In the morning, we took the kids to the splash pad--our way of a prior apology before we spent the afternoon immured in the condo waiting for our car to get a recall part installed at the Honda dealership.
Tuesday, after just a brief stopover at home Monday night, we were off again, this time for a short trip up north, mostly to go to Lagoon. (Still trying to use those season passes!) We were sad not to have cousins with us this time, but it was nice on the return trip to feel a lot less pressure to get everything in. We mostly just went on the rides we wanted to. However, because there's a pretty sizeable gap between the rides Oliver likes and the rides everyone else likes, I spent a lot of time watching Oliver on rides. (Which I didn't mind, because he was generally so happy about them). Also, I had the camera most of the time, which means, lots of Oliver pictures.
Of course, by 5:30 this is how everyone was feeling. Luckily, a very kind friend of mine had invited us over for dinner, so we had a lovely barbeque and conversation before driving home (all of the kids crashed on the drive back, especially the napless wonder here).
The tie-dye shirts are an idea I borrowed from my sister-in-law: we made the shirts for FHE two weeks ago, and then wore them to the park. We coordinated without being perfectly matchy, and it made it easy to spot the kids.
We've spent the rest of the week recovering, playing with friends, and trying to clean our house. Yesterday, we did take a short break to drive down to SG (again), where we saw Bubby and Poppy at lunch at Red Robin, and then I got to go to a book signing for a couple of author friends: Krista Van Dolzer (middle grade author) and Shallee McArthur (YA sci-fi).
Today has been a bunch of church meetings and dinner with Bubby and Poppy. You can guess which part I enjoyed best.
School starts this week, which is surprisingly bitter sweet. I'm ready for the kids to go back to school (we need the structure!), but our summer is over.
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