Girls' Weekend

Christine came to town again this weekend for a visit! Unfortunately, Alex was sick for most of it, so he didn’t get to join in a lot of the festivities. However, it did give us an opportunity to have some girl time with Avery, which I think that she needs and enjoys. Saturday was a jam packed day, starting with Avery’s Might Mights practice at the YMCA. I’m pretty certain that Christine is now fully prepared when she comes here, but for those of you who haven’t been to visit and especially those of you who don’t have kids – beware. You will be up at 7 am (if you are lucky – sometimes anywhere between 530 and 630) and you will be going all day long. But, don’t worry – I do provide wine and food to help you get through it.

ANYWAY – Avery enjoyed t-ball and did very well at it, but had a hard time focusing because she knew that we were going to a fall festival afterwards.



The festival was great – lots of stuff for the kids to do, great weather, etc.









On the way back, Miss Avery fell asleep, so we decided to stop off at a coffee shop to enjoy a cup of coffee and to let her sleep for a bit longer in the car. One of the many luxuries of living in the country – where else could you just leave your kid and dog in the car while you have coffee? Don’t worry – we were all of 10 feet away from them and all windows were down. They were fine.

Saturday night, Christine and I decided to motivate and make a fire in our fire pit (which we have had since we were married in 2004 and just now used for the first time, but that’s another story…). I have to say – I was rather impressed by Christine’s fire starting abilities. We weren’t planning on having a fire, so we had limited paper to get it started, but that proved to be no obstacle for Christine! She got right in there and blew on that puppy until it started and we ended up with a rather nice fire as a result. In fact, Christine was so excited by her success that she just continued to blow on the fire even after it was raging. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t necessary, but I wasn’t going to spoil her fun (and, it was kind of funny watching her sit there and blow on the fire for so long).





Sunday, we took Avery with us on a long walk with Deacon on the beach. She actually did a good job of keeping up, which was impressive.



That afternoon, we did take Alex with us and went to a restaurant for lunch, which was of course, Avery’s highlight of her day.

Overall, it was a great weekend.

And, just for kicks (and, because poor Alex didn’t get too much attention in this post), we’ll end with a cute naked picture of him…