Our Memorial Day Weekend 2011

What a Memorial Day weekend we had! Of course it kicked off out at my parents place in Estrella, at the Starpoint Water Park! They are always so generous and pay for everyone to get in and have a good time, along with pizza at their place later on in the afternoon! A BIG thank you to both of them for a great time once again this year.

Most of the girls and most of the boys that went to the water park. There was another large crowd that came out for pizza and wings later on, but I forgot to get a picture of everyone.

It was a little windy, making everything out there a little cooler, but the kids still managed to enjoy the water and the slides! The "dark slide" was feared last year, but was the slide that Kyan went on most this year! He loved it and if it wasn't for the wind, my guess is he would have spent lots more time in the water than he did!
Me and Lo, posing for a picture, she was so excited to take it, she pushed my glasses off to the side to get in nice and close!
And Lola only spent a few minutes exploring in the water, again it was so cold and I think Sunday was the day that she started to catch whatever bug it was that she caught (*more on that later), so when she wasn't swimmin' with Camden (Carmen was there too, but is quite the swimmer and was off doing big girl things) she was sleeping on her daddy's lap.
After the water park, we headed back to my parents place (a new place from last year, but still out at Estrella) for pizza and wings! While waiting for food, the kids swam, ran through the sprinklers, and watched the magician do some of his card tricks (my cousin's friend, Joe, is a magician and never leaves home without his deck of cards)! He had the kids wrapped around his finger and kept them entertained for quite some time!

With everything there was to do at my parents house, I got quite a bit of time with little Nixen, who is such a little muffin and such a happy boy to have around!

In fact, I got quite a bit of time with the whole Creel Clan, as they spent the night at our house Sunday night, so they could hang out all day at my parents and not feel rushed to drive home! Camden and Lola were pretty cute to watch, as they are both pretty dominate in their personalities! Camden wore one of Lola's nightgowns (so she could wear a dress to bed, even though she brought her own pj's) and wanted her hair in a pony tail just like Lola's! They had so much fun pushing their babies around the house and playing mommy! We tried to have them sleep in Lola's room, but Camden must have been on overload with all of the newness, as she just couldn't fall asleep. We were all shocked when Lola was out first, considering that Camden was up way past her bedtime!

Candis needed help with a project she was working on for her kids (or should I say her mama was working on) and needed the Silhouette machine! Much of our time was spent in the craft room making letters! When we were finished it was late, but not too late for her hubby to play around on the machine! He was trying to cut his Pink Mouse logo (website launches on Tuesday - I think, woohoo) on vinyl. Because it was a custom design (which I am almost positive you can cut) and I haven't had enough time to play with the machine, I was no help. He was up until the wee hours of the morning trying to figure it out (got the logo in, just don't know how to make it so there are cut lines on it) and had no luck! Any help as to where to look would be awesome!

It was fun to have a sleepover and look forward to having another one in the future for sure!

Later that morning, after the Creels left, we had a few more friends and family members over to swim (some didn't get to make the trek out to Estrella the day before)! My sister in law and her kiddos came over, along with Holly and Sydney, and the Casillas'! Chad's mom brought us lunch and stayed for a while too after her hair appointment!
Most swam for a few hours and left, but Rae and her kids played all afternoon with us! We talked about what life is going to be like when she moves into the neighborhood in just a little over two weeks (right behind us actually, we are already planning on getting a ladder to go over the block fence to cross into each others yards) and how well our kids play together! It will be nice having them closer. One of the best parts about growing up was being over at my aunt Heidi's house playing with my cousins or having them over at our house, and now they it is going to be just like that for my kids!

After they left, I got wrapped up in a new book that I am reading by Nicholas Sparks, called Safe Haven. It is my second read of the summer on my long list of books I want to read and it is awesome! I can't seem to put it down (maybe another reason why this post is taking me until Wednesday to put up). I just finished Jodi Piccoult's, Sing You Home, another one I highly recommend reading! Another tear jerker from her.

Kyan joined me out at the pool later on for some special swim time with just me. I taught him how to dive and we spent a lot of time talking about life, with our feet dangling in the water. With each question he asked me or that I asked him, I was memorized by his eyes. I thought for the longest time they would be blue, just like his daddy's, but after really looking at them out by the pool, I realized they are this crazy bluish/green color. The outside is lined in blue, but the inside is like this turquoise/green color. They are absolutely stunning and he has lashes that most women would kill for. Not only was the color capturing my attention, but just watching them when he was asking questions and comprehending the information I was giving him was so cool, I don't know how to describe it really. It was like I could see the mechanics of his brain working right through them.

Somehow we got on the subject of being hairy, probably because he is a hairy little thing and I always tease him about "becoming a man" (really about growing up) with all of the hair on his legs, and we were at this point checking out his arm pits seeing if he had any hair (he doesn't) when he asked if he will get hair on his boy parts when he becomes a man?! Bwahahaha! That was fun explaining that one! Those few hours by the pool was so special with Kyan and I hope that we get lots more like it in the future!

Later that night, we met up for dinner with my parents at Dillion's restaurant. I didn't realize that Lola wasn't really feeling that good at this point, so we headed to meet them. Once we got to there she fell asleep almost immediately at the table, weird. She would wake up for a red hot second, but then fall right back to sleep, alternating laps between me and my mom. At one point, she was in her chair and put her head on the table and fell asleep. That didn't last long before she was back in my arms, all through dinner. Kyan and my dad were just finishing dessert up when little miss thing puts her head up and says in a little voice, "I just pooped" (she was sitting in my lap)! Seriously? We rushed to the bathroom, to find out that she in fact had pooped a little, poor thing had diarrhea. We got cleaned up and made it home just in time to get to the toilet again, where her butt decided to explode! I felt horrible for her as she had no clue what was happening to her.
She is feeling much better now.

So that is it! Our crazy busy Memorial Day weekend! It was a blast, from start to finish (minus Lola getting sick) and we look forward to it next year!