Ahhh, long weekends. I love them!!!

I love them even more when Jeff makes a bet, loses said bet, and I get an extra sleep in day!!!

Friday started out with breakfast at our favorite place. Yumitty yum!! I love our family breakfasts and I’m glad we have “our” place and our fun breakfast traditions. While the babies napped I ran some errands and grabbed an iced coffee. Mmmmm. Heavenly. That night we had Movie Night (although Heaten cried when he realized we weren’t going to the movie house, but staying home). He quickly got over it when we had candy and ice cream while watching Wall-E. We love us some kids movies at Casa de Barr, but this one did NOT impress either of us at all.

Saturday we got up and headed back to The Lied’s Children’s Discovery Museum. Of course the babies had a blast as did Jeff and I. Here is the famous “hurricane wind tunnel”:

Sorry the video is sideways. I uploaded it before rotating it and am too lazy to do it again. =)

During the babies nap I once again ran some errands and got another iced coffee. Too bad Starsmucks is SO expensive - I would have these daily if I could!! Saturday afternoon the babies/kids helped me make cupcakes for Auntie Stacey’s and Uncle Jimmy’s Fourth of July party (Stacey, I thought you were going to FINALLY update this weekend!!??!!). Jeff and I tried to talk up the fireworks thing to the babies, but having never seen them, they had no clue what we were talking about. I bought some “little kid friendly” stuff that turned out to be very UNFRIENDLY!! The sparklers didn’t sparkle, but flamed and burned poor Heaten’s foot and caught his hair on fire (ok, more like singed it, but still)!!! The black wormies that I remember from my childhood didn’t just grow, they had actual FIRE coming off of them, and the supposed kid friendly poppers would have taken the poor kids fingers off. I don’t know where I bought this stuff, but clearly it was NOT for kids. Sorry guys!

The party was awesome - Thank you Sissy!!! Heaten had a love/hate relationship with the fireworks. He loved them at the same time as being scared to death of them. Shenzie didn’t like them at all, the loud noises scared her so Daddy and Shenzie went inside and watched a little Kung Fu Panda which she DID like. We left at around 9:30 which is the latest the babies have been up and away from home. I would have thought they would come home and crash, but they were wide awake and ready for more play.

Sunday Jeff took Shenzie on a date out for lunch while Mama and Heaten stayed home and looked for bugs in the sandbox. Good times. Heaten was VERY bummed he didn’t get to go out as well, so next date day will be under stealth mode. We ended the weekend with Daddy cooking us a yummy dinner of bbq chicken, corn on the cob, and fresh fruit followed by double fudge brownie ice cream and a mini movie night!! Ahhh, this is what life is all about!