family ties

our weekend was a good one... Full of family time....well, a full smaller family filled weekend anyway.  We lost our biggest baby to his big daddy.... He called his big daddy friday afternoon

"um, big daddy, i was wondering...can you come get me, i want to go with you to the lake? oh and we need to do some work and burn some stuff, right?"

And KNOW you all are shocked, big daddy headed RIGHT over, gave a minute to the little boys and the big boys high tailed it to lake martin for yet another fun filled weekend of swimming, see-do riding, boat riding/driving, burning large piles of "stuff" (what is it with boys and burning things???), fishing games with our aunt holly, checkers games, and all kinds of fun things the lake house brings.... THis weekend it also brought our FAMOUS uncle chris, aunt holly, and the best baby EVER baby caroline..... smitten he was with his company!   I was glad to get him back sunday night in my arms; although, i gotta admit....TWO children made for a breezy weekend- that 1:1 ratio of parent/child seems to easy.....
we had some fun of our own staying in town.... an old mill party friday night to which i received an early email

"Amy, you and your counterpart seemed to be having a BLAST last night"  it said other things too and i coulda  read into that with a 

1. what were we doing that was so noticed  

2. did we over serve one another 

3. did anyone else think that

but i didn't read into it AT ALL and replied, "we did, the band was great and it was good to see you too", she too was a dear friend who meant nothing but the sweet offer to bring us dinner one night..... Us, girls, have a way of dissecting anything and EVERYTHING said to us.... MUST NEVEr DO tHAT again....its bad for your health!!  Anyway, so saturday morning i tackled TWO weeks of laundry and ironing with lots of daddyc's help, we breaked to take our little boys to the zoo or lack thereof due to the construction zones involved..... And later that afternoon we took to a friend's family bbq event, great friends, adorable children everywhere and good food. PERFECt!!!  Sunday, we made it to church ON TIME...see miracles DO HAPPEN....  there were a total of 5 GIRLS in our sunday school class (4 year old girls, remember my monkey was out of town) and daddyc and i did NOT know what to do with ourselves.....the quietness, CALMNESS, attention to the craft at hand, intently listening to the lesson, and placing the stickers RIGHT where you ask them too.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GIRL MAKES?  in my next life i may have all girls but for now, i will enjoy my extremely LOUD, stinky, DIRtY, crazy, WILD, Mama's boys.   Needless to say, we were in awe of the difference in their actions and it was a nice morning to reflect our Lord when normally we can not hear ourselves talk....... so that was my weekend of family ties.... i did take some photos but don't feel like including them, you understand don't you?  i really wanted to pull the CUUVVVAAASSS (thats my middle baby's way of saying covers, so old south he is) back over my head but instead i will funnel this coffee and take to the trails in this muggy weather the day brings.....Not complaining my green grass is a shade of yellow and needs rain.