See You in the Sky!

We had a great fourth of July weekend! We ventured out of town with our good friends, Bradey and Tiffney, who have a 15 month old little girl, Adi. They invited us to Bradey's home town which is the epitomy of 'small town Texas'.  In my mind, small town holidays equate to softball, food, swimming, freindly faces, fun and fireworks, it was great! His parents were out of town so we had the house, hanger and pool to ourselves all weekend. 

The late-night drive was quite an adventure...we did not pull out of the McDonalds parking lot (I love the iced coffee) unil 10:15pm and so it wasn't long before all three kids were sleeping. And it wasn't long after that before one would wake, waking another and so on and so on. Kayt got the sleeping award for the night because she was the only one who didn't wake up in the back and forth battle between Noah and Adi. It sprinkled on and off while we drove until we were about an hour outside of Rotan and then the floodgate sprung open and it poured. I mean POURED! We couldn't see the road, the two lane highway had no lights and no cars were in sight. It felt like a scene from a scary movie and I was waiting for a fake police officer to pull us over and chop our arms off! Or something like that.

When we finally arived at the house at end of the long gravel road, our sweet crazy friends realized they had left the house key on their kitchen table. No fear, Bradey's mom had left a spare by the pool. Bradey got the spare key, went in the front door, opened the garage and came out to start unloading kids. When we tried to open the door going into the house from the garage, it was locked. The door had locked behind him and the spare key was laying inside. He had locked the front door behind him so we were, once again, locked out of the house. We were standing outside in the pouring rain with three screaming kids, in the pitch black, in the middle of nowhere with no way into the house. Have I mentioned that it was almost 3 am? Bradey finally crawled in some box that took him into the fireplace and let us into the house. Aparently the crawlspace was nasty and bug infested, but I was just thrilled to be inside!

By this point, the kids were all wide awake so we were handing out snacks, exploring and playing with toys at 3:30 in the morning. It was wild! 

The kids and I slept in until almost 11 the next morning while the boys won their first softball game. 

Noah loved the taking the golf carts to look at the airplane, see the fish in the pond and drive up and down the runway. This first picture makes me laugh. Tiffney had a coke sitting in the cup holder and Noah LOVES Coke. While I was talking he stuck his little finger into her drink to taste it and then he couldn't resist, he dipped his entire hand into the Coke and is letting it drip onto his tongue. Mmmm, it's the real thing!

Isn't Adi precious? She is the funniest little girl, her expressions make me laugh so hard and I love her red hair.

And speaking of precious girls, I think this one is mighty cute!  

Clapping,


Crawling, & Waving, her favorite past times.

Bradey and Adi playing with fire.

Our sleeping beauty couldn't stay up late enough to experience her first fireworks, so it was just the three of us!
 

Noah liked the fireworks pretty well. He would call out the colors and yell "Oh Dang!" when a really neat one came. Everyone laughed when he would yell out and so then he put on a show. He started singing happy birthday to Dang, over and over. He was quite the little comedian. A few times he said, "I want to go inside now, I don't yike this," but then another firework would go off and he would be enthralled again. The fireworks show in this small town was spectacular and long; it lasted over 45 minutes.

Noah wouldn't take any pictures with his sister on the 4th so the best I could do was sneak a few in the next morning. Gold Fish in the pool, only fitting.

Country fun!

Isn't this cute?!.

Noah wanted to take this picutre. He said "take a picture of that flower and I'll tell that flower to say cheese!"  I think it's smiling, don't you?

And the super cool big airplane. When we left Noah wanted to go see the airplane one last time. He told the airplane "Bye-bye airplane. See ya in the sky!"

We had a great weekend and loved spending time with our friends. I was quite impressed with Rotan, Texas and all it had to offer. 

Since we've been home we have been going and going, which is no surpise. I've been workin on a few projects and needed touch-ups around the house, which is a surprise.  

p.s. Happy Birthday to my brother, Blake! We love you!!!

Todd, Noah & Blake

    Christmas 07'