Busy, busy, busy

We've had quite a couple busy weeks in a row. We've been over to Atlanta, back to SC, down to Jacksonville, back to SC, back over to Atlanta, and now we're back in SC. Apparently, we're not aware that gas is nearly $4 a gallon!


** You'll notice Aidan is missing in many of these pictures. It is because he would NOT leave his cousin's side long enough for me to take a picture!**

• Aidan had his last day of school. He keeps telling me he doesn't have to go back. I haven't had the heart to tell him yet that he's in Summer school. I'm hoping the two week break from it will be enough, and he'll be ready to go back to his friends and teacher. On his last day, I went outside to discover my tire flattened completely in to the driveway with a huge nail in the sidewall. What an expensive adventure that morning turned in to!
  
• Loddy (our fish) turned one. Aidan helped make a cake for him, and then he decorated it (ate the icing). It was an octopus cake (closest we had to a "fish theme") that Aidan painted purple. It was delicious!
  
• The boys and I went to a Military Appreciation Day Festival and had a blast! It was a completely free festival to honor the military families here in our area. They played in bounce houses, got their faces painted, played games and ate grilled hamburgers (my favorite!). Where was Jared? Ironically enough, he had to work that Sunday.
  
• During our trip to Jacksonville, the boys had a fun trip to a hands on kids' museum with their cousins. They had a great time with all of the different toys, and we painted them from head to toe with sanitizer on the way out.
  
• They also got to go in the pool for the first time this season. Aidan loved it, but Austin wasn't sure. He screamed when I tried to let him go... this from the child that sticks his face in a baby pool (look for that picture!). They got to play with Grandpa, Grandma, and Austin got to meet his Great Uncle Don for the first time!
  
• During our trip to PTC, Aidan never left his cousin's shadow. His cousin, who is four years older than he is, was a great trooper about it! After a fun weekend with bubbles, pool time, rides on the golf cart, desserts (Austin ate three cookies for dinner the last night we were there), and lots of time with Nana & Guka celebrating Memorial Day, the boys did not want to come back home, and Jared and I did NOT want to put them back in the car again!
• One little funny... at one time this past weekend during our Memorial Day party, someone said something about going to down to the basement to play pool. Well, Aidan apparently thought they meant the swimming pool because he immediately pulled down his pants and underwear and asked for his swim shorts. He did this in the middle of the living room in front of neighbors and all! :-)
  
  Austin added a few new words: Grandpa, Grandma, Guka, and golf cart... He also says, "Bless" now whenever anyone sneezes. :-)