Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great Memorial Day weekend as a family.  We originally were going to try to take a trip to see friends so Matt already had taken off and we had a four day weekend!   Nathan loved having his daddy home that much.  We spent a lot of time doing errands and projects around the house.  We also had friends over for a Memorial Day "cookout".

We didn't actually cookout though...we had pork barbeque in a crockpot.  I love having this island for entertaining.  It makes it so easy to set up and for everyone to grab their food "buffet style"!  Everyone brought great food.  We only did the bbq and some chicken macaroni salad.  My counters were very full once everyone arrived!

I was pretty lax in the picture taking, but we had friends over from our previous small group as well as Ashley & Amber!  Gary & Allison brought sweet Landon.  He has a heart defect and has done awesome with his first two surgeries.  He is SO adorable!

Thankfully, I got this picture because Amber is on her toes!  Josh had to work so we missed seeing him...hoping to catch up with both of them soon.

Nathan is playing here with Annabelle, Kyle & Jessica's little girl.  They actually live in the same neighborhood as we do!


Andy & Lauren came as well.  It was really fun to catch up with everyone and have a relaxing evening.  It had cooled off and gotten windier so we kept the party indoors :)

Nathan had a rough night for some reason.  He actually had a short nap that day and then was up late since we had company...so that usually ends up affecting his night sleep.  Daddy gave in and brought him to bed with us.  He is not usually this cuddly, so he was hard to turn down I think!

No worries, no habits have formed.  He has been sleeping in his own bed this week!

We went to our neighborhood pool for the first time on Tuesday!  Nathan LOVED it.


Splashing daddy...


Uh-oh.  Losing balance.


And down he goes!


He went under several times on accident but it didn't seem to stop him for wanting to get back at it, without being held onto.  This is the 1 1/2 foot pool...for kiddos like him!


He's a splashing maniac.


There is also a splash pool for the kids that wasn't hooked up this day as well as the large one that is behind this one.

They even had a lifeguard assigned to this small pool.  She was really nice, throwing a ball back and forth with Nathan in the water.  There were 3 lifeguards on duty and then 2 other ones walking around.  Our tennis and basketball court is across the way too but I don't think you can see it in this picture.  They also have a snack stand with burgers, hot dogs, corn dogs etc!  Now we see why the pool is such a selling point of this neighborhood!  It's great for families.

Nathan and daddy pulling this little  girl on her float.


Drying off & having a snack.

He wasn't thrilled to be getting out of the pool but we had to feed him and get him down for a nap!

Putting his shoes on.



Ha ha...I love the expression on his face.  His bottom lip sticking out :)


We came back home to see the progress on our house...they guys showed up that morning to start the prep process for painting it! More on that in the next post..