Smells Like Memorial Day

We actually got to sleep in until like 8am today, which is pretty late in our household with these two munchkins of ours. But after sleeping in a bit, we picked up an early morning grocery order, ate breakfast, and then got busy doing chores around the house. I worked inside doing dishes and tidying the living room, and Jeff worked outside in the carport and on his car. Then I made up a giant serving of the “grinder pasta salad” I made a couple of weeks ago, for our family dinner tonight, and these two had to come “help” as well… And that’s when I finally took my first picture of the day!

I got the girls a little bit of lunch, and then they both slept for two hours, while I sat down to rest for a little while and just watch tv, after all the cleaning I had done this morning. When they woke up, we packed up our bags and water bottles, and went over to Grammy and Papa’s house, for a Memorial Day fish fry and swimming party.

And of course we had to stick baby Asher (my cousin Aaron’s baby boy) in the middle of all these little girls, to get a good picture of all 6 of the grand-babies on this side of our family!

While we were out swimming in the pool, we could smell Papa & Uncle Keith out front frying the fish, and could smell some neighbors grilling out. Bo said, “Smells like Memorial Day!”

All the little girls took turns in the bath tub after swimming and dinner and dessert, and then slowly all the families started trickling out, until we were the last ones there for a little bit. Addie set up a little window-sill-kitchen, to cook up her animal crackers.

And she shared some of her snacks with her sister.

But she still needed another snack once we made it home, before she was ready to go to bed.

Both girls were so tired and sleepy and went to bed super easily when we started their bedtime, and things went so smoothly. For whatever reason, I just didn’t take many pictures today, but it was still a good day.