Scuba refresher

Last night I went to the pool for a scuba refresher.  It's been over a year since I've been scuba diving and we have plans to dive in the near future.  I was anxious and nervous...don't know why.  I did just fine and it came back to me pretty quickly. 

Larry came along and snorkeled and took pictures of me with his new camera.  He was testing it out.  I'm so glad we went because I feel more at ease about diving in Cabo!



Hours of entertainment

 

It's pretty obvious we are getting our money's worth with this purchase!  They are in and out several times, but they are loving it.  Luckily, I've taught them to only use one towel per day!  Ha ha ha!

Not only does it provide them hours of entertainment, but it gives me some good picture opportunities!



Pool play

The boys came home today to see the surprise pool all set up!  They were soooo excited!  They could barely wait to jump in!

Carson plunged in immediately and came out screaming "It's sooooo cold!"  Adam was a bit more cautious and worked his way down the ladder.

They took turns jumping in...

Then pool floaties became ships on the ocean

and pool noodles became oars for their ships...

The pool is creating more hunger and laundry, but maybe just maybe they will go to sleep early...

Weekend fun!

The majority of the weekend was spent doing this...

We (mainly Larry) had to put the pool together, the ladder together, get the pump all set up, and fill the pool!  I had the big chore of blowing up the pool floaties!  Ha ha ha!

Larry and I had to test it out...oh my gosh was the water cold!!!  Brrrrr!!!  Larry kept claiming the water was 70*, but apparently that is too cold for me!  Larry had his mask, snorkel, and underwater camera...I wish I had a picture of that!  The cutest thing is we decided to let Copper in and he is a great swimmer (Larry has taken him in lakes before)!  He even got on the floaty and just laid there!  At one point Larry was holding him and he was still paddling all of his legs....so cute and funny!

Besides that we had breakfast out, ran to Costco & Walmart, did laundry, watched Breaking Bad, cleaned carpets, napped, and just tinkered around the house. 

Weekend update

Our weekend got a jump start with a wedding!  On Thursday night, Larry and Tom did the music for Kyle and Brittany's wedding.  Brittany is a co-worker of Larry's and she was absolutely stunning.  They both looked so happy!

Just pronounced Mr. and Mrs Collins!

They had the most amazing cupcakes!  The frosting was pretty much to die for and the flowers on top were edible!

Larry and I danced to our first dance song (Lost Without You by Robin Thicke) from our wedding.  Awwww!  I figured out that it was the first time we have danced since our wedding.

Friday, we were back at work...of course!  After work, I hit the grocery store and then came home to make french dip sandwiches for dinner.  We watched several recorded shows before heading to bed.

Saturday, Larry worked and I didn't!  Odd!  The boys and I hung out and did some cleaning.  After Larry got home we headed over to his Mom's house to celebrate Trisha's 20th Birthday!  It was pretty low key, we were able to sit outside and enjoy her back yard.  We had yummy Mexican food and German chocolate cake.

She's laughing because she blew out the candle when no one was looking! 

Sunday, we got up and got dressed so we could head to Salem.  We ran some errands...picked up Larry's glasses and contacts and we had to go to Best Buy.  Larry purchased a new cool camera that goes underwater so he needed a memory card for it.  We ended up with a memory card, a new camera bag, and a Harry Potter movie for Carson.  Then we had to run over to Target to get Adam a video game to be fair since Carson got a movie! 

We had Hometown Buffet for lunch and we figured out that the boys and Larry get their money's worth, but we aren't so sure about me!  LOL!  I love the ice cream bar though...yummy!

It was a rainy dreary day so we came home and vegged out.  The boys played their new video game, Larry watched a movie while playing with the camera bags, and I napped/read a book.  I read half of the book already! 

Larry and I are watching the series Breaking Bad so we watched an episode of that and headed to bed.  The boys were still playing video games and it was only 10 p.m. so I said good night to them, thinking they would head to bed soon too.  Adam generally likes his sleep.  I awoke at 5:15 to the boys talking...odd...too early.  I went in the game room and Adam hadn't gone to bed!  Oh my gosh!  I sent him to bed at 5:15 a.m.!  The little gamer!  I have to get him up at 8:00 to head to daycare so today should be interesting...

 

Zoo trip!

I took today off of work so I could take the boys to the zoo.  They have $4 admission on the second Tuesday of each month so I thought we should take advantage of it!  It was so crowded though.  I think I would rather pay full price! 

I love this picture...

The boys had to go on the Dino Walk so I paid the $3.50 each to do so...

The dinosaurs were very loud and Adam didn't like it!

They were very realistic though and some even sprayed water!

We saw all sorts of animals, I think partly because the weather was cooler and rainy.  The elephants and monkeys were snoozing though so that was a bummer.

The bears were playing and eating...

One of the polar bears was playing with his toy...

You can click on the picture to make it larger

Several other animals we saw...

A few other random pictures...



We had chicken strips and fries for lunch to the tune of $28.95...eek!  We had a good time though!  It was good to get out of the house!