Our Weekend Adventures

Our Weekend Adventures

For the first day of Summer we took both girls to a wedding. Claire hadn't been to a wedding since she was a baby. It was hot and muggy when we arrived but the sun was out and looked like the bride and groom were going to have a nice day. The ceremony was beauitful and then soon after we ate dinner which was catered by Danny's Whole Hog, it was delicious! They made two cake pops for each person and also had a self serve sundae bar with all the fixings. Yum! Claire was ready to dance the night away as soon as they started to play music. Boy did she bust a move out there! 

The bride being walked down the isle

Claire flipping through the wedding itinerary

Abby did well considering the heat, mosquitoes and thunderstorm that pasted over us, luckily we were under the tent. I was able to breastfeed her in the car twice with the AC on full blast and put her down for a 40 minute nap on the front seat. Around 9:00 pm we started to get ready to go home, dark clouds with lightning and thunder followed us home from the wedding. The girls were both sleeping by 10:30, which is extremely late for them but it was worth the late night for the fun that we had with both girls. 

Abby napping on the front seat while the thunderstorm passed over us

After a late night Saturday Claire slept in until 9:30, Abby on the other hand slept great 4 1/2 hours the first time then almost 3 hours the second time, she was awake for good around 7:20. It was another gorgeous day and Kyle set up the pool his parent bought the girls. It is much bigger than her other pool. 

We ate lunch, chicken caesar salad with a strong garlic dressing homemade by moi. here is the dressing recipe I use all the time by Michael Smith http://chefmichaelsmith.com/recipe/caesar-salad-with-lemon-parmesan-dressing/#.U6ifMf3ePwI 

Claire and Abby both went down for naps at 1:30 and slept for over 2 hours. I was able to do some serious work on each of their baby books. I had developed pictures the week before and was able to glue them into their baby books and write some captions. It was so nice to have sometime to myself without Abby fussing or Claire needing my attention.

It was Claire's first time eating salmon, she liked it!

After their naps Claire put on her bathing suit and we all went outside to watch her have fun in the pool. Kyle marinated some salmon steaks to BBQ. He doesn't like to eat fish but wanted to try it again. He made a delicious dinner, salmon, rice and grilled asparagus and zucchini. It was a perfect way to end the day! 

Claire enjoying her pool

How did you spend the first day of summer?

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