Recapping the Weekends

I know a lot of times the stories you read on here are probably

all "you had to be there type moments" but I think (hope?) that you'll

indulge me some more as I recount the last two weekends.

 

It all began two weeks ago on Papa Rob and I's

fifth wedding anniversary! First of all - can you believe

it's been five years??!! The longest shortest years of my life.

Anyway, we invited my parents and sister over for a

a barbeque and I broke out the selfie stick.

Because I was a one woman party planning committee,

I made sure we had all the good stuff -

cheddy brats (as my mom likes to say),

deviled eggs, macaroni salad, chips, and

brownies with icing.

 Afterward we all went to the park.

This particular park is super close by and

Max had us running races all over the place

and then would get consequently pissed

when he did not "win".

 

Then on Sunday, I forced us (Max and I) on my sister again.

How you ask?  Oh, I just suggested we

accompany her to the grocery store.

She should be a saint.

She let Max dictate where to

put all the groceries (even if it meant smashing her

bread) and she even bought me a bagel at Panera!

 

 

Literally, I will do anything to get out of the house

sometimes. Call me up - we are really fun to

go grocery shopping with.

 

We left my sister's and I dropped Max off

to hang with Papa Rob while I got a gel manicure.

When I returned home, we proceeded to get out

every piece of toddler outdoor yard equipment.

First came the slide and then of course the

pool.  This led to putting on a bathing suit.

 

 

 

 Then he found the bag with all the sand toys and

pool toys...and in the pool they went.

There was barely room for him to stand up.

 Just slightly out of the picture are the

picnic table (with umbrella), sand table,

tee ball set, and part of a swing set.

Do we know how to have a good time or what??

 

 When we were all finished with the pool,

Max helped me water all the plants.

He was such a good helper!  He filled up the

buckets and would run over to the plants

and give them a "little drink".

 

We capped off the Sunday with happy hour, grilling out

and one tired kid. No complaints here though.

 

This (past) weekend, our family hair stylist

mentioned that she might be bringing her family to the zoo.

So, in order to stay her favorite client, Max and I rushed

over to leave her some free admission tickets :)

Of course, we couldn't leave without having

a little fun ourselves!

We hit up both the train ride and the pony ride

in North America. At first, Max said he was scared of

the train when he saw it, conceded to give it a try.

The ponies he needed no convincing for.

I was such a proud Mama watching him

hop on that pony!

 

 We also visited all of the best playgrounds....

Max calls the (below) one - the letter playground.

It has all the words for what animals need in a habitat.

Food, Water, Shelter, and Space.

Max LOVES to climb on the words and jump

off the ends. Not pictured was the Polar Playground...which

I think might be his new favorite.

 

 Saturday evening, my mom ended up giving me her

ticket to the Garth Brooks show. She was originally

supposed to go with Stacy. You may recall that I saw

him in Cleveland back in October....  He is really such

an amazing performer. I jumped at the chance to see him again.

(And since I was the one who purchased their tickets in

the first place...it worked out well :)

 The craziest thing happened when we got there.

Stacy and I had just got off the escalator (on our way to

our nose bleed seats....300 level...) A man approached

us and explained that he worked for Garth.

He asked first if "it was just the two of us".

We responded "yes". Then, he offered us two

floor level seats.  THREE ROWS FROM THE STAGE.

He explained that Garth usually "comps" several seats in

each of the rows upfront. But, we were totally skeptical.

The whole time we kept going "is this real life?"

"Are we about to get punked?". But, we made our

way down and the usher didn't laugh in our face when

we showed him the tickets.

And then we got to enjoy about three hours of one of the

best musical performances I have ever seen. Seriously.

It was just the best.  He played every single hit. And there

were many. He even brought out his wife Trisha Yearwod.

Stacy made legitimate eye contact with her (we were that close).

I mean, would you look how freaking close we were?? He was

practically sweating on me.

 

All that partying hard on Saturday night - didn't 

slow us down on Sunday.

We were out in the yard by 10:00 on Sunday morning.

Again, we hauled out all the yard toys....

focusing mainly on the sand box this time.

Auntie Stacy and Penny also stopped by.

Penny was loving running around in the backyard.

And doing some light sunbathing. Max

was loving having someone else to boss around.

He likes to hit the ball and then tell you to run after

it and fetch it. He does get irritated when it

doesn't go as far as he wants it to.

He has decided not to take my advice on 

"practice makes perfect".

 Field of dreams right here folks.

  Auntie Stacy and Penny left (though not after

a scuffle between Penny and Pecan)...and Max and I

headed to the park for a picnic lunch. We needed

to give daddy some time to put the finishing touches

on the swing set.

 

 By the time Max got up from his nap - the swing set was finished!

Sidenote: we purchased the swing set used on a Facebook

selling wall. We were able to borrow a vehicle from work

to transport it back to our house. Papa Rob has been

working really hard since last weekend on reassembling it

and getting it level in our (very) sloped backyard.

 Max loves it...in particular the rock climbing wall

and slide. We've been calling it his "clubhouse".

 Look at that sly grin! What a goof!

 

So, in conclusion - our weekends have been

very full and fun! Just the way I like them.

With a healthy dose of visits to Auntie Stacy's house

and park visits thrown in. :)

Speaking of - here's a little video clip of

Max and Stacy on a slide at the park!

p.s. We got Chipotle last night for dinner (with Stacy)

and Max insisted on taking the cup in his room last night

(in case he got thirsty). Tonight, he proclaimed that he

flushed the straw down the toilet (while I was getting his

bath ready). Ugh..... boys!

xoxo