Memorial Day Weekend

Woohoo! I love a good long weekend! We had so much fun together, eating entirely too much, and hanging out with Aaron, Meagan and girls. We are realizing more and more all the time how great it is to have family nearby to hang out with, and the cute lil' cousins are having so much fun together already! A few more wouldn't hurt(hint, hint to all the rest of our family too far away to play), but we sure do love having Emery and Ellison close by for Ash and Beck to play with. We BBQ'd two of the days, played games, visited the Butterfly Pavillion and stained the deck.
The deck thing wasn't fun, just totally necessary. Last week our deck was finished being built(good!) and stained(bad!) with 'Cedar' colored stain. Aye-yie-yie. No good. The color looked fine on the can, not so fine on our deck. Nothing but bright orange, plus our bedroom walls reflected the color too when the curtains were open. It had to be fixed asap, so Memorial Day was the day. Now we are SO happy with it, and the dark brown color it is currently sporting. Glad it's done.

That evening Aaron and Meagan came over and we just hung out and relaxed the day away. Our boys topped it off with running through the sprinklers. We turned them on for the benefit of the lawn, but they just couldn't resist. Beckett was chattering from the cold by the time he wanted to come in. Next time maybe we'll try to throw some swimsuits on them first...if we're fast enough. Cute Emery just looked on at the craziness of the boys and kept saying, "Dry." Yes, she was nice and dry. What a good girl!

P.S. These last pics are a few from our visit to the Explora Museum last week. Always a good time!