Memorial Day Weekend 2016!

Ooops! I never published this.  This was last weekend and hopefully I'll get to this weekend before next weekend, if that makes sense!

What a weekend!  The boys are now officially done with school for the summer.  Their last day was Wednesday.  Ben was bummed and wanted "4 more days" and Josh must have been bummed too because they checked the "a little fussy" box for the first time ever on his daily report.

They both had such a great year and I can hardly believe how much they've grown in 8 short months.  Look at how little they were in September!  All of their teachers had nothing but great things to say about them.  (I got to pick them up for their last day!  Ben was SO excited!)  Unfortunately, it turns out Joshy was probably a little crabby on his last day of school, it was because he wasn't feeling well.  He ended up having a fever and then threw up overnight.  Poor baby!  I truly hate when my boys are sick.

He seemed better by Friday evening and then Saturday morning he was back to his old self.  Both boys were up before the sun.  We kicked off the summer farmer's market season, went to the garden store, the fruit store, and the hardware store all before 10:00AM!  The boys were such great helpers all day.  Ben helped pick out the flowers at the farmers market and used the shovel that he insisted my mom buy for him at an estate sale because it was "just the right shovel and just the right size to help daddy."  Love that boy.  And if Ben does it, Joshy wants to do it too!  It is so cute when he copies Ben's every move.  EVERY SINGLE MOVE!  I love how much he loves his big brother.

After planting, we attempted to fly Ben's kite, but unfortunately there wasn't enough wind thanks to all of our trees. :)

Unfortunately, Ben crashed later that day and had his own fever.  :(  Sad boy, sad momma.

He had a fever, but of course did not want to take any medicine and he said he felt fine and wanted to go to the park.  That's probably one of the last things I would want to do with a fever, but Ben doesn't have time to be sick.  The only way we could get him to take some ibuprofen was to go to the park.  And as soon as the med kicked in, he looked like this:

After the park, it was early to bed with fingers crossed that the fevers and bad germs were GONE.  Thankfully, both boys were happy and healthy in the morning.  We went to church and breakfast before we made an impromptu trip to the zoo.  The weather was perfection!

After the zoo, we went to our friend's 40th birthday party.  I didn't take many pictures, but they had a putting green in their backyard so both boys were happy campers.  

On Monday morning, we got everything ready for the Memorial Day Parade!  Although it was supposed to rain all weekend, the weather could not have been better.  We had reserved some spots at the parade the day before because it gets so crowded.  We had a pretty big group so I'm glad we had plenty of room.  

Joshy was taking the whole parade in.  He was pretty serious for most of it, but he seemed to like it.  He loved the marching bands and of course the candy!  At one point he was double fisting suckers.  He would take a few licks and then end up dropping one in the mud.  This continued until we took the suckers away.

Finally, we ended our super weekend with our first swim of the season.  Both Ben and Josh were in heaven.

We were all beat by Monday night but oh so thankful for a long weekend.  Hopefully the rest of the week will go as quickly as our weekends seem to go!