i already posted about some of our long Thanksgiving weekend...
the meal & birthday party on thursday & the surgery on friday
well, here's the rest of the weekend...
i spent most of friday evening & saturday morning on the sofa....just hanging out with my laptop, taking it easy, trying to recover....well, by saturday afternoon, i was ready to go outside! i was ready to get up & do something!
the kiddos on saturday
luckily, i had our thanksgiving meal at grandma's to look forward to....it's my dad's mom & stepdad - and their house is small....so it's always a ton of family, crammed into a little house....kids running around playing, adults sitting on every sofa/chair/stool available....us young adults sitting on the floor to make room for our elders....total chaos! but that's exactly what i wanted to b around after riding the sofa for 24 hours!
i made a simple, but oh so yummy dish to take (a recipe that i learned from my BFF, Misty (who recently started her own blog!), like 3 years ago) - it's cooked cabbage, onions & mushrooms - mmmm, good!....as well as chocolate chip cookies for the kiddos....i know that they don't usually care for all the wonderful pies/cakes/trifles that are brought for dessert, so i thought the cookies were a good idea....shoot, as soon as the kids hit the desserts, the cookies were GONE - good thinking Sharon!
cousins eating dinner together
we had a great time eating & visiting....then headed home & rolled the kiddos into bed
sunday, i was able to take off the dressing from my incision....finally, i could take a look at the size of it....the doc had told me they'd make a cut, the size of the lymph node they were removing....a little bigger than i imagined - but not too bad (so sorry if this grosses u out - u can see the string hanging out - that's what the doc will remove on friday)
the dressing came off just in time for our planned water park trip, to celebrate Gabby's birthday! that morning, Gabby helped me decorate this tiny cake to take with us - to have as dessert at dinner....since we just had family around for Gab's actual birthday, we needed a small cake to take & share with her BFF that we invited to come along with us to the water park....she helped ice it & put on a pink border, then i got out a few extra gum paste flowers i had & she decided where they should go - i think she did a pretty good job too! ;0)
we picked up Gabrielle's BFF, Kaitlyn, right after lunch & headed out....originally, i planned on not taking the camera into the water park - after my recent luck with cameras, better safe than sorry! but after inside, i couldn't resist taking some with my cell....and hey, they didn't turn out so bad!
here's in the car (taken with my camera) - Gabby is putting one of her HSM BFF necklaces on Kaitlyn....she got these for her birthday & couldn't wait to share one with her BFF....she even let Kaitlyn pick which one she wanted out of the 2!
all 4, just after going inside the park
these 2 were so brave & outgoing - wanting to try out every single slide in the park!
they spent a lot of time in the middle of the park (on the big playground type thing behind them in the photo above)....there were 3 tube slides in this area & they must have gone up & down them over 100 times!
jaden also enjoyed this area, but he played mostly on his own
daddy kept a watchful eye
omg - can somebody get me a drink of water....is it getting hot in here?!
~teehee~
corinn wasn't as thrilled about getting water in her face....she liked the calm froggy pond....she & i took it easy in this kiddie area & rode around on the lazy river a whole lot
there are also 4 really big tube slides that you have to climb 4 or 5 flights of stairs to get to the top of....for these, u ride down on inner tubes & u can go alone, in pairs or even on a 3-seater tube....the whole crew went down once (on 2 3-seaters) & then Corinn decided she didn't like all the water rushing in her face at the bottom....so daddy took the other 3 kiddos down again & again, while Corinn & i went back to the froggy pond....i'm soooo glad Curtis was along to help keep the older kiddos busy! :0)
Jaden even got brave enough to ride the Flowrider!
u climb up stairs over on the side, then sorta dive in on ur belly....of course, the pros jump in standing up - and surf....but i was majorly impressed with how well Jaden did on the boogie board for his 1st time! he wasn't scared at all - just dived right on in!
*warning - u wouldn't believe how much change & jewelry Curtis & the rest of the maintenance crew find under this Flowrider machine! if u visit the water park - please take off ur wedding bands, belly button rings, chains, etc. before trying out this ride! otherwise, it will become pocket change for Curtis & his boys when they take it all up to Rocky's to sell every month or so! ;0)
after getting our fill of the water park, we dried off, got dressed & headed upstairs to the arcade
and afterwards, we went to Cici's for dinner (always a crowd pleaser)!
we had a quiet car load coming home....everyone was wiped out & it didn't take long for the snores to fill the house, once we were home & had the kiddos warm in their beds!
i'm back 2 work today - and feeling great....even tho we had a super long weekend, it still didn't feel long enough! we had such a great time (with a little surgery thrown in the middle) & i'm sure the kiddos r having a blast telling their friends & teachers all about it today at school! ;0)
well, here's the rest of the weekend...
i spent most of friday evening & saturday morning on the sofa....just hanging out with my laptop, taking it easy, trying to recover....well, by saturday afternoon, i was ready to go outside! i was ready to get up & do something!
the kiddos on saturdayluckily, i had our thanksgiving meal at grandma's to look forward to....it's my dad's mom & stepdad - and their house is small....so it's always a ton of family, crammed into a little house....kids running around playing, adults sitting on every sofa/chair/stool available....us young adults sitting on the floor to make room for our elders....total chaos! but that's exactly what i wanted to b around after riding the sofa for 24 hours!
i made a simple, but oh so yummy dish to take (a recipe that i learned from my BFF, Misty (who recently started her own blog!), like 3 years ago) - it's cooked cabbage, onions & mushrooms - mmmm, good!....as well as chocolate chip cookies for the kiddos....i know that they don't usually care for all the wonderful pies/cakes/trifles that are brought for dessert, so i thought the cookies were a good idea....shoot, as soon as the kids hit the desserts, the cookies were GONE - good thinking Sharon!
cousins eating dinner togetherwe had a great time eating & visiting....then headed home & rolled the kiddos into bed
sunday, i was able to take off the dressing from my incision....finally, i could take a look at the size of it....the doc had told me they'd make a cut, the size of the lymph node they were removing....a little bigger than i imagined - but not too bad (so sorry if this grosses u out - u can see the string hanging out - that's what the doc will remove on friday)
the dressing came off just in time for our planned water park trip, to celebrate Gabby's birthday! that morning, Gabby helped me decorate this tiny cake to take with us - to have as dessert at dinner....since we just had family around for Gab's actual birthday, we needed a small cake to take & share with her BFF that we invited to come along with us to the water park....she helped ice it & put on a pink border, then i got out a few extra gum paste flowers i had & she decided where they should go - i think she did a pretty good job too! ;0)
we picked up Gabrielle's BFF, Kaitlyn, right after lunch & headed out....originally, i planned on not taking the camera into the water park - after my recent luck with cameras, better safe than sorry! but after inside, i couldn't resist taking some with my cell....and hey, they didn't turn out so bad!
here's in the car (taken with my camera) - Gabby is putting one of her HSM BFF necklaces on Kaitlyn....she got these for her birthday & couldn't wait to share one with her BFF....she even let Kaitlyn pick which one she wanted out of the 2!
all 4, just after going inside the park
these 2 were so brave & outgoing - wanting to try out every single slide in the park!
they spent a lot of time in the middle of the park (on the big playground type thing behind them in the photo above)....there were 3 tube slides in this area & they must have gone up & down them over 100 times!
jaden also enjoyed this area, but he played mostly on his owndaddy kept a watchful eye
omg - can somebody get me a drink of water....is it getting hot in here?!~teehee~
corinn wasn't as thrilled about getting water in her face....she liked the calm froggy pond....she & i took it easy in this kiddie area & rode around on the lazy river a whole lot
there are also 4 really big tube slides that you have to climb 4 or 5 flights of stairs to get to the top of....for these, u ride down on inner tubes & u can go alone, in pairs or even on a 3-seater tube....the whole crew went down once (on 2 3-seaters) & then Corinn decided she didn't like all the water rushing in her face at the bottom....so daddy took the other 3 kiddos down again & again, while Corinn & i went back to the froggy pond....i'm soooo glad Curtis was along to help keep the older kiddos busy! :0)Jaden even got brave enough to ride the Flowrider!
u climb up stairs over on the side, then sorta dive in on ur belly....of course, the pros jump in standing up - and surf....but i was majorly impressed with how well Jaden did on the boogie board for his 1st time! he wasn't scared at all - just dived right on in!*warning - u wouldn't believe how much change & jewelry Curtis & the rest of the maintenance crew find under this Flowrider machine! if u visit the water park - please take off ur wedding bands, belly button rings, chains, etc. before trying out this ride! otherwise, it will become pocket change for Curtis & his boys when they take it all up to Rocky's to sell every month or so! ;0)
after getting our fill of the water park, we dried off, got dressed & headed upstairs to the arcade
and afterwards, we went to Cici's for dinner (always a crowd pleaser)!
we had a quiet car load coming home....everyone was wiped out & it didn't take long for the snores to fill the house, once we were home & had the kiddos warm in their beds!
i'm back 2 work today - and feeling great....even tho we had a super long weekend, it still didn't feel long enough! we had such a great time (with a little surgery thrown in the middle) & i'm sure the kiddos r having a blast telling their friends & teachers all about it today at school! ;0)
7 comments:
So glad to hear about the speedy recovery. And what a fun time at the water park!
That water park looked SO amazingly fun! And how cute to see Gabby with her little BFF. Love it! You sound happy...I like hearing you happy. Altho gotta tell ya...I totally coulda lived w/o seeing the string hanging out of your neck! lol I didn't notice til' you pointed it out! ((((((((hugs)))))))))
...danielle
~lol~ sorry danielle - i knew there were some squeamish out there, like u....me, on the other hand, wishes there was some sort of video or something i could watch of my surgery - i'd LOVE to see what my neck looks like on the inside! ~lol~
It's awesome that you were able to get back into the swing of things so quickly:) Love the bday photos. I showed Wesley and now he wants to go to VA instead of Hawaii...LOL! I DON'T think so!! HA:)
Whew, just caught up on your blog after my whirlwind weekend travels! First of all, I am soooooo glad your procedure went well. Praise God! And you seem to be right back at it as if nothing happened! Secondly I love love love those pink & purple boots your girls have...I want some for me and AF!!!! And lastly...is that the water park at Massanetta??? It looks AMAZING! Would love to bring AF there someday!
wendy - tell wesley, uh no - Hawaii is like a katrillion times better! ;0)
BC - the boots were a walmart special...i think they were like $12! and yes, the waterpark is at massanutten...it's at the bottom of the mountain & has only been there a couple of years...it's supposed to b the largest indoor waterpark on the east coast - it has an outdoor section too, but of course that part isn't open right now...it's kinda pricey to get in, but if u're down this way & interested, curtis can hook u guys up on tickets...and it's a ton of fun for the older kids & adults - the frog pond is about all there is for the smaller ones (& the lazy river if they're ok to ride in a tube)...corinn still had a great time, but it's really a blast for the kiddos as they get bigger & more independent!
I love Cici's. Unfortunately I started back on my LOW CARB diet.
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