Crazy Busy Weekend Fun

PHEW!!  That's all I have to say now that May is over.  The beginning of the month brought two big cleaning days for me before our house went on the market.  (It's still there in case you want to buy it.)  Then we realized that if there was anything we wanted to be waiting for us in Haiti when we arrive then we needed to have it packed and ready to ship by May 28.  We had kind of thought we had until sometime in July but such was not the case.  So I looked at my calendar and saw that I had approximately 6 days total from that point where I could shop, organize, and pack.  Seeing as how doing all of that with three small children is next to impossible, I hired some babysitters.  We got what I would say is a bare minimum and I told Danny we may just be livin on love and that's about it for the first couple months but we'll survive.  The rest of what we want to ship should go at the end of August so we will hopefully get it within the first five or six weeks of moving.

Anyway.  The reason I only had a few days to do all that is because our weekends were maxed out!  Mother's Day weekend we headed south to Sweet Home Alabama for a wedding.  Soon after we made our official commitment to Haiti we talked about taking a weekend getaway with the two of us.  But we decided it was just too much so instead we tacked on an extra day to the Alabama weekend and took a day trip in Louisville.  We had so much fun!!

We got in late and left early from our Air BnB.  We started with a brisk walk on a pedestrian bridge that crossed the Ohio river.

Then we headed to Churchill Downs for a tour and visited the Kentucky Derby museum.  Neither one of us really knew much about the derby but it was pretty interesting anyway!

They had some fun exhibits and I rented Secretariat from the library for us to watch tomorrow night:)

We had lunch at Panchito's which was the real deal for tacos and then went to Mega Caverns where we did the zipline tour.  If you're too lazy to go to the link, it's a six zipline course in a huge cave.  Lots of fun, a little scary for wimpy me, but definitely worth it!  No phones or cameras or any such thing allowed though so no pictures to show for it:(  But I looked pretty stunning in my helmet and harness.

Then it was on to Athens!  With a memorable Waffle House stop for supper thrown in there.  Let's just say the women's bathroom was unfit to use and the men's bathroom was NOT vacant as it said it was.  We got to our hotel with plenty of time to relax a little after such a packed day.  

The next morning we met up with Aaron and Cassie and Mark and Bekah and all their kids.  We just hung out at a park before going out for a good ole southern BBQ lunch.  I loved getting all caught up!

Since we didn't have kids to put down for naps we headed to the town square for my favorite ice cream in town and walked around downtown awhile.

Then it was off to the wedding where there was pretty much a huge reunion of so many people and I just loved it so much.  There were a couple people I had wanted to talk to but didn't and I could have gone for one more round of BBQ, but other than that the weekend was pretty much perfect:)

Sunday night we drove to my parents where the kids were staying.  Monday and Tuesday we had some training with ACCFS.  We didn't leave until Tuesday at 5:00 so it was a late night getting home.

Wednesday and Thursday were filled with laundry and reorganizing and getting ready for the next big adventure!  Well, maybe not big adventure, but another full weekend!  We headed to a campground on Friday afternoon with several other couples.  Our style of camping is cabins but one of the couples with us did a tent so kudos to them!

They had face painting on Saturday which has been one of Summer's dreams ever since she found out what it was.  It was pretty minimal painting but it was satisfactory for her!

Even Tucker got in on the action:)

The weather was a lot warmer and a lot less rainy than we anticipated so the kids were able to play on the beach awhile.

Let the good times roll!

That week we had a full week at home but it was filled with more packing and my mom coming out for a few days for Summer's birthday.  Which I may or may not get around to posting about.  I'm so behind on here!  But then Saturday morning we got up and headed north to Pokagon State Park with Danny's family.  We had a great time staying at Potawatomi Inn.  

At one point some of the kids went and painted in the art room.  While I was there with Summer I decided I wanted to paint something too so it was Grandpa to the rescue to hold Tucker and help Summer:)  She first picked out a ceramic unicorn but I had visions of it being dropped and shattered so I somehow convinced her to do a paper mache "treasure box".  She loves it!

More playing in the sand and getting dirty...

And the Lincoln logs in the lobby!

We came home Monday and this week has been somewhat restful compared to the last few.  It won't stay that way because we still have plenty to do but it's been good to slow down a little bit.  And aside from watching Secretariat and making banana bars for church lunch, this weekend is also looking to be slow.  We'll take it!  It was good to go but it's good to be done too.

And I'm not going back to proofread this at all so Honey if you find lots of mistakes I'm sorry! :)