Another - interesting - but good weekend!

Hey - According to our last post - we were still in Dollywood. Well, we left Thursday afternoon and came home! :) Would have liked to stay there though. Lots of cool things to do!

Friday - it was back to work. Boooo hooo hoo! :)

Sabbath we got up to go to another church here in the Chattanooga area with some old friends who have 3 kids around our girls ages. But when I got Joelle out of bed, her eyes were all matted and red and had lots of discharge. So we got nervous - called a Dr to see if she had pink-eye and got ready to head to the do the pediatrician. But after she got out of the shower, it all completely cleared up and she looked 100% fine - so we decided to skip the Dr visit and all the extra charges.

We were extremely late for church so we just headed out for a family day walking around about 3 different parks in the Chattanooga area and did some exploring. It was good. Then lunch and naps for all.

We got up - and my in-laws who are in town came down - and we all just hung out together for a while. Then the girls had an invitation to a slumber party. So we dropped them off and headed out for an adult evening. It'd been a while since we'd had one of those! :) We went to the Olive Garden - waited 45 min, with no stressing over what our kids were getting into so or them getting antsy. Finally got seated and ordered - then the salad and breadsticks arrived, which we devoured and waited and waited and waited for our meal to arrive - again, with no stress of keeping kids amuzed while waiting. On the way home, we stopped and got some ice-cream and then watched "In Good Company" - pretty good movie - ate ice-cream, and relaxed. The in-laws took off at that point, Doreen played Boggle on the computer and I read a book until 1am. Then we crashed.

We slept in a little - got up made breakfast - didn't have to tell the girls to eat, or quit playing or eat - which was a nice break - then headed over to our friends to pick the girls up.

Turns out they had a fun time too watching movies and eating pizza, that they made, and then crashed late at night.

It was a good time for us all.

At home we all just lounged around a bit - the girls were kinda tired - so we put 'em down for a nap and continued lounging ourselves.

Of course - Doreen was in kind of a funny mood. She was singing "Peter picked a peck of pickles" in a "B" rated opera singers voice. Aaarrrggghhhh. He, he, he - it was actually hilarious and scary at the same time! :)

They got up and ate. Since it was raining - we headed to the mall to play at the play place. I think everyone else had the same idea. The mall was a jam-packed mad-house. But the girls had a blast playing. Doreen just chilled - I got a cable to connect our GPS to the computer and then got back and finished up my book. Then home to play a little more - hook stuff up to our computer and then beddy bie for the girls.

I watched the Indy race - I'd recorded while we were gone, Doreen played Boggle, more and then we crashed at a very decent hour!

Aaaaahh - what a good weekend!

Hope yours was just as fufilling!

Have a good week!