Visit to the Touchstone's New House!

One more "catch up" blog and I can finally move forward instead of backwards!
A few weeks ago, the little boys and I packed up and headed EAST to see our BFF's that just moved to Fort Worth. We had been having MAJOR Aunt D and Tabor withdrawls (Titus and Ty too of course) so we just went. Sometimes you just need some best friend time.

We headed there on a Monday and came home on Thursday. Here's a little of our adventures with 4 wild boys!

Monday we got there just in time to play and have dinner. We walked to their park and saw the awesome pool. It was HOT so we were so excited to try the pool the next day. Danielle introduced me to my new favorite place by her, Zoe's Kitchen, fresh mediterranian food. It was awesome. We let the boys play upstairs and in the water for a little bit. They were all so excited to see each other!

Tuesday we had one goal in mind: Hit the POOL. You know how long it takes to get kids out the door and ready to swim? That times 4. It took a while. Get kids in swim diapers and/or swimsuits. Get sunscreen on them. Load up floaties, pool toys, towels, and lunch. Load up all children and gear into stroller and wagon. Walk 10 minutes to the pool. Find out that it had in fact been vandalized the weekend before so it was closed for cleaning until FRIDAY. We are leaving Thursday. BUMMED does not begin to describe our little boys. We brainstorm other options and decide breaking into a neighboring subdivision would be cheapest and easiest. Who wants to take 4 boys 4 and under to a waterpark? Not us! So we asked the nice guy at the show home if we could visit their pool and they let us! Hallelujia! We were all excited!

After swimming and naps we hung out, played in the toys, Braidy made his own swimming pool in Tabor's empty sandbox, lots of nakedness running around playing.

Wednesday we loaded up and headed to the Ft. Worth Zoo! We got there just as it was opening. We saw all kinds of animals. The boys loved it all and really did pretty good considering it was SUPER hot that day! We rode the carousel, the train, and even gave the boys their first photobooth experience!

 

 That afternoon looked much like the day before. Swim, nakedness, naps, waterhose running for several hours, eating crazy amounts of watermelon (Braidy) trip to the park, bathtime, and stories read by Uncle Ty. He's a good daddy and "uncle". He even bathed all 4 boys every night. Big bonus points. That night he even let Danielle and I go out on a "girls date night". We went to BJ's Brewhouse and had a cream soda, lemonade, a couple Pizookies and lots of girltalk. Great times were had. 

 

 Thursday we had to head home. Sad. We decided to go see about Central Market. We LOVED that place. It was amazing. It was a Market Street on steroids. The kids played on the playground (brilliant), we had breakfast, coffee, and by the time we were leaving our children were about to cause us to completely lose our minds. But other than that, we had a wonderful time before we had to leave.  These boys are the sweetest and the best friends. Braidy could not get enough of Titus. He adored him. He wouldn't leave him alone. Ever. It was pretty sweet. And Tabor and Quinny just had a ball together. We've definitely missed Tabor since he moved. They had a sweet few days together, and so did the mommas! We can't wait to go back and play some more!

rewind to memorial day

Let's back up 6 weeks or so...to Memorial Day. Gotta blog about it! For the 2nd year in a row we went to Ruidoso for the long weekend for one of John's TRIBE baseball tournaments. We have a great time and just make a little vacation out of it! This year the Stone's went with us, so even more fun was had! We timed our departure just right for a dinner stop in Tatum, NM for some out-of-this-world steak fingers. YUM!

We stayed in the same awesome condo and lived it up for a few days! John had a couple games the first day but we had plenty of time that afternoon to explore. Jess and I went to White Sands several times growing up and I just remember it being the highlight of the trip, hands down. We would slide down the sand hills, we'd bury each other up to our shoulders, it was SO fun. So we told our husbands our great idea of taking the boys there. They were up for it. I even already had little sled we could use that we used on the snow over Christmas in Angel Fire! Perfect! We got there. It was blazing hot. Our sleds wouldn't budge. Like not a bit. We couldn't slide down. The boys were getting sunburnt by the second. It just wasn't quite what we had in mind. So it was a fail. We will try again another time (if we can convince ANYONE to go back). Who knew snowsleds and sandsleds weren't the same thing. A sled is a sled is a sled right? WRONG!

The next day we watched a couple more games until we had to head back to the LBk, but not before a good hike in the "forest" as Braidy always says. He loves a good adventure through any forest. A fun little getaway was just what we needed as school was winding down for the year! Until next year...

Western All Stars: Champions

John was chosen for the ALL-STAR team again this year for Western! He was super excited, as were we! The team was alot of his "TRIBE" buddies, but a few new faces too. They played a tournament and "Big Blue" was undefeated and won the championship. They outscored their opponents by some crazy statistic like 94 - 7. Yes, they only gave up 7 runs, and they scored 94. So needless to say, the games weren't super excited, but it was fun to watch them play really good! John played center field for the most part and was the 2nd batter in the line-up. He got a few homeruns in the tournament, too. He's a stud! I love watching him play! Congrats to the Western All-Stars!!!!