Memorial Day Weekend

What a busy week! We are all still adjusting to life with a new baby in the house. Matt and I are also adjusting to being outnumbered!! All the kids are doing great. Brenna is growing like a weed and eating like crazy. She is more alert than ever and loves to look at our faces. She is working on smiling and gives tentative, half-smiles now and again. She does smile and giggle while she is sleeping which is adorable. Chloe is growing way too fast and can have an attitude to match. She has been testing boundaries big time lately (she was doing this even before Brenna's birth). So please pray with us that we can all make it through the latest phase without too much drama! Aidan is a giant walking band-aid. The boy plays hard, what can I say. His poor knees are bruised and cut up, his hands aren't much better. His forehead is generally sporting a new bruise also. But I will give him credit, he cries for a moment than keeps on going.

We had a great weekend. Nice and relaxing which we all needed. Saturday was gorgeous despite the weather man's predictions of rain. It was sunny and warm. So warm in fact that we broke out the brand-new sprinkler for the kids. They had so much fun playing in it. Our backyard now looks like a child's paradise with the playhouse and play set. We also have a plastic playhouse and toddler size plastic play set that we've had since Chloe was little in the yard. So there is lots of stuff for them to play on.





Sunday we went to church and than went to Nana and Poppa's house for a barbecue and movies on the big screen. Poppa took Chloe home with him right after church. The rest of us attempted to nap a bit in the afternoon (unfortunately our new neighbors are anything but considerate about the amount of noise they make) so we cut nap time short and headed out to Nana and Poppa's house. Aidan was thrilled to be outside and was all over the place. Chloe was riding her bike and picking on dad. Both of them got to dig in the garden and get completely filthy before the end of the day. After a delicious barbecue dinner we headed inside and watched movies. It was a late night for all of us but so much fun!!