running to the sprinklers

Quiet weekends that finish busy weeks are my absolute favorite weekends!

Kate and I attended a Suzuki Institute ALL week.

Danny, Ellie and Sophie finished their week with an ALL DAY (open to close) adventure at Lagoon!

By Saturday morning we were all exhausted!

Our weekend recap:

SATURDAY

breakfast at your leisure

the girls each practiced their instruments with me

after picking up their rooms + reading

Ellie and Kate headed to "clay class"

(our adorable neighbor Bethany, at Kathryn's request, put together this amazing clay class!  the girls made long necklaces with beautiful birds on the end from their own sculpting!  they were thrilled!)

Sophie and Danny headed to Costco

I grabbed my book and took a nap

Ellie headed to a friend's house

Kate and Sophie watched Allison in Wonderland

I finally showered

we all loaded up in the car and went tile shopping

we found the most perfect-i knew as soon as i saw it-very reasonably priced tile at our first stop!

(remodeling the downstairs bathroom)

picked up Danny's new golf clubs

(he bought a new set that he could have lengthened!)

took the girls to Spagetti Factory

went to Amanda's for dessert and to see Rob+Whitney+Lyla Bird!!!

made Lindsay's ice cream

SUNDAY

got ready for church

Danny and I had off-setting meetings

attended church

(loved it)

came home and everyone in this house read or napped quietly for 1.5 hours!!!!!!

made dinner together

(egg-rolls, rice & stir-fry veggies)

ate out on the deck

attended to the garden

(thinned carrots, picked strawberries & picked peas)
note:  the deer are leaving our strawberries alone thanks to these solar powered.detect mvmt.annoying animal sound contraptions!!!!!  THANK YOU JARI!!!!!

after dinner we decided to head out for a walk
(yes...Sophie was in pj pants)

we ran into friends (Shawn + Lindsay) with the same idea---and walked and visited with them

the girls rolled down the grassy hill to see who could reach the bottom first 

they ran to the sprinklers on the golf course as the sun was setting

we returned back home for more homemade ice cream

and our friends endured a few songs we performed for them.

I wanted the weekend to last forever!