Eric had to leave a bit earlier in the morning to go to his parents to finish up their sprinklers with his uncle.
They had been working on it all of Saturday and ran out of daylight before they could completely finish. I had planned to leave at the same time as Eric, but life just wasn't cooperating.
I was going to take a fruit salad to my parents for our bbq, but as soon as I stuck the pudding part of it in the fridge it fell over and when I tried to save it and stick it on the counter, I missed the counter and dumped it all over the floor.
I was so stressed that I literally broke down in tears. I didn't want to drive to my parents without Eric again and then I just lost the pudding I needed for my fruit salad and I still had to clean the house and get kids ready to go. Eric had to get going and because he knew I was so stressed he took the boys with him. That way I only had the girls home with me and I could stop at Walmart on the way to replace the pudding and just make it at my Mom's.
I left slightly later than I planned and decided I didn't necessarily want to stop at the store and so I called Eric to see if he had a thing of pudding I could 'steal'. Thankfully she did, so I was able to just head out. I was planning to go grab the boys from Eric so he could finish his work in peace and when I was about 5 minutes out I get a call from Eric saying that Nate had had an accident. Thankfully I had brought back-ups, but it meant the first thing I got to do when I got to Eric's parents was clean up wet pants.
I get Nate cleaned up and grab the other boys and we get to my parents. I go about making my fruit salad and waiting for the rest of the family to show up.
Around 2, we headed to the cemetery. It's about a 30 minute walk from my Mom's house, but it's so much easier than driving with all the crowds. I had brought the stroller for Ailey, Nate's scooter and Shaylyn's skateboard, but Nate biffed it 2 minutes into the walk and wanted to be in the stroller the rest of the time. Thankfully Ailey was happy to walk or to have Daddy carry her.
...My cute little nephew R.J....
...Beautiful little niece, Mew...
...Then we tried to get a picture of all the cousins that were there...
...The Twinners...
We then walked back to my Mom's and started the BBQ. The grill didn't want to cooperate and ran out of propane before anything could get cooked. So we had to take a 20 minute break while my brother in laws headed and refilled the propane.
When the propane was refilled we got the BBQ started for real and had a yummy dinner. Eric took Tanis and Nate to see Star Trek with his Dad, Brothers and Cousin A., so they were gone from the time we got back to my mom's until about 7:30.
A little bit after everyone was eating and we cleaned up a bit, my mom brought out some raquets and birdies with which you'd usually play Badmitton, she also had a couple things to play with that reminded me of an easy LaCrosse thing. But because we have just little kids, we let the kids go crazy and play how they would.
...Little C. decided the toy cars were safer toys to play with...
...But then he saw the skateboard...
We spent the rest of the night just visiting and playing a couple quick rounds of Tsuro when Eric got back to my mom's. I was so sore from all of the walking and drained from the emotional roller coaster I had been on during the day that I was so drained and it was hard to do anything. Yet, somehow I drove home and fell asleep quite easily.
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