Memorial Day

We had a great Memorial Day this year.  Nothing happened.  Nothing huge or exciting but nonetheless, we had a great time.  The boys spent the night over at Grandma and Grandpa's house along with Ava.  It was their turn to spend the night.  Grandma told them that when school was out she would have them over.  They had such a great time too.  She set up a tent out in the front room as if they were going camping.  The kids were so excited about it.  The plan was for the kids to sleep in the tent and Grandma was going to sleep on the couch by them.  Well they all decided that the hard floor was not very comfortable and so Grandma ended up sleeping in the tent and the kids all on the couch.  Glad they had a good time.
We went to pick up our kids around noon and then we headed to the park to play.  I packed a big lunch and an extra change of clothing for the kids.  We had my neice Ava along for the fun too.  We had lunch, let the kids play on the playground and then run through the water features that they have there too.  It is a fun little water park in the summer.  After they were all soaked and cold, we changed their clothing and headed down to the river to throw rocks in.  The had a great "adventure" as Andrew and Keaton called it.  It was a good time.  I carried Ellie in the baby carrier. I could tell she was antsy to get down and run around like the other kids.  Sorry Ellie! You need to learn to crawl first sister.
After we had fun at the park/river, we loaded up and headed home.  All the neighbor kids were out so they had a big water fight with them and just kept really busy running around.  Hopefully they will sleep really well tonight.
We had a fun family bbq at our home and then we went to the cemetary that is just down the road from where we live, where my Grandfather was buried.  We make it a point to take our kids there every year on Memorial Day to pay tribute to him.  They really enjoyed that. We put some nice fresh flowers on his grave site and then wondered around to check out all the old, old headstones. The oldest one we found was from 1832.  That is old. 
Then we came home for some homemade donuts and more fun outside.  Ava decided that she wanted to sleep over tonight so they are all up stairs in their little beds we made for them watching a movie.  I love days like today.  We literally spent the entire day outside. I loved it!