Awesome Spring Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend.  We started it off at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon.  Mackenzie's elementary school had its carnival.  I can remember my elementary school's carnival and I loved going every year.  So I volunteered for the first shift of the carnival and was assigned to the beverage station.  It was a beautiful evening.  I was originally staffed inside, but luckily they needed a couple of people to go outside and the woman that happened to be next to me asked if I wanted to go outside.  I jumped at the chance and we got to be outside for an hour and a half and I could see
Brian and the kids as they enjoyed the carnival.  After my shift was done I got to go with the kids as they played the games and as Mackenzie found some of her friends from her class.  It was a lot of fun, and we stayed until the end at 8 o'clock. 

 

We had a very busy Saturday.  I took Isaac to the grocery store and Brian took Mackenzie to the tractor store.  We originally thought that the kids would be swapped, but they both enjoyed their outing with Mom and Dad.  Brian and I took Lauren to lunch and horseback riding while the kids hung out with Grandma and Grandpa at their cousins baseball games.

 

I think that Lauren had a great time at the horse farm on her horseback riding lesson (I also think she liked lunch at the Chinese buffet). 

 

She got to learn how to groom the horse:

then got to lead it out for her ride:

My camera ran out of battery after this shot, so Brian took pictures of her actually on the horse with his phone.  She did really well and I think she really enjoyed the afternoon.

 

We picked up the kids and then went over to their cousin's house for Lauren and Carson's birthday party.  Our kids were definitely tired when we left them with Grandma and Grandpa after the party as we headed to Northern for a concert.  Grandpa said they went to bed very easily that night.

 

Today we spent the morning outside.  I did a lot of weeding, planted some bulbs, and the kids and I started some seeds for the garden.  Brian went to another Tractor Supply store and finally got the lawn mower working, at least enough to mow the lawn.  By the way, I have a great husband, I would never have thought that it was possible to replace a transmission in a riding lawn mower on our own.  Then when things still weren't working properly that we could fix that as well.

 

Anyway, after all that we had lunch and headed to a Mud Hens game.  They had a Star Wars themed weekend, and Isaac was super excited because his cousins let him borrow a Storm Trooper costume.  Brian's coworkers and some UK students that travelled to Ohio for the concert last night were supposed to join us at the game, but unfortunately they were in a car accident in Ada.  Everyone was okay, but one student had to go to the hospital and was suffering from whiplash (they were rear ended). 

 

The game went really quickly, so the kids made it through the whole game.  The Mud Hens lost, but the kids didn't care.  They had a great time, ate a lot of ballpark food, and enjoyed the warm sunny day.

 

 

I tried to get a shot of the Mud Hens uniform, which was supposed to look like Chewbacca.  This was the best shot I got:

So we had a wonderful spring weekend.  The weather was fantastic, we had lots of fun activities, we got a lot accomplished.  We couldn't ask for any more.