~My sister, Steph, invited my boys to stay at her house from Monday until today. How awesome is SHE?!! It has been so nice. I did miss them lots last night at bedtime. Not used to having them gone so long but it's good for us to spend a little time away from each other. They need that fun time away and we need the break!!! I LOVE that she did that! She is so brave! She has 2 little kids and she is pregnant. She even braved taking our 3 and her little boy to the Payson swimming pool alone. She's amazing! We were too afraid to let Gracie stay because she hasn't ever spent a night away from us and we were afraid she'd be sad at bedtime. We live an hour away so it wouldn't be very good for anyone if that happened. So, we took the kids to her house Monday and we went to Tucanos for lunch since Brian got a free meal post card since his birthday is this month. Then we caught a movie at a theatre that has cheap tickets. We saw Sherlock Holmes. Gracie stayed with Steph that afternoon while we did that stuff and then we took her home with us. She.was.not.happy to be leaving!! Steph made sure that my boys had lots of fun and she even said they behaved themselves really well. I guess they listened to my gazillion lectures. hehe When she brought them home today, Gracie was in hog heaven! She just LOVES Steph's kids! When they left she stood on the front porch and watched them drive away until they were completely out of sight and then ran to her bedroom. I went in to check on her and she was standing in her room crying and said, "I miss them!" Then Steph said that when they got home her Josh sat on the couch with big tears running down his face and said, "I miss them!" So sad. They broke my heart. We need to live closer so they can spend more time together.
~On Memorial Day we went to the cemetery to put flowers on Brian's dad's grave. As we were walking Zacky (12) said, "That is so sad!" We asked what was sad, figuring that he had seen a grave for a baby or something. He said, "Someone named their kid Orange." He cracked us up!
~Gracie has been surprising us lately with her understanding and use of the English language. Last night Brian told her we were going to a church BBQ. She came and excitedly told me that we were going to a BBQ at the King's house. Last year we went to a couple of church BBQ's at the King's house from our church. The King's moved several months ago so we were so surprised that she would remember those BBQ's and that she would remember the King's names. Then tonight Brian was scooping some ice cream and Gracie said, "Ladies first." How did she know that?! She's so funny!
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