That's a good day.

What a day! Starting at 7:00 this morning, we hit the ground running. We met a friend for breakfast at Bob Evans around 8:30, where I ate entirely too much! I absolutely LOVE the Country Biscuit Breakfast, and can't seem to tell myself to stop eating until it's all gone! After breakfast, we visited until around 11:00, and then headed home. Our stay at home was brief, though, because we soon got back in the van and headed to the mall to get a few school outfits for Sebastian (more sales at Penny's that I was more than happy to take advantage of!).

From there, another half-hour rest at home and then off to a birthday party (I FINALLY got to see my sister's house - she's only been living there since May 2006!). After the party, we went to eat Mexican food (my favorite - ask Lucas LOL), which was a total circus act since my kids were tired and ready to be done running around. Meagan made a rice mountain under her chair, and topped it off with crumbled nacho chips. Lovely. And Isaac and Sebastian wouldn't eat their cheese quesadillas, but were more than happy to eat a tortilla with cheese dip on it (isn't that the same as a cheese quesadilla????). Anyway....

Finally back at the homestead - we started out just chillin' and playing in the yard. A little later, Grandpa headed out toward the pond, and, no surprise, the three little ducklings followed right behind. That very quickly progressed into wading in the water, which then took a quick turn to swimming fully dressed! They had a GREAT time! They built sand castles and dug for dinosaur bones and just plain played their hearts out. By the end of the night, they had hauled buckets of wet soggy sand back and forth from the water to the beach; they had soaked through at least one outfit each; they were covered from head to toe in sand; and Meagan had taken a face dive into the water (rescued by Grandma - this is about her 4th 'rescue' this summer - she's nuts!). Sebastian said, 'Grandma, this is the best thing I ever did at your house.' That's a good day.

(Slideshow at the top of the page)