Fun Pre-Weekend Trip

So the boys and I just got back from a fun pre-weekend trip. We went down to go see some friends of ours. We met Davina and her husband Aaron at church when they were going to school here. Fast forward about 5 years and they now have three kids and we obviously have the two boys. Anyhow, Aaron works away from home during the week and Tj had an overnight so we (Davina and I) decided to that I would go visit them and have a slumber party. Five kids against two moms- it could have been a disaster. But it went really well. The three older kids played pretty well together- although Alyssa the oldest was quite upset that Joel was not 5 like her.

So we got there about lunch time on Thursday. Joel of coursed crashed in the car on the trip down there. So he napped while the rest of us had lunch. Then Davina took Alyssa to a doctor's appointment while the rest of the kids napped. After nap time we all went to the park. It was a little chilly with the breeze but the kids had a ball. But with two babies out in the wind we decided it would be better to head home where the babies could be inside while the kids ran around outside. So home we went. We put the babies down for naps and the big kids played outside with some of the neighbors while the moms all chatted. It was really fun. Joel rode around on a power wheels jeep for a long time. Practicing for when Grampa Clause buys him one of his own- lol. Then it was dinner time and bath time. Davina has these really cute towels and after all the kids were out of the bath I got this picture of them.

Duck, Elephant and Rabbit
aka
Alyssa, Joel and Rebecca

Then on Friday we all got up and headed over to the zoo. It was really pretty fun. Towards the end the kids had had it. And of course Joel didn't even make it back to the house before he crashed. But it was a fun time.

"Explorer Joel" and the snake.

Joel feeding the giraffe crackers.

Mommy and Joel with the giraffes.

Vance hanging out in the stroller. He didn't really
"get" the whole zoo thing but he loved being outside!

The kids: Joel, Alyssa and Rebecca.


Overall it was a really fun trip. And now it's on to the normal 'weekend' activities.