The Night of Sleepovers! Well, sort of....

Colton was spending the night with his friend Parker and, as usual, poor Carson felt left out. So I decided to have his friend Owen spend the night. Alison had the great idea of swapping kids and Ashlyn could spend the night with Burnley while Owen stayed here with Carson. I was surprised, but Ashlyn was excited and packed her bag and was ready to go. It kinda made me a little sad that she wasn't the least bit hesitant about leaving. Everything was going well. Alison texted that she read them stories and they were in bed chatting and playing with their purses. The boys were here having a good time as well playing Indiana Jones. (this was Carson's first official sleepover too) Then I got a text at 10:15 saying "Ashlyn wants to come home". Ugh! Luckily, they just live right around the corner so it wasn't that big a deal. And I guess I was secretly happy she was missing me considering her complete willingness to go. So Ashlyn came home and went to her bed and Carson and Owen slept in sleeping bags in a tent. The boys went to bed at 11:30 and were up at 0645. Awesome. I ended up dropping Ashlyn off in the AM to play with Burnley since she didn't spend the night and I took all the boys to the movies. Sleepovers are an exhausting experience!

Carson a.k.a. Indiana Jones

Carson is really into Indiana Jones lately. He has the whip, hat, and old diaper bag that is his "satchel." He insists that everyone call him Indiana Jones and no longer wants his name to be Carson. It's funny but I can say "Carson!" fifteen times and he is oblivious, but if I say "Indy!" he responds immediately. Hmmmm...maybe a name change isn't such a bad idea:)

4th of July

We had a very busy 4th of July this year. We started the day by going to the town parade at 0930. Colton was actually in the parade with the scouts. He thought that was great! He had the biggest smile on his face when he spotted us in the crowd and he was waving like crazy. The scouts got to ride on a military vehicle so he thought that was pretty cool:) After the parade, we headed over to the Thomas family's house to swim and cookout. In the evening we went to the Stanic house to swim and have barbeque. They live on the golf course and have a perfect view of the fireworks from their backyard. They also had a bounce house which is always a hit with the kiddos. We ended the night with sparklers(Carson loved them!) and smores. The kids got to bed around 11:30pm and were completely worn out. I will also add that I worked the night before and got home at 0630 that morning. I came home and slept for 2 hours(after being up for 24 hours) and I was sick to top it off. What you do for your kids..... I would like to comment on how proud I am of our little patriotic town. Trophy Club made the news-with a population of 8,000 there were 600 volunteers that placed over 25,000 flags along the streets of the town in preparation for the 4th. The parade(called the Parade of Patriots this year) was awesome! There were so many floats and it lasted a good 25 minutes. The fireworks were also spectacular. For a little town they really go all out for the 4th of July!

Lake Travis

We took a weekend trip to Lake Travis and rented a condo with the Hernandez clan. It was a fun trip-lots of swimming and our boys all play together really well. The condo had 3 rooms-2 with queen beds and one with bunk beds for the boys. It also had a beach club area with 2 pools. One was a really nice infinity pool. Unfortunately, we were not able to go down to the swim beach at the lake because the water levels were so low. I was actually fine hanging by the infinity pool because I really don't love swimming in dirty lake water. Here are a few pictures from the trip. Luckily, we didn't encounter any rattlesnakes in the Texas Hill Country. Colton was a little concerned about that possibility considering his fear of snakes:)