BUSY weekend

On Friday we had the annual 5k race for Brilynn's school. Brilynn and Maycie made a good effort at the start but soon got a side ache and wanted to walk. John and I left them standing on the corner (that sounds really bad) and told them to watch for Rhonda, who was pushing the twins. An extra big THANKS to all my friends who helped with my girls during the race. (even the ones who were sitting on the corner and let Brilynn sit with them for awhile:) After the race we spent a lot of money...I mean time at...the school carnival. All the girls played games, rode the train, and jumped on the bouncey slides. Brilynn even came home with some lovely gold fish. We as parents are so THRILLED about the fish:(This morning we got up early and headed to the soccer games. To bad I had the wrong time written down for Maycie's game and we showed up for the last 2 minutes. Maycie was so upset and was trying to hard to hold back her tears. However, she let me have it as soon as we got home. It's times like that when you feel like a HORRIBLE parent. I think she's over it now. After the twins got a nap we headed to my Aunt's for a BBQ. Things were great, everyone enjoying the sunshine, until we heard a blood curdling scream from Brilynn. She had slipped and took a nice "slide" down the stairs. After a few minutes of settling her down she got up and started playing and took another tumble down the other set of stairs. Guess it just wasn't her day. Sorry Bri:( Payge and Preslee were helping Linda weed her garden. Good job girlies!The girls (and Andrew) built a balance beam out of Linda's garden pieces.Craig the EGG makes Brilynn smile after her tumble down the stairs. Brilynn loves my Uncle Craig and really is close to him even though we don't see him very much.My dad's 2 sisters and brothers. Wonder why my dad isn't in the picture. Oh yeah, I forgot he already made his yearly trip to the city:)We got a good game of redrover in but ended when Shelby's arm got hurt. Doesn't that always happen in that game?Linda had bottles of bubbles for all the kids. Payge just walked around most the time patting people on their legs. She was trying to get anyone who was willing to help her blow her bubbles. She finally convinced Linda to help her and PresleeThen she found Linda's "eyeglasses" and was completely impressed.
Thanks Linda for having us over for the BBQ. It was the perfect way to spend a warm spring afternoon!!!