Memorial Day Weekend

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! It was absolutely perfect! We started out with a visit from Mimi & Grandad on Friday and Saturday which was a great start to our fun weekend! Matt had to work on Friday, but the rest of us hung out and enjoyed Madeleine's first day of summer. :) Madeleine had her first trip with us to the flea market in Prairie Grove and found lots of "treasures."

After softball on Saturday and saying goodbye to Mimi and Grandad, and then church on Sunday, I was ready for a nice relaxing Monday. And, it turned out to be the most perfect day! We spent almost all day outside. I'd been eyeing a big blow up waterslide for awhile. I'd priced them out and thought it would be such a fun thing to get for the kids. Well, our Aldi put them on a great sale so we got one! I was all set to give Matt the hard sell on why we needed one, but he was all for it too! Yay! I was thrilled that they still had one in stock and the kids were soooo excited to play on it! It's going to give us hours of fun this summer and hopefully summers to come. 

First thing Monday morning, we blew up the slide and off they went!

 Charlotte had to give it a try as well. She didn't like the sprinkler on the top, but loved climbing up there.

 I love this picture of my two girls. Madeleine was having a tea party with Charlotte. She is such a great big sis!

 We took a break for lunch and the kids watched a movie while Charlotte napped, and then they were out there again.

Charlotte discovered that she loved jumping into her little pool. She did this over and over again! Her poor little knees were red by the time she was done for the day!

 At some point we grilled out some yummy dinner and the kids worked on their biking without training wheels. It's slow going, but we are getting there. Matt is such a great teacher and hopefully they will be riding by the end of summer.

 We ended with more swimming and finally, ice cream cones. Perfect end to a great day! I had such a wonderful time watching them enjoy their new "toy" and having fun outside. We all played hard that day and were ready for bedtime that night.