Weekend Recap

This weekend was one of my most favorite weekends in a long time. We didn't really do anything too special..it was just a weekend filled with lots of family time! And it actually felt like fall this weekend, so that certainly helped!

Friday was a Down Friday at Keesler, so Derek had the day off. Shelby has preschool on Friday mornings, so every other Friday I have Derek home with me to to help us get ready in the mornings...such a nice treat! All four of us go to drop-off on Friday mornings, and then we come home and lay Hadley down for her nap. It's so nice to have a couple hours with just us in the house to talk & get some things crossed off our to-do list. Before we knew it, it was time to pick up our big girl from school! We have made it a tradition to do something fun for lunch on the Fridays that Derek is home with us. On this particular day, we picked up lunch from Raisin' Cane's & went and ate a picnic lunch outside at Lynn Meadows & played on their treehouses & wooden train afterward. It was such a beautiful day!!

After our fun afternoon outside, we came home for naps. Then that evening we headed over to Hiller Park for their Fall Festival. Shelby LOVED the hay ride, and she also got to ride in the back of the fire truck!

We started our Saturday morning with Daddy's French Toast. Both girls loved it!

After breakfast, it was on to Shelby's last soccer game of the season!

All the kids care about in 3yr old soccer is the post-game
snacks & parent tunnel!

Posing with her trophy!

The rest of Saturday was a lazy day at home aside from an evening run to the commissary. I snapped this picture from the car on our way home. Derek & I always say Biloxi has the prettiest sunsets! We love living here & getting to see this beautiful scenery every single day!

Sunday morning we attended one of Shelby's friend's birthday parties at Monkey Joe's. MJ's opened an hour early for the birthday party, so the kids had the whole place to themselves...it was awesome! I don't know who had more fun though..Shelby or Daddy! They had a BLAST together! I know it won't be much longer before Shelby wants to play on her own or with her friends, but for now she loves nothing more than doing this kind of stuff with her Daddy. Their smiles were priceless.

Baby Hadley & Baby Alex munching on some broccoli while the big kids
enjoyed pizza, cake, & ice cream ;)

After the birthday party, we came home to let the girls nap. After loooong naps, we went for an evening run! After our run, it started to rain a little. Shelby, of course, wanted to walk around with her umbrella. So off she & Daddy went with their umbrellas--strolling through the neighborhood to look at Halloween decorations.

Then we fed the girls dinner & put them to bed. After they were in bed, Derek went to pick us up Outback To Go for dinner. When Shelby was a baby, we would treat ourselves to take-out food for dinner after she was in bed from time to time. It was always a special treat--like an at-home date night! This was the first time that I think we've done this since Hadley was born, and it was really fun! It was so nice to be able to leisurely eat our meal & have a real adult conversation at the dinner table. ;)

And one more cute picture of Hadley from our weekend, just because. :)

And here we are at Monday again....time is flying these days with these two sweet girls! We are gearing up for Halloween & the arrival of Grammy & Grampy! It will be another super-fun week & weekend! We can't wait!