First order of business once we got home...a NAP!!! Well, at least for Vince and Avery! :) The bigger kids and I went to Marshalls to get some sleepover clothes and bating suits. Love spur of the moment trips like this! Usually I'm the one on the trip though. Breaking them in to being spontaneous early :)
After a successful trip to Marshalls, the older kids hit the pool. We decided that after dinner we were going to walk down to the Sweet Republic ice cream shop down the street. It is basically world famous, and we had never been there! It was similar to Cold Stone creamery...but their mint ice cream was beyond amazing. It is made with real mint leaves...nothing like mint ice cream you buy in the store. Sooo good!
So the excitement started on the walk home. About halfway there, we noticed that it was SUPER dark! Like SUPER dark! All the street lights were out...no lights on in the buildings that we could see. As we got closer, we realized that the power was out in the area. We hadn't had a power outage at our place during the night. It was soooo quiet and so dark. There was a full moon out though, so it was bright - outside. Once we got inside it was really dark though. Kids were a little freaked. We lit candles and got out all the camping flashlights for them to play with. We actually played blackjack by candlelight, which was kinda cool! Took their minds off the darkness. Later we went and laid out by the pool under the moon and stars. We could see a lot of them since all the power was out in the area. But the kids were all super loud...which was magnified in the silence....so we went back inside!
We decided to all go to bed...and about 2 hours later the power came back on...along with all the lights, and machines, an everything else. There was beeping going on all over. We all jumped out of bed completely freaked out. Avery swore there was a shopping cart in Drakes room (the wheelchair kind that beep when you back them up). All she could talk about was the shopping cart in the room! (It was our big printer rebooting!) Hilarious though.
Soooo, what I failed to mention earlier was that Avery is still in the "pita" stage...pacifier. But of course we didn't have it, because we had nothing. So we decided she could do without it for the night. Haha....this was interesting!! She slept in our bed, and her & I stayed up talking until she could fall asleep. Reliving every moment of the day...the planes drawing picture in the sky, driving all the planes, etc. She was sooooo cute!!! She kept begging for it..."please Cassy, I need my pita". Sooo heartbreaking!! Vince couldn't take it...he almost got in the car to go buy her one (more than once!!). He had to go to sleep out of pure heartache!! So she had just gotten to sleep, and then the power came back on....so the cycle started all over again. It was rough!! But she finally fell asleep and when she woke up she was soooo proud of herself that she was a big girl and she didn't need her pita! It was a moment!
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| Such a sweetie pie!! |
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| Ice Cream at Sweet Republic |
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| Waiting for the bedroom cleaning inspection....before they can go swimming |
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| New suit...Marshalls find! |
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| Watch me break the bucket! |
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| Cuteness!! |
So I ALWAYS have to take a pic of all the kids in this favorite chair of mine. I have various ones throughout the years. It is great to see how they have grown and how they used to fit all side by side in this chair. Someday I will do some side by side comparisons one day...gotta find them all though!
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| Avery making a break for it...the other kids are sooo patient! |
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| Everyone is HAPPY |
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| And the little one is DONE |
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| And she was saying "They hurt me, they hurt my arms!" |
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