Our Adventures with Noah and Kylie: Fun stuff - new car, playdates, lake and new orleans

This past weekend, Noah and I headed up to the lake to spend time with my parents while Waylon and six other guys went to New Orleans for Cory's bachelor weekend!

But first, a quick update on the previous weekend! We've been thinking about replacing one of our cars with.... a MINIVAN!.... for a while and we've been doing online research but hadn't had a chance to actually go test drive anything. We spent a marathon evening while Nana and Grandad babysat and spent the next day looking as well. We weren't planning to actually move on anything but we ended up finding a deal we couldn't pass up and jumped on it! So last Monday and Tuesday evenings were crazy trying to get all that sorted out. But we did and we now have a new (to us anyway) 06 Honda Odyssey. It has all the bells and whistles and we are so happy!

Car shopping with Noah - he picked out his ride!

Our new ride

The night we brought the car home, we showed Noah that it has a DVD player in it and he wanted to watch Pinocchio so we sat in the garage and watched about 15 minutes of it before bedtime! :-)

In between car shopping that weekend, we spent a lot of time with Maddie and fam! Saturday night, we met them at Moe's for dinner and the kids got to run around on the patio afterwards. They seemed to really enjoy that. The next morning, we took them to our pool which was so fun! See more pictures on their blog - I didn't do well with the pictures! Then later on Sunday afternoon, Janet and Maddie came over so Janet could go through Noah's old clothes so she can use them for her new little boy who will arrive in about a month! Noah and Maddie had a good time playing and somehow both ended up in Noah's bed! :-) I really wish I had gotten a picture of that.

Daddy and Noah at the pool

Noah sitting on the bins of his outgrown clothes.

Thursday morning, Waylon left bright and early to head to the airport for New Orleans. They had a really great guys weekend away! We all missed each other though and were glad to be reunited when he got home late last night. Waylon has no evidence of the weekend, so there's no pictures of his fun times - maybe that's a good thing!! :-)

Noah and I left Thursday morning also and Noah really enjoyed watching the movie 'Cars' on the way to the lake! We had a great relaxing weekend with Grammy and Papa. I was a little nervous about how Noah would do since we had a rough time with sleeping and him being clingy at the beach. He did great though and I really got to relax and enjoy. Grammy set up a new big boy room for Noah and he loved it! Pictures....

Feeding the fishies at the marina

Noah and Grammy made me an early birthday cake. It was hilarious watching Noah 'help'. He helped with the writing and did some of the flowers - eating most of them, too of course. Then she turned him loose with the red icing. It was so funny.

When it was time for dessert, they lit candles and sang Happy Birthday to me. Noah sang the whole song and blew out the candles - twice! (he insisted we do it again!). :-)

Papa took Noah fishing... he used a real fishing pole with real bait. No luck this time but lots of nibbles!!

Noah always has to drive the boat. This time, he really did a good job with steering and seemed to kinda understand what he was doing! He's going to be driving the boat for real very soon...