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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

More weekend fun....

On Saturday, we got up and headed downtown for the 2nd annual Gumbo cook off fund raiser for the Red Cross that Aunt Liz organized. It was tons of fun but H-O-T! Luke loved the chicken and sausage gumbo that Uncle Kyle cooked! They had a jumpy castle where Luke and Connor spent most of their time and Michelle and I spent most of our time getting our prizes from the raffle tent. As soon as we walked in we each bought some raffle tickets (I got 6 and she got 24). Out of the 24 prizes, we ended up getting 4 of them! Jeremy and I won a $30 gift certificate to Pollman's bakers and a $300 six person catered meal! Mark and Michelle won a sheet cake from Butter Cream Dreams and a neck and back massage! It was pretty awesome.



To get out the heat for a minute, we walked down to Three George's for some ice cream, but since Luke doesn't really care for ice cream, jelly beans did the trick!


After the cook off, it was back to Mimi and Docs for more pool time and sprinkler time.


We ended Sat. night with a cookout at home. Good food. Good times!


Sunday we packed up our AWESOME mini-van and headed to the beach. We decided to go to pensacola, fl in hopes that the beaches would be tar ball free! We ate at a place called Flounders which was on the bay side. It was a beautiful day and they had some great seafood. Luke and Connor loved playing on the play ground which was just a few tables down from us.


We had both boys in the way back on the way down and they did great, however, by the end of the day they had the infamous "He's touching my seat" sibling spat, so we had to separate them. Wow, maybe we aren't ready for two!


The beaches were BEAUTIFUL! Not a tar ball in sight! It was a little windy, but the water was clear and totally swimmable. Luke like the wave ok, but loved the sand. Mark and Michelle were amazed at the sea shells. They said they don't have shells like that at the beaches.


Luke and Connor had such a great time playing together all weekend. They were best buds. It was so cute watching them interact and actually play. Luke was so wound up, he didn't even nap during the days. (Thankfully, he is back on schedule and taking a nice long nap this afternoon!)


On our way back we saw the "Hot Doughnuts Now" sign and had to get a dozen doughnuts for the Russell's. The big boys had just as much fun as the little boys!


We had such a good visit with our friends and will have to plan a visit up north soon!

2 comments:

anniemetcalfe said...

So great. I've been waiting for this post! Hope you all get some rest to catch up from your fun filled weekend:)

M.M. said...

looks like so much fun! glad you got to show those guys a good southern time :)

love that redheaded boy :-)