Friday night we had Charlie's next to last tee ball game. We've been tee balling since March with somewhere between two and four games a week. While I realize the season is coming to a swift close and I have ZERO pictures of my boys in their uniforms I am only human and can only do so much. Since this week is our last game for both boys I will attempt to remember my camera while running out the door trying my hardest to convince five kids to get in the van and get buckled without hurting each other. (More times than not this simple task of loading said van is not as simple as it sounds). Anyway, we ate out after tee ball at Petra, a short-order Mexican place.
Saturday we slept in -- yes, everyone slept in. It started raining sometime early in the morning and was still raining when we all aroused at almost 9 a.m. Clayton never really eats breakfast most mornings unless a Starbucks is considered breakfast but on Saturdays he LOVES to mess up every pan in my kitchen and cook a breakfast to feed our small army. Don't get me wrong, I do love to eat it, it's just that the cleanup can be time-consuming to say the least. Anyway, by the time we actually ate the breakfast it was more like lunch time so I let the boys have a "snack" for lunch...aka grapes, goldfish, apples, and cheese and crackers. Normally if I let them have any snacks with lunch that ends up being all they eat anyway so I figured I wasn't too far from the norm. Here they are enjoying their lunch:
Now, after being cooped up in the house all week with all the kids I get an itch to get out pretty much every weekend come rain or shine. Since it was raining I had the perfect excuse to ignore everything that needed doing around the house and head out for some shopping. Since Clayton loathes the mall I decided I'd hit him up for a trip to The Dump (a furniture store only open on weekends with SUPER prices). Just imagine five kids with enough stored up energy to power a small city inside a nice big furniture store....yeah, maybe not the best idea I've ever had. But we survived and managed not to buy a single thing b/c of above-mentioned energy. By then it was past time to eat so we headed to Manny's, one of our fave Mexican places here. Can you tell that there is no shortage of Mexican food where we live?
Sunday we went to church and decided to skip out on Sunday School b/c we did not have any breakfast and wer about to eat our arms off by the time service was over with. I was about to die for some vegetables since I can't remember the last time we've eaten any b/c I haven't cooked any and we've been eating out so much b/c of tee ball games. In most parts of the country there is a Cracker Barrel off every third exit on any major Interstate, right? Not here. While you can find at least five different choices of Mexican food every square mile the closest CB is 45 minutes from us! At this point I was seriously reconsidering our choice of local. Not that I don't like Mexican food, it's just on Sundays you really need some stick-to-your-bones kinda food....like chicken and dumplins or something along those lines. Anyway, we settled for The Cheesecake Factory and it was delicious as usual.
We all enjoyed a nice Sunday nap and went on a walk to the lake near our house and let the kids run around and play hide and seek. It was a beautiful day here! Come supper Clayton could not even try to think of eating out again. It's not that we really ate out that much this weekend it's just that we couldn't remember the last time ate in so we made breakfast. Come on, who doesn't like pancakes and syrup and a pound of bacon for supper?
So that was pretty much our weekend. We're real exciting I know!
