Memorial Day Weekend iPhone Pics {5.27.13}

I hope everybody enjoyed their extra long weekend! We kicked off Friday morning by taking Eva to go jump around at Urban Air in Southlake. She loves to bounce around and I'll admit it's pretty fun for grownups too! She figured out how to run down the runway and jump or fall onto the mats that are at the end. Future gymnast? And we ran into Ryan's cousin and his wife there with their twin 2 year olds. Eva had only met them once before when she was a little baby but when I told her they were her cousins just like Mallory she gave them a giant huge and kiss. Friday evening we got to play games and hang out with our friends the Fords while all of our kids ran around and got into stayed out of trouble. I appreciate having friends that we can just hang low with.

Saturday morning we woke up with a plan to go to Hawaiian Falls right when it opened on opening day. I was worried because the weather was only in the 70's and it looked like rain was headed towards us. Ryan suggested that we go anyways, even if just for a short time. What a wise man! The weather ended up being perfectly fine while we were there and the clouds kept the crowds away (good for us, bad for HF).

Every time we've driven by HF lately Eva points and asks about it so I was interested to see what she would do this year. Well, a few minutes in she saw the giant bucket and was scared....then she was standing with Ryan and a smaller bucket dumped water on them.....so we spent much of our time convincing her that she would have fun in the water. She did like the lazy river and I think will enjoy it more each time we go. I'm so grateful that Ryan gets to be a chaplain there again this summer so we can swim often!

After some good naptime on Saturday we met up with our friends the Palazzolos for dinner at Corner Bakery. It poured rain while we were eating so I'm glad we didn't try to swim Saturday night.

Sunday afternoon we went to eat with our youth group after church. Somebody fell asleep in the car on the way there.

 

Our awesome students. They even figured out how to use the self portrait feature on the iPhone to get a picture of our whole table.

Sunday night we went to a graduation party for one of our seniors. His family hosted a crawfish boil in their backyard. It was my first experience with pounds and pounds of crawfish.

Eva spent most of the night in their pool...which meant Ryan and I took turns swimming with her. She likes wearing her life jacket. Yay!

Monday morning we went to Southlake again just to walk around. I love this photo of Eva with the flag. I am truly thankful for all the men and women who have given their life for our country. I tend to take all of our freedoms for granted, but there are so many soldiers who risk their life so that we can enjoy our country.

Every time we are at Southlake Eva looks at this bull from across the street so we finally let her go over and sit on it. There wasn't any sign saying not to sit on it so I guess this was okay. If you can't tell , she is in a stage where she rarely looks at the camera...like she is purposely avoiding eye contact.

While she napped Ryan and I played sequence and watched a movie. I don't remember who was the overall winner. Probably me :)

Monday night our friends the Glassers invited us over to swim and grill. Our little fish just loves the water! Again she wouldn't look at the camera, but whatever, I still love her.

We are officially in summer mode around here!