In your face

It was another fun and full weekend due to my sister Emily’s visit for the weekend. You’d think she lives across the world the way we all celebrate when she comes. In reality she lives about 2 hours from us, but still, we love it.

She arrived at Sara’s house Friday night around 7. I couldn’t wait to go visit everyone. My mom and dad would be there too. So we all hung out for a few hours at Sara’s house, just letting the kids play and sitting around. Steve and my dad went to get ice cream, which may have resulted in some blue stains in Sara’s carpet. Ew. Hope that comes out. Sara jokes that she’s going to burn her house down when her kids are older anyway. She said it will be destroyed by that time anyway.

Also, Sara told a funny story about how at London’s daycare she had been having show-and-tell every week for months and Sara didn’t know about it. So London has been showing her Dora blanket every single week. Sara thought she better go big next week and joked that she should bring in her brother Finn in for show-and-tell and say “In your face!” Well my dad thought this was hilarious, and the rest of the weekend he would use the phrase “in your face” often, even when it didn’t fit the situation at all.

After taking Ella home I went back over to have some sister time with Sara and Emily. We had some cocktails and just sat and talked in Sara’s kitchen. Before I knew it, it was 1:30 a.m. Crazy late! I went home and went straight to bed.

In the morning, I begged Steve to get up with Ella. And he did. Thank goodness. But by 8 a.m. Ella came barging in looking for me. I begged for more time. At 8:30 I got up to relieve Steve and he went back to bed. Ella and I played and by 9ish I could tell she was ready for a nap. I put her down, and planned to have lunch as soon as she got up, then we would need to hit the grocery store. My brother was having a Father’s Day get together at his house Saturday night and I was to bring veggies and dip, so I needed to get that among other things. Also, I had invited Em, Sara and the kids to come over to my house at 1 p.m. to walk to the pool in our subdivision. So we were on a tight schedule!

Ella was still sleeping at 11:30. I decided I would need to leave for the store by noon to get back by 1, so there wasn’t really time for me to feed her lunch before we left. So, I decided I’d go without her. She was a tired girl. She rarely sleeps more than 1 hour at a time. But of course as I was getting ready I walked by her room and she sprung up from her bed. I took her down and got her started on lunch then left her with daddy.

I was really runnning behind – I got home at ten minutes til 1, so I was happy that my sisters and the kids were running late too. I had to change into a swimsuit, change Ella, pack a bag, clean up from lunch …. By 1:30 or so, we too off for the pool. It’s really nice to have one in our subdivision. Yeah, it would be great to have your own, but I would be too scared having a little kid and a pool out back. So, it’s perfect now.

Ella and Finn seemed content most of the time behind held in the water. London had the time of her life. She repeatedly wanted to jump in, making Aunt Emmy catch her. She loves Aunt Emmy. Sara and I compare her to our Aunt Jeannie. She was the youngest of our aunts and she lived in Georgia, so it was always really neat to see Aunt Jeannie. Emily is London’s Aunt Jeannie. Sara kept joking that she hoped Em didn’t want to relax at all. Em was busy playing with London a lot of the pool time. And also Em mentioned there was an incident where London may have gotten into Em’s lipstick and put it all over her face! Oops.

It was about 3 when we decide to leave the pool. And it was a good thing we didn’t stay a minute longer. We had to leave at 4:30 for the Father’s Day party, and it took us all the whole time to get our crews around. Luckily Ella napped for me the whole time, but I still was busy getting cleaned up and ready.

The party was fun. It coincided with their neighborhood block party so there was a huge bouncy house there and also the small bouncy house that belongs to Nate and Rachel. Ella had a lot of fun. I was tired though. And it was still so hot out.

We left around 8, and that night Emily was staying with me and we stayed up talking and watching tv for awhile but by 11, I was beat and went to bed.

The next day we were all invited over to my mom’s house for lunch at noon. We all kinda slept late so the morning went very fast and we left around 11:30 for my mom’s. We had a nice time there. Of course she had all these awesome new dishes she was trying out and a new playhouse for the kids, so it was pretty dreamy being over there. We kept talking about leaving – Emily would have a two hour drive ahead of her and Ella needed a nap, but it’s so hard to leave Grandma’s house. The endless stream of good food (that you don’t have to cook yourself) and the change of scenery is so nice. Plus it’s in the country so you feel like there’s just so much space and so many places to go.

Once in the kitchen, my mom pulled out another delicious treat and said “I made a peanut butter pie.” My dad excitedly replied “Oh! In your face!”

We left around 4ish, and Em loaded up and left when we got back. The rest of the night we were pretty lazy around my house. It was a busy, but fun weekend. We loved it. And now I’m going to go rest for awhile. A certain little girl used her powerful good looks and capacity for yelling for long periods of time to score a night in bed with mom and dad – so we didn’t sleep too good last night …