The moment that Susan has been looking forward to has arrived. Tyler’s new drums came this weekend and I got them together before he got here today. This morning before Tyler got here I caught her in his room playing them (I had guessed that would happen). When he got here he was so excited. Susan’s parents are coming this weekend and he said that they would love to hear him play so he has been practicing for them.
Susan had to go to a club house dinner for her work to celebrate service awards. The kids and I decided to have octopus hot dogs and mac & cheese. These are two of Susan’s favorites so we hope she enjoyed her fancy dinner without us 
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OK, technically this isn't from this weekend, but Labor Day weekend. It was just too cute not to share. The dogs are not allowed on the bed normally so it took several tries to get Maggie to realize Paul was OK w it. We have one blurry pic w Barton on there too...only after I staged it though.
On our way to the Dog Splash! 5 very excited heads in that back seat!
Jake was so excited to take a running leap off the deck into the water chasing the ball Paul brought. Katie and Maggie were much more cautious.
Tyler going down the slide. Notice the similarity to Jake?
ZONKED! All of the dogs were so tired after the pool. Katie and Maggie just climbed in the car to lay down. Jake tried to fight it, but this was only 10 minutes into the ride home.
Sunday morning the kids and dogs let us sleep until 7am! Might be a record in our house. We played around with the kids in our bed for awhile, then Paul got them breakfast and cartoons. I managed to get away with reading in bed until 7:45am! So when Anna asked to play the game Trouble at 8am on a Sunday, how do you say no?? Well, if I had known how Paul would respond, I might have waited until I had a little more caffeine. He is RUTHLESS! It literally took Tyler about 20 turns to get a man out to start the game. Then 2 turns later Paul landed on him, sending him back to home. Same to me and Anna. It was so dang funny, I started to take pictures. Tyler just sat under the table w the dogs until his turn came around, then he would take his turn and slide back under the table. The video of the game winning move is SO funny. I have asked Paul to post it so we will see if it is edited at all. Meanwhile, check out these pictures!
Its 7:40pm and we are all lying on the couch wiped OUT. Here is a rundown of our day:
4:50am–alarm goes off
5:50am–leave house w kids and Paul
6:30am–triathlon training w Team in Training heroes @ Belews lake (what the kids call Quiet Lake b/c when we go at dark o’clock they have to be quiet since all of the locals are asleep.) We swam 1 mile, they road 4 miles and ran 1 mile. I ran 3 miles after the swim instead. Tyler found 2 more clams to bring home to join Clammy, the clam he found at Quiet Lake 2 weeks ago. Yes it is still alive and lives in his trash can. Did I tell you a nuc. power plant drains into this lake?
8:45am–left the lake, McDonalds for breakfast, drove home
10am–it takes all 4 of us three attempts to get Barton in to the cat carrier. Bluesy sat in the driver’s seat of my car with a dog leash on him. I take the cats to the vet for their check up. They are fine, Paul and I are $200 poorer.
Noon–home, kids play outside, Paul and I whirlwind clean, give them lunch and clean out my car.
1pm–pile in the Fit. Yes, 300 pounds of dog in the back, 2 kids in their car seats in the back, then Paul and I in the front.
1:30pm–return home, we forgot a wallet; back on the road everyone naps, except poor Paul.
2:30pm–arrive in Burlington for the Dog Splash, the dogs and people can swim in the Aquatics Center pool. It was CRAZY FUN until Maggie and Jake’s toe nails started bleeding from climbing out of the pool.
4pm–leave pool with kids in dry clothes and dogs w bloody feet.
5pm–arrive home, drop off dogs and fix dog feet to stop bleeding. Leave again for dinner
Losing track of time–Ate dinner at Mellow Mushroom. Natty Greene’s Golden Ale and Ceasar Salad pizza is my new favorite food.
7pm–home, pass out on the couch
We will ALL sleep well tonight. HOPEFULLY kids and dogs will sleep past 6am….
Anna was very excited about wearing this outfit that Granny bought her. Jason brought the kids over special to pick up this outfit the night before school started.
CHEESE!
Anna was most looking forward to showing Tyler around and helping him ride the bus.
Tyler was most looking forward to riding the bus. Here he would not even stop to get his pic taken.
Tyler clearly had enough of the picture taking.
Sorry for not updating sooner, thanks for the prompt, Biz.
Paul began assembling the set shortly after the kids boarded the bus Friday at 6:50am. About an hour later the news was grim–the base drum frame thingy had a crack. Long story short, we had to ship it back. What we SHOULD have taken pictures of for entertaining our blog readers is us REPACKAGING the drums in the original packing materials. Yikes. We only forgot 2 pieces: a package of nuts and bolts and the return invoice thing. Minor details, eh?
I imagine that it will be a couple weeks now between the exchange happening (length of time could vary depending on how important those missing pieces are to the drum company), the shipping back to us, then waiting for the kids to return to Robin’s to it can be assembled. We will keep you posted.
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