Holiday Weekend!

Who doesn't agree that a Thursday 4th of July is the ideal day?  Your loooonnnng holiday weekend can start Wednesday afternoon, you get Thursday (and in most cases) Friday off and next thing you know....bam it's turned into a mini vacation at 5 days with dad off work.  Granted, dad is ready to get back to work come Monday morning after having spent the better part of the last week with all his crazies at home.  Anyway, we had a fun little holiday - started off Wednesday afternoon with a pool party at a friends house, followed by fireworks up at Algonquin Country Club.  Thursday morning we packed up and headed down to the Lake of the Ozarks for a few days (taking the back roads this time - highly recommend!), came back Saturday still with plenty of time to tackle projects around the house.
This was Emerson's first time to the condo and the girl was into it.....sunsets, wall to wall carpet to roll around on, hanging with dad, the lady was lovin' lake life.

Mom of the year got to the condo only to realize the bag with all of Ryan and Reese's clothes was sitting back in Kirkwood next to my bed.  So the girls with about 15 bathing suits between the two of them, added two more to the arsenal.  Have you ever tried picking through the Wal-mart little girls bathing suit section?  Tough pickin's, to say the least.  Whoever designed some of those options should be committed.   Needless to say, holiday wear for 2013 provided by Wal-mart.

Plenty of ice cream trips were had....

Eating fake doughnuts...

The girls were told they would be going to see Despicable Me 2 with dad after breakfast.....Reese = very happy.  Ryan = numerous followup questions mainly centered around exactly which Despicable Me it would be (not 1 dad, I've already seen it) and if this would cut into her coveted swim time.  Which, PS, in order to not screw up all the work we have done with Mr. Chuck (our Infant Swim instructor) we were water-wing-less for the first time the entire long weekend.  And the girls did great!  Sadly the pool water was just a hair above freezing so swimming was limited this visit.

Driving home the fact that she does NOT want to see Despicable Me 1 again.