Weekend in Review

We had a busy weekend! It was a lot of fun but we are all a little worn out. One nice thing that happened from all of the busyness is that Reece has had two good nights of sleep in a row! Woohoo! (Good being a relative term compared to how he had been waking up at least three times a night.)

Saturday we went to the Durham Museum of Life and Science. We had been wanting to go for a while but just hadn't had a chance to check it out. Our neighbor and friend, Ms. Sarah, gave us some free tickets so it was time to check it out! It was a perfect day to enjoy being outside. The weather was barely in the 80s and a little breezy. The museum has a lot of outdoor stuff to do so we were looking forward to being outside.

True to form, Reece screamed the whole way there so we were all more than excited when we got there. They have some indoor stuff to do but because the weather was so nice we headed right outside. The first thing we found was a farm exhibit. They had goats, alpacas, a donkey, pig, bunnies and all kind of fun stuff to look at.

Then we found Hailey's favorite, "the bug museum". Ewwww! They had all kind of bugs and things to make your skin crawl: bees, spiders, cockroaches, crawdads, colorful frogs, and a whole butterfly room. Hailey said she liked the bees the best.

Then we headed back outside for a train ride! It was such a nice day to sit and relax on a little train and look at all they had to offer. Hailey had a blast and even screamed going thru the tunnel!

Reece enjoyed it too!

Next we found the dinosaur trail. Hailey was super excited about the big dinosaurs. At the end she even got to dig for fossils!

Miss Sarah and a few of her friends came and found us to take silly pictures on the dinosaur.

We also went thru an "In the Wild" exhibit where they had lots of natural areas with different animals. Even two black bears, two wolves and lemurs!

After all of that walking and excitement we decided to head home and see the rest another day. Hailey was getting tired and hungry and so were the rest of us. We will definitely go back and check out the rest another day!

Sunday morning these two goobers were being silly during my picture taking.

Reece had a rough morning in the nursery. When I came down to feed him, he was being held by one of the pastors! They said he was having a tough time calming down. :( Well I fed him, took him back to the nursery and headed down to the college class because Ryan was teaching... not 20 minutes later I got called back because he was screaming...poor baby.

We went home for lunch and naps after church and then that afternoon headed out to New Life Camp for our Leadership Appreciation Picnic. We had a great dinner and lots of time to hang out with friends. They had bounce houses set  up in the gym for the kids, one big one and one smaller one. At first I only let Hailey go in the smaller one because there were lots of bigger kids in the other one. But Ryan came to find us and let her in the big one (most of the bigger kids were gone). He said she climbed in and started screaming, "I'm a big kid!" over and over. Ha! This was the only picture I took. That girl bounced for an hour.

After the bouncing we decided it was time to go home and head to bed. They both slept so well!
We had a great weekend spending time as a family and hanging out with friends!