Monthly Archives: May 2015

My Favorite Weekend of the Year

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Memorial Day has always been my favorite holiday weekend of the year!  May is my absolute favorite month of the year so the long weekend in itself coupled with the warm weather and the unofficial start of summer, gets me excited regardless of what else is or is not planned for the rest of the weekend.  Add in Viva Vienna and Memorial Day Weekend Barbecues and I love everything about this weekend.
 
This Memorial Day Weekend the girls got to experience Viva Vienna twice.  Saturday afternoon Avery and Emerson got to go with my parents. Sunday afternoon, the whole family including Karolin went for a few hours.  The weather was perfect…not too hot, not too cold.  
 
Harper watched the girls on the first few rides and you could just tell she was itching to experience some of the rides herself.  After the girls rode a few, Justin took Harper on the chocho train, which was the first ride Avery and Emerson rode at Viva Vienna two years ago.  
I think she enjoyed getting to go on a ride herself. Avery and Emerson enjoyed watching their sister experience her first ride!
 
Harper got to go on a second ride…the carousel! She absolutely LOVED every minute and did not want to get off when the ride ended.
(Ignore the grumpy old lady in the background….I swear I was having a good time!)
 
Emerson was braver than Avery and tried several additional rides that Avery refused….the same rides that Avery had either gone on the previous day and disliked or had chosen not to go on the previous day as well.  That gave Emerson a chance to go on one ride solo and one ride with Daddy.  Look at this big girl!
Both girls really enjoyed the motorcycles and went on those a few times each.
We walked around and had ice cream for lunch!
Although as we were eating our ice cream, Emerson asked me what was for lunch.  When I told her ice cream, even though she enjoyed her ice cream, she didn’t seem to be satisfied with my answer. 
When we got  home from Viva Vienna, Harper threw up all over the kitchen floor.  This was actually the second time she had thrown up in two days. Not to mention she did have diarrhea twice earlier in the day, but I really didn’t think too much of it because she was acting her normal silly self including eating and drinking normally. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Harper woke up drenched in diarrhea (I know it was gross) that her spirit was gone and it was apparent that she didn’t feel well.  She didn’t eat all day and for the most part just wanted to cuddle and be held.  
When she did stand on her own for a few, it was usually only minutes or seconds later that she would crawl up and find a spot on the ground wherever she was to lay down and rest.She was so pitiful but it was so ridiculously precious at the same time. And just in case you are wondering, it took a few days but she is now back to her normal self.

Sunday Funday

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This past Sunday was truly a Sunday Funday.  Our morning started out rising early to go to our 4th Annual Foundation Fighting Blindness Vision Walk.  Emerson was actually the first to get up telling us that she wanted to get up early so we weren’t late to the Vision Walk.  While we woke early, it certainly wasn’t the crack of dawn.  I think it was about 7:15 and we still got out of the house fairly easily by 8:40…..granted we didn’t eat breakfast at home as we knew they would have cereal bars and fruit that the girls would eat at the event, but even so getting out of the house is becoming easier and easier.   We took both strollers although Emerson walked probably about 2/3 of the 3 mile walk mostly with Papa as her buddy.  We were so proud of her.  Avery would get out for seconds at a time only to get back in moments later.  Harper wanted to get out at times but we wouldn’t let her.  The weather was gorgeous and it really was a good energetic start to the day. On the way home, all girls soundly slept in the car seats for close to an hour.

Later that afternoon we went to Meadowlark.  Normally when I go to Meadowlark, I want to walk as much as I can but since we already had done quite a bit of walking already, I was a little more content to just enjoy stopping and doing whatever the girls wanted to stop and investigate.  Meadowlark was packed…I have never seen so many people there at once….we even had to park on the over flow parking area.  Anyway, the girls had a great time exploring and running around.

I tried to get their picture on “the bench” that Justin and I took our first pictures on as a married couple.

Here are some of my favorite pics from the afternoon.

While they enjoyed Meadowlark, they really wanted to go to a park that had swings so after Meadowlark we stopped at the local park by Trap road.  Justin and I were trying to recall if we had been there since having Harper and neither of us thought so.  It was really fun to see Harper climbing and going down the slides.  Every time she turned a corner, she would say to whoever was there…hello…it was super adorable. The girls had a great time and it warms my heart when they are having so much fun.

One highlight of the day was that I didn’t cook all day!  And we didn’t eat a single meal at our kitchen table.  We spend a lot of time prepping meals and cleaning up our kitchen and while I do enjoy cooking, every once in a while it is awesome to see just how much additional time can be spent doing other things doing the day when no cooking or eating occurs in our kitchen.  Breakfast and lunch were at the Vision Walk.  And we picked up some Chinese Food earlier in the day when we were out and we ate in the backyard on paper plates for dinner. Seriously not having to sweep the floor even once Sunday was pretty darn awesome.