The Fun in Between

This past month has been crazy.  April has been intense to say the least.  In true 'April Style'... we closed out the month by teaching/working all day long last Wednesday.  Then, I picked up Wes only to drive for 6 hours until finally arriving at Wes' brother's place.  Which means we finally crashed at 11:30pm, leaving about 30 minutes 'on the table' in the month of April.  Come morning, it was May...what we had been working towards for a lot of weeks!  Our weekend of family & fun was indeed packed- loaded with goodness, rest and fun adventures for all of us :)  We are so full of blessings.  Here's a peak at our weekend adventure...while Wes and Ryan checked out a plethora of used bookstores, the rest of us headed to the zoo!

 Discovering the rain forest...

That evening...a slumber party with Auntie & Justin :) 

New pj's, cake balls with candles, popcorn and Auntie- perfection by Kaleb's standards! 

The next morning, Wes headed back to his brother's with Kaleb.  Which means, that Ashley & I had an afternoon all to ourselves.  We found some antique shops, World Market (where I bought my first 'thing' for Little Sister :) and my first trip to IKEA.  Oh, my....good thing I have no money and my house really isn't falling apart.  Oh, did we see some fun things though.  We rounded out a great afternoon by picking up Justin we headed out for a special treat...dinner at a true Ethiopian restaurant.  It meant so much that Justin and Ashley went so out of their way, tried something new and really treated me to something I just don't have access to.  It was wonderful... injera, my favorite cabbage dish and all sorts of yummy Ethiopia food.  

In case we hadn't already had enough fun... the next morning Ashley & I headed to a farmer's market.  It was great!  Samples of fresh peach pie- always good!  I can't wait to see what my new raspberry, strawberry and super sweet cherry tomato produces this summer :) 

Ahhh, and that was only part 1 of our weekend adventure. 

Saturday, we met up with Kaleb, Wes and the Roth gang- more fun indeed!!

The pictures pretty much tell it all, we're blessed.  Very, very blessed!

 Sooooooo much fun playing with the cousins!

 Hide & Seek & Attack

 Followed by a marshmallow coma... he downed three in about 3 minutes.  

Kaleb even cooked them himself! 

 In between it all... a surprise birthday party for me!  

Very thoughtful and very much appreciated!

My favorite....angel food cake & strawberries :)  Thanks so much!

 And, the grand finale- smores, love me some smores!