Soccer, parties, and camping... who needs sleep?

This weekend, like many others, was packed full of fun activities. Friday night, we didn't do much - mainly recovering from the family-wide-Kate-induced lack of sleep the night before. After a few doses of Sudafed and Benadryl, she was her happy little self again. I'm sure someone at the FDA will come get me for giving Sudafed to my 2 year old since it's no longer indicated for that age group. Oh well :)

Saturday morning, I got to sleep in and Todd fed the kids breakfast. I woke up to them playing softball in the foyer - awesome. Brett and Todd took their softball/t-ball game outside and Kate and I went for a long walk with the intention of detouring by the preschool playground and then making it to Brett's soccer game (it's only a couple miles). The walk was fine. We made it up to the playground, only to find that it was locked! They never locked it last year. I was annoyed. Kate was annoyed. Kate showed her annoyance. Loudly. We'll leave it at that. Luckily, we didn't have much time to kill before Brett's game.

Brett still loves playing soccer. I'm sure it helps that Todd is on the field coaching, but I'm pretty sure that Brett would like it no matter what. This week, though, I think he was the only one that really wanted to be there. They were missing their 2 older boys (read: bigger, faster, stronger) and they were playing a pretty good team. Todd was missing his assistant coach. The game was not pretty to say the least!

This picture pretty much sums it up - by the end of the hour, half of the kids were more interested in watching the cars on the road behind the field!

Post-game wrap up

After the game, we went to Chick-fil-a for lunch, rushed home, cleaned the kids, and got them down for naps. They NEEDED naps to get through the rest of their busy social schedules! Kate had a birthday party for a little boy in her class. I didn't take many pictures, but check this out - Kate used to be scared to death of this climbing wall thing, but look at her go! Yay, Kate!

Of course, she still loves the slides :)

Brett and Todd went camping with our friend, Brad, and his oldest daughter, Ally. They went to Jordan Lake, which is about 30-45 minutes from our house. We used to go camping there with Brad and his wife, Sarah, and two other couples every year about this time - you know, before we all started popping out babies. When we first started going, about 6 years ago, we had no kids - now there are 10 kids!

They went fishing with Ally's fishing pole. She caught a fish. Brett "caught his worm" and was very proud of it.

It looks so relaxing... and to think I was at a birthday party with 2 and 3 year olds. I think I drew the short straw!

Sitting by the fire to stay warm - it got down to about 50 degrees that night.