Handlebar for the Third Time

 We have done this before.  First time.  Second Time.  But we just keep going back!

This time when we went, it was schedule for November.  It had been in the 60's the entire week before we went.  In fact, the DAY BEFORE, it was 70 degrees.  On the Saturday we chose, it was close to 30 degrees.  Are you kidding me??? Oh well, I was super warm.  I layered and layered and I felt pretty good.  Turns out you can only get so many pairs of socks on before your boots do not fit anymore.
Our driver's name was Andrew. He took great pictures for us.

 Group shot in front of the Handlebar!

 Couple photo!

 Couple photo with Ashley photobomb! Adorbz! ;-)

 We went on the handlebar earlier enough that we had time to eat dinner afterward.

 It still didn't help though.

Andrew felt fine the next day.  I did not.  Not fair.  Oh well.  Still had a fabulous time pedaling around the city once again.  Thanks again to the Staffords for planning a great time!

Another Busy Weekend... Last Soccer Game and B-day Parties!

 We had another busy weekend.  Imagine that! First it was Tommy's last soccer game on a cold COLD morning.

 The kids really did pretty well.  We actually purposefully scored a goal!! Tommy did great when he was goalie.

 He kicked it really well several times to start off.

I didn't get one of the good ones on video.  But this is a classic example of one of our soccer games.  The goalie kicks it off and one of our teammates tries to kick it into the wrong goal.  Haha! At the very beginning of the video, you can hear a set of sports parents yelling at their little girl.  They got a little mean.  It was ridiculous.  It was our first experience of bad sports parents screaming at their kids the entire game.  Since she's 5, she immediately shut down and stopped wanting to play and she was one of our best players.  It was pretty sad.  So parents, please don't yell at your kids.  This is supposed to be fun. 

He blocked all but one goal.  He really did great.  He loves that position.

Charlotte had a great time because the siblings of Tommy's other teammates were giving her candy.  Ha! Sugar rush!

She also found a pair of party favor sunglasses in my car.  They look great on her. They've only been stepped on a few times.

After the game, we handed out treat bags with tiny little trophies, bouncy soccer balls, soccer tattoos, and candy.  The kids loved them. It was definitely a learning season but at least they had a little fun too.

 Right after the party, we ate lunch quickly and headed over to Buccaneer Bay for the first birthday party of the day.  His buddy Noah was in his class last year.  They split the kids into two classes and Noah is in the other preschool class.  But he still wanted Tommy at his party.  How nice! I told Noah's mom that Tommy had a soccer game that morning and that we would be late.  I didn't realize we would be almost 2 hours late.  Whoops. 

But luckily, we still had an hour of party time left! Tommy has never been here before and we live a mile away.  He was a little apprehensive of everything at first.  He tried the little slide first.  Whee!

Then he tried the bigger slide.  He did not realize what he would be getting into.  Water on his head??? NOOOOO!!! Haha! He recovered quicker than I thought he would. 

There was so much stuff to do!

What Tommy and Noah spent the most time doing was trying to climb up the slide.  Luckily, there was hardly anyone there so they could take over the park.  They had so much fun together.  It was so cute. 

Side story: So Noah's mom is young and she was wearing a bikini in the pool.  She, Tommy, and Noah were playing around and Tommy grabbed her bikini top string in the back and untied it. Nothing showed but she had to get out of the pool to fix it.  I was mortified.  I gave him a stern 'talking to' and then went over to her to apologize.  She said, "Well maybe this wasn't the best choice of swimsuit for a kid's pool party."  Haha! She was right about that.

 After we got back from Noah's party, we headed down to Westfield for Max and Reese's Donut birthday party.  How fun is that? They had a donut truck frying up fresh donuts right there at their house.  The sad part is that we missed the donut truck.  Waaahhh waahhh.  We were also an hour and 45 minutes to their party.  Bummer.  But we still had donuts! Yum! Charlotte was a big fan!

 The kids also had fun playing. 

 They played in the bounce house, on the swingset, on the playing field.  They had a great time!

 We stayed pretty late at their house.  I felt bad that we were so late and then we stayed late.  We are the worst guests ever! But we haven't seen the Goldmans in a long time.  We really wanted quality time with them!

 Ashley was so kind to put up with us.  She even  offered to make our kids dinner and put up with our high maintenance requests to search through her cabinets to find something for Tommy to eat.  Almond butter and jelly for the win!

Almond butter sandwich smile!

We took off and headed home after that extremely busy day.  We couldn't do anything else the rest of the weekend because we were so exhausted.  What a fun weekend!

Parents Need Fun Times Too: Kevin's Birthday Edition

 Diane planned a super fun night for Kevin's birthday with a pink party bus tour around Indy. 

This whole rowdy group showed up to party. 

 Diane made Kevin dance with her on the bus to "I've Had the Time of My Life".  Pure romance!

Then Kevin proceeded to moon people as we drove around downtown Indy.  

 There was lots of dancing...

 And photobombing!

 We ordered and Uber.  He blasted the same 3 songs by Jason Derulo over and over and set up a disco ball on the console.  It was quite a ride home to Westfield. 

 Alan missed most of it. :)

 The next morning we went to McDonalds for breakfast.  Oh man, we NEVER eat McDonalds (they don't have anything Tommy can eat).  What a disgusting treat!! I was SOOOO excited. 

We came home and had a movie night with the family.  So much fun watching Big Hero 6 after missing our kiddos for the night.  So good to be home. 

Vegas 2015!

We went to Vegas in June for a couples trip. We took the opportunity to paaaaaartyyyyyy.


We started in the home pool. Met some friends and took a picture using the memes we had preappoved. (Peace sign, bunny ears, fake wiener if you watch South Park)



The girls got a pic together.



Our room was tiiiigghhhttt. We stayed at the MGM Signature Towers. Great place to stay!



Our room was a super nice suite.



Our view was amazing!




That night, you could find us in da club. We took a quick selfie before heading out. We went to the same club as we went to in 2012.



Why? Because it's outside and the view is awesome!!



We have a good time where ever we go but this club always increases the fun potential.



I didn't get the duck face memo.



We really classed up the place!




The next day we hung by another pool at MGM. It started raining at the perfect time in the afternoon. We had been drinking all day so we needed to take a break before another night of fun. We had dinner reservations so we needed to class ourselves up before dinner.



After dinner, we went to our fave club in Caesars called The Barge. It is the best! It's never crowded and we can totally take over the dance floor and do things like this. Tebowing once again!!


Andrew once again had tummy troubles so he had to go home early but I stayed out with the crew. I was super sad about him having to go back to the room but I was able to muster up the strength to have a good time. 😉



The next day we decided to venture outside our comfort zone and try Wet Republic the day time pool club. It was expensive and way out of our league but we went for it and had a great time!!



There were lots of super rich 20-something's in the pool but we decided we could definitely hang. And hang we did!



Party at the shallow end!!!



The pool got more and more crowded as the day went on.



We had an awesome time!!



There came a moment where it was decided we should leave (after 4 bottles of Tito's, that's a good indicator). Grant's back was in terrible shape so bestie Caveman Stafford helped him walk home several times.


We got lost (and stupid) on the way home.



Seriously. What a mess. It was a good thing we left! Grass is gooooooddd!!!



We tried to turn it around and clean up for dinner that night.



But we were still a mess. Fun happy ridiculously good looking mess at least!



After dinner we did some gambling for the first time all week. On the last day. It was time to go home. Our kids missed us and we were ready to stop the party lifestyle.
All in all a wonderful time was had. But wow, we might be getting too old for this!! 😉


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