Lovely Weekend

Finally Friday arrived for the kids, and Carson's much anticipated Birthday Sleepover was here! Both Nick and Lauren were counting down the days till the big night. In fact, Lauren even told the Dental Hygenist about her big night! Lauren's first 'real' sleepover and she's only 4! Carson had invited Nick over to spend the night as well, and he and Colton were to be the ONLY boys allowed. Turns out, Colton woke up Friday morning with strep throat. OH NO! I was on a mission to make sure Nick would not have to spend his night with boring Mom and Dad. Thank God for Samantha...who promptly invited Nick over to spend the night with Samuel once she heard the bad news...poor Colton was down with strep, but that didn't get Nick down!

I raced to pick up the kids, drop them at their intended spots for the night and met Ryan for our date at Chili's...at 7:15 pm.** While Ryan and I had a great dinner and watched a movie at home,* Lauren hung right with those 8 year old girls...right up to about midnight when she crashed. The 8 year olds were up till 3 am! Lauren said the played fashion show, headbanz, and danced. She loved it.

Nick and Samuel had a great time as well playing the Wii, Buck fever board game, and watching movies.

The rest of the weekend was filled with grocery shopping, fixing my Van's belt in the Walmart parking lot, missing Nick's basketball game due to a missing van key, finishing up the kid's bathroom (drywall, new light, new mirror, cleaning), laundry, cleaning, 7 mile run on Sunday (go me...next week is 8 miles!)***, and some relaxing with the family.

All in all it was a lovely weekend.

NOTES:

*We had a free trail HBO ALL WEEKEND! SCORE! Free movies all weekend long...and yes, we took advantage of it. I learned how to 'train a dragon' on Saturday night with the kids and also got to watch adult movies after the kids were in bed. Fantastic!

**Jamie told me that when all the girls were sitting down eating dinner on Friday night, Lauren leaned over and said to Jamie 'you want to know a secret?' 'My mommy and daddy are on a date!'. Jamie said Lauren just giggled about it. That girl is sweet and cute.

***In 7 weeks I will be running the Virginia Beach Shamrock 1/2 Marathon. 13.1 mile race!