Mom of Boys

It’s Tuesday, so it’s taken me forever to blog about my Thanksgiving and black Friday.  I’m still trying to catch up on sleep from the weekend, and I think I can finally start to feel my feet again!  We got back from New York late Sunday night.  It was close to a 10 hour drive back!  Traffic was just crazy!  Saturday we walked over 250 blocks, which I think Marcus said was about 14 miles.  I almost didn’t make it back to the apartment, my legs and feet hurt so bad!  Next time, we take a cab back! 

The day before that,(Friday) I think I got a few hours of sleep before driving up to NYC.  Crystal blogged about our black friday experience, so I wont re-write what she wrote.  What she didn’t put, was that by the time the manager let a hand full of us in early, I had to pee so bad, that I knew before he opened the door that I may not make it to the camera without peeing in my pants!  So… the doors opened and only me, Crystal and a few guys behind us were let in.  I’d say we had a good 2 minute head start on the rest of the crowd.  We were all headed to the back middle of the store towards electronics.  Mostly everyone took the path that went straight there, but since I was skipping and trying to keep up without wetting myself, I cut thru the shoe section which probably delayed me more then saved me time.  I heard Crystal yell out, “Robyn, where’d you go!”  Which made me laugh a little… laughing is not my friend when I have to pee….  And then there was a guy who also cut thru a section in the store who yelled out, “AHHHH!!!  I’m LOST!!!  Where am I!?!?!?”  Now, THAT was hialrious!!!!  I stopped for a second to make sure that I could make it to the camera or if I should go back tot he bathrooms.  Of course I kept going to the camera!  I wasn’t about to loose out on getting the 1 thing I stood in line for 7 hours for!  Anyways, I made it to the bathroom just in time!  I swear ever since having kids, I can’t hold my bladder like I used to!

And then before THAT, we hosted a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with several family and friends!  20 people showed up and I think at 1 point most of those 20 people were sitting somewhere in my living room and kitchen!  There were people on the couch, floor, in chairs that were randomly placed in the room, on the stairs, and at the train table.  The kids sat at the kitchen table.  Not the Thanksgiving that I am used to, but it was nice to have everyone together!  We’re still eating Turkey over here… Although tonight we decided last minute to just get out.  We found a pizza place, so we walked in and ordered… OMG, the bill (for pizza) was close to $50!!!  We wont be eating there again anytime soon!

Well, I spent all afternoon on photobucket trying to create a slideshow of the pictures from out vacation.  In the middle of working on it though, I had to step away here and there for the kids.  Everytime I came back to the computer, the site was still up and it let me continue working on it.  Until… I went to finalize the project and then it sent me to the login page!  AHHH!!!  So…  Instead of posting a slideshow on here for you to see… I will just post my favorites right here…  Which is what I didn’t want to do, because it’s a lot!  Enjoy!

 
We arrive

 
“Get out of my way!!!”

 
This is what we woke up to the first morning we were there.

 

 
Marcus in the big red chair.

We built this awesome sand fortress for Caleb and we were going to wait for the tide to come in and destroy it.

For one… Caleb didn’t make it an hour. And two… High Tide that day wasn’t supposed to be till 10:00 p.m.

We saw horses almost everyday… We saw this one from our deck.

 
Alec watching the runrise

 
Caleb Monkey

 

 

 

 
Just before the sun came up!

 
Caleb’s feet prints

 

 
Alec and Daddy

 

 

 

 

 

 
Hangin’ loose in the hot tub

 

 
Look at that Butt!

 
Papaw and Caleb

Passed out…  

 
aJeepin’ on the Beach!

 
“Mommy, look what I found!”

 
“Mommy, Look what else I found!”

 
Burried Caleb…

 
Caleb found a treasure

 
Burried Alec

 

 
Burried Daddy…

 
Alec was so excited… that he went to give Daddy a hug.

He got a face full…

This is the moon. It was so bright and beautiful!

My mom and Gary

 

I guess I could have also just directed you to my photobucket site, HA HA!  Well there are a ton more pictures if anyone wants to view them:  http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b365/sweetrld/OBX/

The guest password is bean

 

 

 

Today was kind of a gloomy day with the weather.  It was overcast all day long and it was kind of cool too.  We had plans today to meet up with my family for my birthday.  We started out at my grandmothers to go swimming and then we were all going to go out to eat at the Olive Garden.  Well, we made it over to ‘gamma elaine’s’ and we did take Caleb over to the pool.  Alec and I sat on pool steps and dipped our feet in.  Caleb loves the water so much!  He had a blast!  He was diving in head first which scared me at first, because I didn’t know he could!  Alec of course loves the water too and tried several times to get in!  He did manage to sit on the top step, WITH his clothes on!  Ha ha!

 

We met the rest of the family at Olive Garden and once we got there it started POURING rain!  We got Caleb a new spiderman umbrella yesterday at Walmart and he was able to use it for the first time.  He was so cute… offering to walk my grandma inside with it!  Like they could both fit under that little thing. 

Caleb was so well behaved at dinner.  He kept everyone laughing and we all just had a great time.  The waitress came over to take out drink order.  Caleb looked up at her and with a totally straight face said, “excuse me ma’am, I think I would like some tea please.”  Everyone kind of just stared at him for a moment.  He went back to his coloring and everyone busted out laughing.    We also order the sampler which had mushrooms, fried cheese and calamari.  Aunt Gayl asked Caleb if he wanted some Calamari.  It was a little loud int his place, so I understand that he couldn’t hear too well and he thought she said, Cala-mario and asked, “Cala-mario?  Like what aunt Carrie has?”  I think I was the only one at the table who understood that he thought she was talking about the Super Mario Brothers.  He followed up by saying, “Of course I want some Cala-mario!”  Well, they gave him some and he LOVED it!  He munched on it till his mac n cheese got there.  He didn’t actually EAT his mac n cheese though…  He ate off of everyone elses plates, which he often ends up doing.  Alec had french fries and chicken fingers, and a little of my mashed potatos too.  We ended dinner with Cake and I got away with not having the staff sing their birthday song!  Woo hoo!!! 

Anyways, it was a good night!  I had fun with my family and my little man made me laugh!  I’m so proud of him. 

Well, it’s Tuesday and we are still trying to relax from the weekend.  Jayden went home this weekend.  Crystal met us about half way at my dads house.  He had his big birthday celebration which was a lot of fun!  We camped out on his property and had a great time!  Everyone was there, even Rachele.  I paid for her ticket coming down because I knew that the one thing dad really wanted was for everyone to be there with him.  It was a nice weekend for it too!  The weather was nice… not too hot and not too cold.  Of course the traffic was horrible!  It took us 3 and a half hours to get from my house to his house, and it’s normally a 2 hour drive.  I guess we managed the ride alright…  But I can’t wait to get a new van!  One with working AC!!! 

 

Anyways, we got down there and the kids were all playing with each other… I think there were 7 kids under 4 and they were all having fun… getting dirty!  Crystal got stuck in traffic also, so we were there a while before she showed up.  Jayden was so happy to see her!  She cried and hugged her…  I almost cried myself!  It was short lived though, because she wanted to get down to go play again.  She did come to tell her mommy that she loved her every 10-15 minutes…. and when she did she almost always called her Robyn first.  It was too funny!  Before they left to go home, they joined us for dinner and fun.  Crystal rode with the kids on the tire swing which they both loved!  I wouldn’t dare let them ride alone, because it swings out over this steep hill and you could probably go as high up as maybe 15 feet out there with branches and tree stumps under you. 

After dinner and of course after s’mores, we walked Crystal and Jayden up to the car.  Jayden was excited to get home to see her new room, and told us she was going to stay awake for the drive home, but I knew she would pass out before even getting to 95.  She had a long day.  The kids hugged each other and after Jayden got into her seat, Caleb went over and said, “I Love You Jayden!”  It was so sweet… 

So…  Caleb and I began to walk back down to the party…  The trail down was covered in little frogs that hopped out of our way as we approached.  Caleb got to hold one too!  I didn’t think he would do it, but he wasn’t scared at all!

 

 We got back down to the rest of the crowd and my dad opened gifts.  Rachele and I got her a really funny card that made everyone laugh.  It really fit him too, which was what made it funny!

After the gifts, I tried taking some group pictures of some people.  I got Rachele, Gayl, Dad, and Johnathan together for 1 picture which ended up being several, because someone said soemthing about the pose, and my dad just started workin it!  LOL!  It was so funny and everyone was bustin out laughing!  Just take a look and see….

 

 

Hehe… Such a goof!  49 years young!  It was a great weekend!  When I woke up Sunday, I had to pack up and head home early so that we could try and beat the beach traffic.  I didn’t want to have another 3 hour ride home again.  We stopped by my moms house on the way and stayed until a MUCH needed storm passed over.  Got to see my niece Daina, who is 6 months old!  She’s such a little girl… still in 0-3 month clothes. 

 

From moms we dropped Rachele off, picked up Marcus to visit the new Ashburn Target and to eat out at some overpriced, not so good mexican grill and then got home and got to bed!  I was so tired by the end of the night!  I was lazy all day yesterday… Just hung out with my boys and did some laundry.  Today is pretty much the same…  It’s only been 2 days since Hayden has gone home and we’ve fallen back into our regular schedule.  Caleb has even started asking us to sleep with him for a little bit at night again.  When Jayden was here, he didn’t asked us one time!  And… Alec is back to his regular nap schedule too.  It was just too hard to do when Jayden was here…  Too much going on for him to lay down and nap!  **sigh**  Back to normal!