I spent my 32nd birthday weekend taking the girls to visit my life-long friend, Sarah B in Dayton. We had SUCH a great, relaxing weekend! It was truly wonderful! Dan gave me an awesome new point-n-shoot camera for my birthday, but I had the settings all wrong this first time I was using it (imagine that - it's different than a professional camera! Ha ha!)... so the photos aren't great but the memories are!!!
We spent the first afternoon walking to the park with Sarah and her wonderful husband, Josh. Sarah and Josh are both teachers, so it goes without saying they are wonderful with kids and definitely two of my kids' favorite people to visit!!!
The park near their house has this amazing, huge slide! We brought wax paper with us (to make it even faster) and took turns going down... so fun!
We went out for pizza...
And Sarah baked a birthday cake for me & they sang! So sweet!!! Thanks, Sarah!
Bedtime stories...
Art projects in the morning...
And one last trip to the park for a Taco Bell picnic lunch before heading home! :)
Sarah and Josh, thank you so much for having us! Sarah, I am so glad we are still such close friends after over 25 years!!!! You always take my kids in as your own, and you are family to us!!! We love you!!!!
We spent the weekend before Halloween at Aunt Vi's house. A bonfire with hot dogs and smores, a haunted forest, and parade of costumes has become an annual tradition, thanks to Ed and Vi throwing this party for many, many years. This was the first year without Uncle Ed there (he passed in a car accident in August), which made this particular visit somewhat sad and definitely made it different, but we still enjoyed being there very much.
The kids after the "Monster Mash Parade"...
