Cottage!

We picked Drew up early from school on Wednesday and headed to the cottage for the night.  We were originally thinking that James would just go for the day.  Take the couch up, pull the nasty carpet, etc because it was supposed to be crappy/rainy weather on Thursday.  Drew caught wind of this idea and would have nothing of it...if daddy was going to the cottage, so was he.  We decided to all go, and take our chances with cabin fever if the weather was crappy.

We had a campfire Wednesday night.

James and I enjoyed some beers at the campfire, the boys enjoyed some smores (ok, we enjoyed some smores too).

I tried to get a cute photo of them both blowing dandelions....I am not a photographer.

Drew and I played monopoly junior for the first time.  He LOVED it.  We played several times.

We roped daddy into playing while H was napping.

Drew's 1st fish of the season.

I'm really glad we all decided to go.  Wednesday night was a really nice night.  We had a nice dinner, James pulled the carpet/floor up, and then we had an awesome campfire.  Thursday morning, it did rain all morning...but the boys were happy to play inside, and we played a ton of monopoly junior....great game!  Hunter and I had a really long nap, so James took Drew out in the canoe (for 2 1/2 hours!).  They saw tons of turtles, fish and lots of plants.  Apparently Drew was enthralled the whole time.  Once I woke up (Hunter slept for a while after that), the 3 of us played a few more rounds of Monopoly junior and then we all got some outside time once H woke up.  Playing on their dome and fishing was on the agenda (as well as throwing rocks in the river....we're going to have to order some more rocks, I don't think we'll have any left once my boys are done with them!).  We had dinner there (yummy bbq) and then a peaceful drive home (both boys slept).  A quick watch of "Bethany ever after" for us (ok, for me) and then bedtime.  I ended up sleeping on the couch, as I have a nasty cold and couldn't breath if I was lying flat (Drew joined me at 2am..fun times).

Drew had his jump rope for heart event this afternoon at school, so I went and helped out with that.  It was adorable.  Drew was most impressed with the freezie they got as a treat afterwards.  A quick visit with the parents and then it was home.  I had to rush off to meet some girlfriends for a pedicure and a visit to Kelsy's for some appys and girl chat.

All in all, a wonderful couple of days!