too. No dinner and it only lasted about 4 hours. They had finger food and snacks, cake, drinks and other neat things. There was dancing, all the traditional stuff, and a send off. We were back at the hotel by 8:30pm, where the kids swam and we adults hung around and talked until nearly midnight, well some of us left a little earlier, Grace was falling asleep in a lounge chair.
July 13 we got up slowly again. We enjoyed a hot breakfast at the hotel then headed back to Rachelle's house. Here we had a birthday party for Sarah and Grace. Grace got to see Camp Rock on Disney and the young adults played tailgate golf. (See my dad's pics for more)
July 14 we were up really early and left Rachelle's by 7am. We drove all day!! We arrived back in Clinton Township by 11pm. It was a long ride, but again the girls did great. This time we had two DVD players thanks to Aunt Rachelle lending us hers.
July 15 - Sarah's Birthday we took our time getting up and packing again. Grace swam again in the pool and after lunch we headed back to Grandma Adams' to get the boys and the dog. We were home in Hillsdale by 4:30pm. We picked up a pizza (where my drivers side window wouldn't work), ate the pizza, unloaded the car and made it to the ball field by 7pm for the twins baseball game! That was another crazy long day!!
July 16 we unpacked, cleaned house and just relaxed for the day!!!
July 17 we played at the Weidmeyers for the morning and then we had a ball game in the evening. A comparatively easy day.
July 20 Sunday! I worked in the nursery at both services, since everyone who volunteers is out of town. The good thing is that I only had like 3 kids besides mine all morning. That made it bearable.
July 21 Doug traveled to Ft. Wayne for a funeral and the kids and I hung around the house and played and cleaned up.
July 22 Grace had a tutoring session while the rest of us played on the playground. The twins had a ball game in the evening.
July 24 was another tutoring session and ball game. Doug had a funeral to do here in town. When he got back he went promptly to bed. I had a feeling he was getting sick!
July 25 Grace had a tutoring session then we went to the hair dresser where I got my hair highlighted and cut. It looks so much better. We left the house at 9:45 and didn't get home till 2pm. Then we shopped for the church's Ice Cream social, set it up, had dinner and went back for ice cream. We had a small attendance, but it is the middle of the summer. I wasn't expecting too many anyway. Doug stayed home because well, he is sick AGAIN!! Fever, aches, dry heaves, loads of fun!!!
July 26 brings us to today. Doug is still under the weather. I hope he can recover enough to finish his sermon for tomorrow. He is alone at church this weekend because Pastor Dan is out of town until Tuesday. The twins are at a 4-H camp with a friend from school. They are probably going to come home wanting livestock!! Daniel slept in until nearly 9am this morning. Either he was really tired or he is getting sick. Hopefully he is just tired, we have been busy!!!!!
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