A very Nice Weekend

Well, with the girls in all there activities we had a very nice, busy weekend. we started off the weekend with a soccer game and a basketball game. the girls games were at the same time. since I had to coach Julia's basketball it made it easy to decide. I went to basketball game and greg went to the soccer game. Of course it happened to be Riley's best soccer game ever!!! Hopefully she will do just as well this weekend when I go watch. And Julia did great at her basketball game too. After that Julia, Jenny and I went to a place called Orange Patch (I've heard of this place for years and always see the neat stuff Jenny and Jessie find there) I finally got to see what all the fuss is about. Its a really neat place that I sure could spend lots of money at. Then on our way home we saw signs that said trains, so we followed them. there was a house set up with tons of train sets all throughout there backyard and house. It was really cool, we tried to get Greg to bring Morgan over to look but couldn't convice him. then it was time to celebrate Jenny's bday! Logan and Jenny have the same birthday so it worked out real well to go out for Jenny's on Sat. We went to the Landmark. We've been there before, but we had a good time and the salad bar or should I say room is very yummy. After that we drove home and taught the girls slugbug, although Julia is still having trouble figuring out what a slug bug looks like, those PT cruisers are tricky. Once we got back to Jessie and Kevins we checked in on Indy and Har Lee (Kevins dog) they seemed to get along very well. We changed clothes and headed out on a bike ride/dog walk/heely's/park.

Okay this is where I'll admit that I'm a bad parent. Julia doesn't know how to ride a bike yet, so we taught her this weekend. In our defense we have no sidewalks in our neighborhoood and people are crazy drivers for the street. So, I knew that she was able to ride, she just had to learn for herself that she knew how. she did great. She offically knows how to ride a bike now!!
We stayed and played cards that night over there (which I won both games!!) the next morning we decided to go to the lake since it was supposed to be 90. We got a new tube from Tige thats a UFO, really cool. So we head out to the lake. We blew up the UFo tube which all of us were really excited about and only went about 100 yards and the boat broke. the starter blew. So we had to get towed back in. Sad.
This parts wasn't the nice part of the weekend. As we get swung into the dock greg jumps off to catch the boat and slips on the dock (again). He didn't quite get there intime and took a chunk of fiberglass out of the nose of the boat. His shoulder is still hurting him today too. Its pretty windy so Greg stays to hold the boat and I go up and get the truck. There are lots of people around and no one is helping and its just us Farmers. I came up with the trailer and did the most awesome backing up manuver of my whole driving career. (you can even ask greg) Then greg tries to pull the boat in and slips into the water (poor guy) We finally get everthing set and head home.

We called Mike the boat guy on our way home and he said our chances were 50/50 on whether it would be expensive. so once we are home Greg opens up the boat. Sure enough it wasn't good. so we back in the boat in the garage and start working away looking for the parts. Our cool neighbors come over to help. they are all car guys and one even owned a tige a couple years ago. they pulled out the part that was needed and saved us aleast 1500 bucks!!! that was soooo nice. And one of his buddies owns a fiberglass shop and said he would repair it for free!!!

then we hurried up and put the boat together to leave for Logans bday party at the lake. The kids had a great time. they played on the play ground and ate pizza and cake. we also got to play in the sprinklers. that was a blast. Camden asked if I would go with him so I couldn't say no, so even I played in the sprinklers!! We got home and packed up Greg and went to bed early.

That was our Very Nice weekend.