Tuesday something.

1. We hadn't really talked about plans for the July 4 holiday until we were on our way to Brandon's 1:00 baseball game that day. We decided, en route to baseball, to go to OKC after the game to gather supplies for our enlarging-the-patio-project.  Late afternoon, we hit the road for Garden Ridge, Lowes and Cici's pizza before heading back home, driving only 60MPH or less when the trailer began fishtailing because of the 205 pavers, totaling over 3,000lbs, in order to make the 9:30, yes, I said 9:30PM movie. We don't normally take our kids to late movies, this was a first, but it was such a blessing in disguise because we were the only ones there! That's not the blessing, not entirely anyway. Gracelyn had to go potty twice and Blaine got sick.
The thing with Blaine is, well Blaine is a puker. He gets sick at random times, you never know when or where and it's not associated with anything necessarily. The boys started out sitting in front of us and when Blaine got up and came back to me I knew something must be up.(no pun intended.yet.) I had my baseball bag (Thirty One all in one organizer, the best thing ever!) with me and happened to have a ziploc bag from one of the many snacks I take to the ballfields. We knew once he got sick he'd be good to go and he didn't have time to make it to the bathroom. Oh the joys of parenthood.
That's the explanation for the picture...

not good picture but yet it tells a story. Blaine, well you know. Britton has mismatched socks and I was leaning against the front of a jeep covered in bugs in order to get everyone in the picture. This was such a memorable night. The kids raved and raved about the movie. Ryan and I was ecstatic that they weren't phased by all the commotion and we thoroughly enjoyed their recaps of the scenes we missed.

2. We had a playdate with our best friends. G awoke completely excited to see Taryn and the boys couldn't wait to see Cayson.

Cayson and Britton crawling under the water.

Taryn and G were the water starters! Blaine was an observer.

 This picture makes me laugh. so.hard. Britton wasn't smiling, shocker, 

so Cayson was encouraging him to by making faces. It was so awesome.

3. Gracelyn is all about giving gifts. We delivered her friend Kaybree's birthday gift along with cake bites to Kaybree's dad as a thank you for making Blaine's birthday invitation.

4. Simple things excite my kids...

like a tractor sprinkler. Excuse Britton, he was upset about wearing sandals. But he had been excited about the sprinkler until then. The joys of a small town.

5. Also, donut dates...

And I have 3 more on my calendar with each of my boys.

6. Britton started swim lessons yesterday. He was really looking forward to it, until the little boy walking in before him turned and ran back to his mother's car flailing his arms and screaming "NO!!!!".

I didn't get a picture of the first day because Britton was completely wrapped around my leg after that. I got one today and today he was actually smiling!

And today he jumped off the diving board 4 times and, according to his teacher, was joking and laughing and was the first to volunteer for the exercises.

A head-splitting headache and a little girl who is fighting sleep are consuming my thoughts right now so that's all.

Happy week!