While the boys are away....

What a weekend!

To mark the first official weekend of summer, Graham & Evan went on a Father & Son camp organized by our church. Evan was SO excited to go!! He could hardly stand the wait until 4pm friday afternoon when he & daddy finally headed out the door.

Cutie Patootie with his backpack & my "boys" heading out into the wild! Ah, feel the testosterone in the air! lol

Playing Soccer with some of the boys... and posing with what I am informed was "the pee tree" - ew.

The tent & daddy & son right before lights out.

I figured since the boys were away, I would take the opportunity to have some "girl time" with Averie. Brynlea's a little too young to participate (yet!) but this definitely feels like it's worthy of a tradition, so in a couple of years, she will join us. This time she stayed at home with one of our trusty sitters who had a really easy job with just 1 child to watch.

First, to the "Nail Studio" where I got pampered with my beginning of the summer pedicure & Averie got pampered in a big massaging chair beside me to get her toes all prettied up & painted. It was SO fun! She got to choose her color (and mine) and what nail art she wanted & was so patient once she was done & had to wait a while for me to be done. We chatted & giggled over different nail art we could have done. It was so nice to have uninterrupted time with her!

Then we went out for sushi! Another love that Averie & I share - yummmm...

She even tried her hand with chopsticks & didn't do too badly at all!

We finished off the night by watching Mamma Mia in mommy & daddy's bed (with popcorn, of course) and then Averie stayed in my bed for night.

How much I love seeing little glimpses of the time when I can be friends wtih my kids.
I may be a little biased but I think my kids are pretty cool people!