Eric's Birthday Weekend - Part Two

We started this weekend off with the sleepover. I was so impressed with how good the kids did! Thad was an absolute angel! They all played quietly, and when it was time for bed, I told them that they needed to go to sleep, they just said, "Okay". I went upstairs, came back down in 5 minutes, and they were ALL ASLEEP! It was amazing! They slept through the night, woke up around 7-7:30ish in the morning, ate a good breakfast, and played good all morning. Tucker is so funny. He was telling me how he woke up and saw our cats sitting at the window. So he woke up Thad to show him, but he didn't wake up Eric, because Eric probably sees that sort of thing all the time.

Earlier Friday morning, I ran 8 miles, came back and did the grocery shopping, and started cooking. My neighbor across the street had a baby, so I was bringing her family dinner. I had Norma and Aubrey help me cut up all the strawberries. Norma was eating them faster than Aubrey. I couldn't believe it! Norma only has 2 teeth! Saturday morning, Nathan and Bobby came to get their boys, and we all headed up to Thomas the Train. Eric was so excited when he saw Thomas. Then we showed him his "ticket" and he couldn't believe that he actually got to ride on Thomas. We got there early so the kids could do all of the activities. There were so many kids there, that it took forever at each activity. They all got Thomas "tattoos", and balloon swords or teddy bears. There was a petting zoo, so Eric and Aubrey went up and pet the goats. The train ride wasn't very long, about 20 minutes. One of the farmers had their sprinklers on, and it would shoot right into the train, so we got wet. Aubrey loved it when we would pass the railroad crossings in the train. After our ride, we went to the Train Restuarant. It's kind of like Dairy Queen, but has a train that goes around the ceiling, and trains that the kids could eat their food in. It was so packed. I think everybody that went to Thomas, came over to the Train Restaurant right after. We even had to share our table with strangers, just to have a place to sit! The kids had a great time, and were wiped out by the time we got home.

After we got back, Zac and I went and put siding on the shed. We got 2 1/2 sides finished, and Zac will finish it completely tomorrow. It looks really good, and matches our house perfectly. Zac had to work Memorial Day, so after I ran 6 miles in the morning, we brought up a picnic lunch, at ate with Zac while he was at work. Zac took the kids for a ride in the Mule around the park...they loved it! Zac was able to rent a backhoe again after he got off of work. So he is working on our yard all day today. Last night, he let Eric steer the backhoe around. Eric was grinning from ear to ear the entire time. After he got out of the backhoe, Zac still needed to do some work, and Eric was shouting "Dad! Go a little farther, a little farther, a little farther, STOP! Now go backwards, a little farther, a littler farther, GOOD!" It was hysterical! He continued to coach Zac how to drive for awhile.

We got the call on Sunday that they are going to split our Sunbeams class, and create another class. YEAH! They originally wanted to take all the good kids out of our class, but Zac called them back up, and politely asked if we could keep all the kids in our neighborhood (which conviently are the good kids). So we will have a smaller group starting on Sunday. We will now only have 9 Sunbeams.

I think this is hilarious. Our neighbors are in a little spat right now over watering the lawn. One neighbor waters his lawn all the time, which he is uphill. So the downhill neighbor keeps on having their gardens overflowing of water etc. So they asked the neighbor to not water as much. So the neighbor adjusts his sprinklers to 15 min every HOUR. He doesn't speak (or read) very good English, it was an honest mistake. Needless to say, the downhill neighbor is very upset.