Before I start the weekend recap, I’ll back up to Thursday,
when our youngest nephew Colin graduated from Kindergarten! His school
put on the cutest 45 minute program for parents and family members.
They recited poems….
Sang songs….
Received their “diplomas”….
And
then they decided to give this kid a mic and let him dismiss everyone.
He had been telling us for weeks, “I’m going to say something at the
end, but I can’t tell you what.” He had quite the little speech he
memorized for the end. He thanked everyone coming, gave everyone
instructions on how and where to pickup their kids, signing them out for
the afternoon, and finally dismissed everyone from the gym. It was
impressive for a 6 year old.
Now,
on to the weekend! We had been promising our nephews that they could
spend the night at some point for several weeks, and this weekend just
worked out for everyone. We had also promised to take them to the movies
for Colin’s birthday. We just combined it all into one weekend.
Stephen plays softball on Friday
nights at a field not far from my sister & BIL’s house, so he
dropped the boys off to us at the ballpark. Colin immediately was
“thirsty” and then decided to “find the perfect rock for my seat.” I
swear….the stuff he comes up with cracks me up. Riley’s favorite seat is
in the dugout with the big boys where he can run and go pickup homerun
balls over the outfield fence.
The rock seat didn’t last long……
In
previous years when Stephen has played ball, two of his really close
friends were also on the team and their wives would come to all the
games. We’d sit and chat every Friday
night and had the best time while the guys played. This season those
guys aren’t playing, so I sent this picture to the girls during the game
telling them I was having a great time with all my friends at the game…
It’s just not the same…but group messaging them during the game was a close 2
nd.
After the games, (yes…gameS…they play two back-to-back every Friday)
the boys begged to play at the playground for a little while. It was a
beautiful night and not completely dark yet, so we let them run around
and play for a while before we headed home.
Once
we got home, Stephen & I tag-teamed on making dinner and giving
baths. Then it was time for pj’s, baking cookies, a Netflix movie
annnnnd then, two sleepy boys willingly went to bed!
The
next morning, Colin asked if he could put “color” in the scrambled
eggs. He assured me that “it will not change the taste of the eggs, it
will just make them green…but you will not taste green.”
The
rest of the morning, they played around the house and then we hit the
movies to see “Tomorrowland”. There were no “kid” movies at the theater
this weekend, so they picked the only one they were interested in. It
was a GREAT movie. Stephen and I LOVED it. The boys SAID they liked it,
but we’re not so sure that they followed everything that was going on.
And it was long. They both started getting squirmish in their seats. But
I would recommend it!
After
the movies, we took them home but not before stopping at the new Snow
Cone place! No pictures to prove it, so just imagine two little boys…one
with lips stained blue, the other one BRIGHT yellow.
We
LOVE spending time with our nephews. I am the only aunt that they have;
which is weird to me because my sister & I had 7 aunts and uncles
growing up. I know how special my relationship is with some of my aunts,
and I want to be that with my own nephews now. They’re only little
once, and I want them to have these fun memories with us as they grow
up.
As exciting as that was, the rest of our weekend was fairly low-key. We came home
Saturday
night and made
Mix & Match Mama’s Turkey Caprese Burgers for
dinner. GOSH…these ARE. SO. GOOD. This was our second time making them
and they did not disappoint. Quick, easy & DELICIOUS! (If you click
the link to the recipe, we add garlic and Italian seasoning to the meat
mixture and balsamic as a topping to the finished product!)
Sunday we had three gorgeous light pink roses that were fully bloomed!
Just
last Fall, we debated on getting rid of the rose bush because at that
point, we had lived here for five months, and it hadn’t done anything
but just look like an eye sore on the front of the house. I had a gut
feeling that it MIIIIIGHT just be beautiful, so we decided to give it
one year and see what happened. After all, the lady who owned the home
for 30 years before us was an older, widow lady and let’s face it, older
ladies just have a knack for green thumbs…so there MUST be something
great about this rose bush.
Well, now I have these on my kitchen table and 30 more buds that will be blooming any day!
(I’m glad we kept Ms. Reba’s roses…….but her 27 windchimes left behind HAD to go. Roses stay. Windchimes go. Bless her.)
We ended the weekend having dinner with friends in their new home and four loads of laundry. It’s a glamorous life we lead. HA!
Come back tomorrow for a yummy chocolate cake recipe!
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