Weekend Fun- part 1

Well this past weekend was one of the most fun weekends we have had in a long time! Our really good friends, Brandon & Carrie, invited us over for a cookout for Brandon's Birthday Saturday night. We were so glad that I was off this past weekend and were able to go. I really wanted Josh to get to see Wade play at Splash ground so we decided to head to Kinston first and then to Greenville. Well we could not have been more excited when our other great friends, Jennifer and Stephanie, and their families along with the Nicholson's decided to come also. We met Jennifer and Stephanie and their husband right after we got married (we were all in the same bible study.) We are so blessed to have such great friends in Greenville. We missed Jamie (Jennifer's husband) but we all had a great time catching up. Between the 4 families we have 5 boys and one little girl on the way! The boys had a blast and so did the big kids. Here are some pictures of everyone at the splashground.

I love the picture below of Wade... this is timid Wade. It only takes about 2 seconds of standing still and watching for this child to realize he is not afraid of the water. After the minute or so he stood there he was wide open the rest of the time. Now remember Wade is a hungry boy so we would have to stop a couple of times to eat! I never have to worry about this child being hungry he will always tell me "yum yum" when he wants to eat. I guess he was burning off all those calories with all the running and playing he was doing. I love the second picture too because it is an action shot of him. He just got finished running under the arches that have a water mist spraying out of them and was laughing so hard!

Here are Wade and Josh splashing a little bit. This area is an all time favorite for the Mommies because this is where we love to sit and watch the kids play. Water pools around this area and it is the perfect place to sit and stay cool.

Here is Wade eating his gogurt! I think he would eat yogurt for all three meal if we let him. The second picture is of the girls catching up (there is one random little girl in the picture who loved playing with the babies.) The other two big boys were running around playing. It was so nice to get to spend some time together, it had been too long. 

Love this picture of Josh and Wade. I wish I would have had my video camera because they would run around in circles under the water and Wade would laugh so hard. He would say "more" when Josh would stop running around. I am so glad Josh got to go this time because I know how much fun Wade had playing with him (I think Josh had a little bit of fun too.)  After leaving Kinston we grabbed lunch and then we had to go pick up our DVD's that we had made from our camera. Of course it was no where near Kinston or Carrie's house in Ayden; it took us an hour and a half to get there and back but Wade slept the entire way so it was worth it. I know he would have not napped well at their house because he would have been too excited. Carrie and Brandon were so sweet to give us their room and bathroom so all three of us could shower and get ready before the cookout. We had so much fun at the cookout. I took so many cute pictures of the kids but I will save that for my next post!