Fort, Picnic and Peanut Butter Cookies

For Christmas, we gave our two girls and their husbands a coupon.
When giving this coupon, we told them we wanted to invest in their marriages and this is one way we came up with to do that on very practical terms.

The coupon gives them a weekend away once every quarter of 2011.
Mindi and Seth's anniversary was this week, so they cashed in their first one this weekend.

We went over on Friday afternoon and spent the evening and all day today (Saturday).
The car seemed really quiet on the drive home ;-)

Here are some pictures of our time over there.

Last night I suggested to Jaz that we build a fort with blankets over the couch.
She glommed onto that immediately and ran to get all her blankets. Thankfully she had several really big ones. We brought chairs in from the dining room and stretched the blankets between the chairs and the couch. It was fun. I even crawled under there for awhile to see what it was like - and to scare them! That's just too much fun!


Underneath the tent/fort






Jaz and Nate underneath






From above






Nate enjoying it all to himself











Jamma's on and watchin' a movie before bed










Jazmyn had the idea today to have a picnic. So she got her blanket, spread it out, then went upstairs to the playroom and got the bin with plastic food in it....spread it out and the little ones had a ball pretending. She even changed her clothes to fit the occassion.






Later, Nate found a pillowcase and climbed into it. He also tried running in it....that didn't go to well, as you can imagine!



















She knew the camera was aimed at her!









This afternoon Jazmyn and I mixed up some peanut butter cookies.
Nate got up from his nap and wanted to help - that didn't last long. I called in a rather high decibal voice for the assistance of my life partner to come and remove said little boy from the area in which bite size morsels were being created. He did so, and the sweet treats were made without mishap...well almost, but we'll spare you that story. We did have to confess to the parental units once they arrived home!


We survived!






So, that was our weekend so far.
We may be allowed to watch them again! LOL