Weekend with the Smith's

First picture of all the grandkids together...pretty successful, thanks to Molly and photoshop!

We planned this weekend so that we could get us all together for a change and enjoy the outdoors. The only time we are all together for sure is sometime around Christmas, and we are stuck indoors. So we brought some outdoor activities and shared the weekend with the flies! Nana and Papa had their patio redone this spring as well, so this was the first hurrah with the patio as well. So we had bonfires and smores, celebrated Rowan and Kieran's birthdays, and the kids just got to play. Of course the dogs too. We left Gizmo off at Karen and Doug's so he was one less thing for us to worry about, although he sure would have loved to play with all the other dogs. Maybe next time.

Instead of having birthday cake, Nana had tons of ice cream for the kids. So we had ice cream both friday and saturday night. We brought the waterslide, but it wasn't really hot enough to use it. That hose water is frigid if it isn't super hot out. Rowan got to hold her new cousin Madden for the first time. I didn't get to hog him much as my son was a bit jealous and clingy most of the weekend. Aunt Jill joined us for the day on Saturday to hang out and catch up as well. Linda and Stud Muffin joined us on Saturday evening as well. So nice to be able to catch up with everyone.

We brought all the big kids bikes, and of course the lawn mower for Eddie. So they were busy riding bikes most of the time, or running in and out of the house letting millions of flies in. That is all we did all weekend was kill flies. Then Ed took all the big kids for rides on the tractor. Eddie was scared and wouldn't get near it.

I shouldn't say we didn't have cake, Nana made these delicious oreo brownies that we used to sing Happy Birthday to our now 4 and 5 year olds. Seems like yesterday we were doing the 1 and 2 year old celebrating at Nana and Papa's house.

The kids thankfully slept great. Not sure if it was all the outdoors and playing, or just that maybe they are getting old enough that they sleep ok away from home. I am thinking its the fresh air. Wish we could do this more often, the kids love playing with each other. Madden will be in the mix next year.