joie de vivre: Last Week of Summer

Before I knew it the last week of summer had rolled around. We had done most of the fun things on our summer list, but we still had a few remaining. I knew we wouldn't actually get to everything this summer, but it was great to have a list of ideas for days that we needed something fun to do.

So the kids and I decided to pack the last week of summer with as much fun as possible! We started out Monday at the pool. I snapped this picture of Charlotte on our way there -- such a diva!

Monday night Matt came home early and Madeleine & I had a girls night out. We wanted to have one before school started and this was the only night we had free all week. We went to eat Chinese food (her choice) and then did some shopping at the mall. She's been asking to explore our mall, not that there is much to explore, but it was what she wanted to do. Then we made a stop at the bookstore and then at Braums for dessert. It was a great evening of talking and we did some serious "girl talk" as well that night.

Tuesday we played at home and had a Wii tournament. Then in the afternoon we headed to Fun City to play. The kids had been wanting to go to Fun City for awhile and this was a good night. Matt met us there and we ordered dinner and took advantage of their double tokens night. :)

There was a crazy skeeball machine that night that was shooting out tickets like crazy and all 3 kids ended up with a huge number of tickets to redeem which made the night even better for them!

Wednesday morning we got up and headed to Rogers to go bowling. The bowling alley up there had a free bowling program for kids this summer and we've had fun bowling several times. They have these cool dino-tails that Charlotte & Harrison can use to help them and everyone is happy.

This girl got a strike her first try!

We finished up bowling and met up with AJ, Drew & Titus for lunch at Chick Fil A. We'd been planning for Harrison to have a long afternoon playdate with Drew while Adam was at a birthday party and they could have some special time together. He was so excited!! It worked out great, because Madeleine, Charlotte & I met up with the Scogin girls to have back to school pedicures. This was Charlotte's first pedicure and she was in heaven!

Charlotte & Whitney having such a fun time together! I couldn't help smiling the whole time just looking at them -- they were loving every moment!

We headed back to their house to play for awhile -- Whitney wanted to ride with us so we did a quick car seat switch and Madeleine rode with the big girls and I took the little girls. Their conversation was so cute on the way!

Thursday was pretty low key for us. We needed to double check school supplies and label everything. The Scogins came over to our house to play that day and then late in the afternoon we headed to open house at the kids new school!

Friday morning was open house at Charlotte's new preschool. I took a bag of colors/books and Madeleine and Harrison were amazingly good and sat out in the hall for an hour while I met with Char's teacher and got the scoop about her school. And, Charlotte was pretty excited about starting!