July 16, 2011

  • Bang! Perfect Weekend.

    I don't know what it is with the perfect summer weekends we've got going on here in the Midwest but dang, I'll take it. Makes up for the weeks and weeks of rain, I guess...

     

    This past weekend Marky went up to Milwaukee with his boys to have a day off and I took the kids to my parents for a day of basically sitting around playing Bang and/or swimming in the pool. Caroline and Rox are here from Germany, plus my brothers are all home from school, so it was a full house. Perfect. We snacked, we joked, we played games and the kids wore themselves out in the pool and on the playground equipment. Like I said... perfect.

    My little sister and I did a silly photo shoot while we were chilling in the hammock. Now that she's getting a little older and is losing her baby face a bit, we're actually starting to look more like sisters. It's a strange thing, being 18 years older than your sibling. There's such a huge gap there. I mean, I'm old enough to be her mother - my own kids are just a few years younger than her. But damn, she is growing up fast. Definitely not a baby anymore!

    Also, please enjoy this totally adorable picture of my parents together on the swing set.