The Long Weekend

What a fast week! I was completely wiped out by having kids back in the classroom... On Thursday, Mike found me crawling onto the couch at 8:10pm and I was out for the night! I am out of shape for this business!!

We had a great long weekend though - we went up to our friends the McReynold's house for Lexi's birthday party on Saturday. Here's Madelyn and her friend Isaac eyeing the cake, and Madelyn's face of ecstasy eating the cake.



The McReynold's compound is like a kid's (and adults!) paradise... they live in tepees all summer, have a massive trampoline straddling their creek, tree houses with slides (see picture), rope swings, a climbing wall, an outdoor child-size artist studio... needless to say, Madelyn was one happy and exhausted camper after the party!

On Sunday, we finally fulfilled one of Madelyn's summer-long dreams... to ride one of the horses at Snow King! We made our way up Snow King, and Madelyn got to ride on Apples, the white horse for whom her white goldfish is named after. She sat up there by herself (with me keeping her centered on the saddle!), and went on a little 3 minute tour of the hillside. Oddly enough, she didn't seem quite as jazzed as I thought she would be.





Maybe it wasn't quite what she was imagining:) She seemed equally as excited to play at the Snow King playground afterwards...