Good times with Great Friends!

OK, so August is gone-YIKES! :( I started this post last week but just wrapped it up today-=BUSY!

We have been making the most of our summer and these last few HOT(think the past few weeks), sticky days enjoying time spent with each other, family, and friends. A few Sunday's ago- Grandma Ne-Ne (Todd's mom-Anita), Paw-paw(my dad), John, and Justin came to play and have dinner with us. We all really enjoyed each others company and Todd loved fixing everyone ribs on his smoker! Give that man a reason to BBQ and he is ON IT!!! Seriously- I think he has smoked SOMETHING every weekend since it arrived in our house, unless we are out of town of course. Trust me, I am not complaining at all! I will gladly eat all of the yummy food he prepares!

Lucas LOVES any chance he gets to play with his big cousin Justin!

The following weekend we headed south to visit our good friends the Webb's. On the way we got to catch up with another good friend from college and her family. Carrie is having their second little one this Friday! Addie is going to be such a great big sister. She took good care of Lucas during our time with them ;) If you remember back from one of my posts in Feb. this is the sweet little girl who planted a big kiss on Lucas' pacifier during our mommy and toddler weekend. She is a doll..We are excited for their new little addition's arrival and hope to see them again soon!

We try to get together a few times during the year with the Webb's and catch up either at their place, ours, or in between. Lucas and Russell are so much fun to watch and we enjoy our time together no matter what we do! This time around we made the most of our time- while the dad's took the kids to the park, Wendy and I hit up a great yard sale for some great finds! Of course, I always leave spending more money then her- Todd says this is a common shopping pattern for us. She gets us on these shopping excursions and I am the one who shows up with all of the bags ;) I did great though! LOTS of fall clothes for Lucas, some DVD's, a new Boppy (we need two now!), bibs and a second potty chair for Lucas, and even a few little things for the girls :) Not too bad I would say! All for $83.00 :)

Next, we thought it would be a great idea to take the boys to the zoo...UMM....can someone tell me WHY we thought this? It was AFRICA hot out there that day as the tropical storm made it's way to the coast. But we went and rode the train, checked out a few of the animal exhibits, had BIG cups of lemonade, and called it a day :) It was a nice zoo and I think we would love it- in the FALL or SPRING...not a 95 degree AM with no wind whatsoever! ;) Even the poor animals could barely move around, they found shade wherever they could and laid around...not that I blame them at all. Even the elephants mud bath was looking pretty good to me! The company was great though and in the end, that was all that mattered!

We did get to see these new lion cubs up close, that was great! I think they were the only playful animals that morning....We vegged the rest of our time with the Webb's , which was perfect considering the yucky weather! We had a yummy supper from the grill and chatted for the evening. Russell tried to introduce Lucas to the wonderful world of cartoons, he watched some but still would rather play or read...We have noticed that he likes Thomas the Train and Bob the Builder...We'll go from there. Lucas got sick that weekend though so he stayed dopped up on Motrin to keep the fever at bay! Here are the little monkeys playing with the daddy's who I might add are big kids themselves!

Our weekend went by so fast but we loved every minute of it, even when we had two boys awake at 5 am because of our grumpy sick little man :) We can't wait to do it again!