Memorial Day Weekend

Last Sunday for Memorial Day Weekend I had all of us dress up in red, white and blue. We rarely are dressed to go together, so I tried to get a family shot. This is the best out of the TWO we got. And of course what kind of a day would it be if I didn't get resistance from somebody? Look the other two are trying to get him to smile.

So I finally get the smile and he is not looking.

Oh well!

Then Monday Greg had off work. I can tell you without even asking him that Greg doesn't like days off. He will be OK when we go on vacation, but on any other day it makes him very tense! (Even on vacation I'm sure he will call to make sure everything is OK, check his voice mail and possibly even his email IF someone hints at needing his help.)

Anyway, back to Monday. Greg had plans to make a movie of the kids, work on his writing stuff and I don't know what else. I had plans to have a picnic. The kids fiddled around and Greg decided to do a cooking show with Mason around 12:00ish aka lunchtime. But OK I can go with the flow. I get our lunches packed, we wait for the brownies to finish, and off we go to some unknown place to have a picnic. I picked a place close by, which was fairly packed. No picnic tables were left. That doesn't stop me though, I'm determined to have this BEAUTIFUL picnic. I put blankets down on the ground. I pull out our lunches. I finish my lunch and am enjoying the beautiful weather, and snapping pictures of my family. Then it started to rain. OH it's just a little rain. I could sit there, because DAGGUM it this is our Memorial Day Picnic and I am Happy! But Greg grabs everything and we are in the car before I know it. We went back home and finished our lunch. Greg was tense to say the least and so I told Greg in probably not so nice of tone to go to work. (probably more like get out of here.)

***Hey I never said that I was a saint!*****

So the rain stopped and I got the kids in the car and off to the YMCA to swim. WhooooHoooo we are excited! We get there and it is closed. UGH! So I promise the kids I will take them Tuesday and I take them to a nearby playground. Mason fell off the play dinosaur and hurt his back, and Ashley stubbed her toe and Aussie hit his head. So I declare it movie night. Off to Blockbuster to rent a movie. I thought we all agreed on Teen Titans in Tokyo. We go in and I get it and then one says, I didn't agree to that. Let's see one we haven't seen yet. OK- 3 movies later, one for each and a handful of movies on sale for half price (for our trip to Florida) and we are on our way home. They ended up watching 2 Pokemon movies. They begged for that second movie. I gave in knowing that it is summer and they don't have school the next day and I let them START the second movie around 9:30.

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But HEY it's Memorial Day weekend and we certainly had a memorial'able' day!

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Thank you to all of you who serve or have served our country! Thank you families for standing by and being split up for long periods of time so your spouse/father/mother can be serving our country. May God bless all of you and your families!