The Crawford Weekend

Our weekends have just been filled with fun!

This weekend started on Friday when I had to babysit for the Crawfords (our babysitting swap friends). So we got there at 9am and shortly after the parents left, I decided there was no way I was sitting at home with 5 kids the entire day. So I packed all 5 kids in the van ...

...and off to the park for a picnic lunch and some greatly needed energy burning time playing on all the jungle gyms!

We played, ate, then went home, took naps when Paul finally joined us. He also decided that staying at the house all night was doomed to be a disaster, so we took all 5 kids to the driving range to play at the putting greens, it was free so who could resist?!


After sweating and playing hard there, we went home, had dinner shortly before the adults came home to take over as Paul and I spent a night alone without kids.

The next morning, well, almost afternoon time since we slept in, we headed back over to the Crawfords and went to lunch with them at the Taco Bell/KFC where they had a huge indoor playground. The kids loved it. Almost too much, cuz they were all ready for naps. As the kids were put down, the Crawford adults left for a date night (since we owed them one from the previous week when their kid got sick). So again, we couldn't sit inside all night, so after I had a little fun giving all the girls matching pigtails...

...we took the kids and picked up Dominos and went downtown. We ate in the pavillion then walked around the downtown mall. Once everyone's legs were tired and patience growing short, we took a ride on the free trolley! The kids had a BLAST! None of us had ridden a trolley before so we all enjoyed it, minus the crazy driver lol. Then, since it was getting late, we went home, showered and put all the kids to bed for the night.

We had decided to all sleep over at the Crawfords and go to our church together in the morning, so that's just what we did. Woke up Sunday, ate, and off we went (I wish I would've gotten a picture of all the girls dressed up so nicely in their dresses together, but the camera had died the night before...tear). The Crawford girls had been asking and asking if they could go to church with us, so we couldn't resist, and I think they enjoyed themselves as they kept asking to go back every week hehe!

Now, it was time to depart from our friends. We dropped them off at home, then came home, ate and napped. After naps, we went to Community Group...needless to say it was not only a busy day, but weekend! We all had so much fun and we are SOOOO going to miss our new friends as the kids go back to Florida in August :(

But getting to bed Sunday night, ON TIME, was a HUGE relief to Mommy and Daddy :)