'Tis the Season...

...of BBQ's!!!!!!!!!

The first BBQ of the long holiday weekend was today at The Brennan's house. Everything was starting early enough in the day and Derek doesn't work tonight, so we decided to risk messing with the kids' long nap in order for the 4 of us to attend as a family. Outside of Derek's upcoming 3 week vacation, these opportunities for all of us to socialize don't present themselves very often so we were pretty excited to see everyone!

Ricky & Heidi have an amazing backyard and 2 kids of their own (Holly will be 4 in October and Kylee is 10 months), so there was lots of fun stuff for S&Z to play with!

There was tons of water table fun!!!

Holly also has 2 little houses like ones we have played with at a few friend's houses this summer.

We found frogs,

And had lots of fun playing with Holly!

Silas and Zoe typically nap for 2+ hours, so they were running on fumes by 4:30pm with only a 30 minute snooze on the drive down. Because Derek had been awake since 9pm last night, he was also exhausted. We fed them a quick dinner before they went in the bathtub and Derek went to bed. Here are the faces of tired toddlers at the end of a very fun day,

They were asleep before 7pm... 


It was wonderful seeing everyone today! Me and the kids will be ready to do it all again with Eliza & her family the afternoon of the 4th!