Last weekend of Summer Vacation

So last week was the girls' last days of summer vacation and I wanted to make the most out of it.  I took Friday off so we could have an open 3 days to plan stuff, and boy did we plan stuff!  We began Thursday evening by having Karsyn and Kailey over for a late night weinie roast and smores event.  They had been over the previous weekend and wanted to come back to ride 4-wheelers and spend the night, so we had them for entertainment all Thursday night and all day Friday.  When I say all night Thursday, its not to let you know they spent the night, but to tell you they were up ALL night Thursday!  Emily and Karsyn finally went to bed at 4am Friday morning.  That didn't keep them from being wide open all Friday though.  We put the inflatable slide up and between that and the 4-wheelin' they were busy.  They had asked our neighbor last time they rode if they could ride down his driveway and through his property to make them a bigger trail and he said it was fine.  He wasn't around Friday to ask again, so they made themselves at home.  They made dirt paths through the grass at our house by lunchtime and it dawned on me that there very well may be the same thing going on over at Clifford's house!  Whoops!  Oh well.  When you see 4 girls on 4 4-wheelers, you don't go out in the cloud of dust to stop them!  The waterslide had made a huge mudhole in the back yard and so that was an opportunity for them to go muddin' and our backyard looked like a 4-wheel drive mud event had taken place.  I had to hose down the kids before they could get in the car to go home! It was hilarious to see 4 little girls in bikinis, some barefooted, some muddy, some in cowboy boots, and one in mud boots.  It was a hoot!  Abigail has just learned to ride by herself and you would see the first 3 girls flying by and then Abigail in her bikini and cowboy boots carefully maneuvering behind them.  I really hated seeing the other girls go home because they were having so much fun. 

Making Dust

The Gang

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!

Friday night we all crashed and slept like rocks.  Emily had an early morning softball practice Saturday morning that I had to drag her to and by Saturday night we were ready to go to the drive in movies.  My kids had never been to one and that was one thing on my list of TO DO this summer.  We saw a double feature of ParaNorman and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  We sat in the back of the truck and fought over the towels and blankets I had packed because it got really cold on us after dark.  I have to say that this was a good idea and fairly cheap (and I like cheap) way of doing it.  $18 and all 4 of us watched 2 new movies! 

Tailgating at the Drive In

Sunday morning Emily went to spend the day with a friend and Abigail, Brandon, and I went to Morrow Mountain.  We had a picnic KFC lunch, went canoeing, and then went on a 4 mile hike to "The Rocks".  We had a very active day.

 

I hated to see the evening come and the thoughts of the 1st day of school came to my mind.  We had to rush around and find all the Wal-Mart and Target bags that contained precious new items for the new school year.  We couldn't find Abi's backpack and she ended up carrying Emily's old LL Bean one that has Emily's name embroidered across it.  She didn't seem to mind.  Bless the heart of a second child that doesn't even get phased by a "new" hand me down!  Abigail danced around the house and was so excited for school to start the next day.  This was a good feeling knowing that they were going to a new school.  Our beautiful nice school that is exactly 1 mile from our house got shut down and now they are being shipped into Locust to be put in a building built in the 1950's.  Nice huh? 
Anyway today was the 2nd day of school and again Abigail is singing and dancing around the house, but for a different reason...  She lost her 1st tooth tonight!  Yes, her first!  She is 7 years old and had a beautiful little mouth full of baby chicklet teeth until now.  Her permanent tooth for the one she lost is already in and so it was kind of necessary for Brandon to hook it with dental floss and jerk it right out of her little mouth.  She just told me that she cried because she had tears of joy not because it hurt!  She is so funny.  She was in the bathroom about 20 minutes after it being pulled getting ready for a bath.  I looked in at her because I heard her singing about the tooth and she was stripped down naked, slinging a shirt around and around over her head, and shaking her butt to her singing.  She truly is happy over this one!