Our Weekend

We had a great time in North Carolina last weekend! Sorry I'm a week late posting; but with traveling, seeing parents in Louisville, and a state tennis tournament, here it is Saturday already!!
The first big surprise was that it only took 7 hours instead of 9 to get there. And our boys traveled great. Noah was just disappointed there were only TWO big tunnels in West Virginia! We stayed with our good friends, the Currys, all weekend which was a blast! Noah and their son, Ethan, had so much fun together, and it only took them 3 days to really start fighting over the ONE prized toy (Lightning McQueen). Tucker spent most of his time trying to tackle their dogs, and they avoided him at all cost!! So after being up with Tucker for half the night Thursday with some wheezing thing going on and him wanting to play with a ball at 2 a.m., we started our time pretty tired, but we fought through.
My nephew from MS played in the south regional soccer tournament in Raleigh while we were there so we got to see him play in a couple of games. What a treat!!! The Martins(as already posted on their blog) came down to see us Friday morning which was such a treat for us! It was amazing to see our kids running around together at the park and playing at the table at Red Robin. Crazy what can happen in four years!! Then Matt left with a friend from Christ Covenant and went to Charleston, SC for some guy time with seafood, BBQ, and lots of laughter. I stayed with the boys in Raleigh and was able to see some youth from Christ Covenant and hang out with the Perdue Clan, small group friends for CCC, on Saturday. Church was amazing on Sunday, not just seeing people but hearing the Word broken well and clear. We still feel like that body is our church family. We had coffee with the pastor and his wife; good time just dialoguing about ministry and life. One of our youth offered to keep our boys for Matt and I to go out Sunday night. What a thought--on vacation with kids and going on a date!! We went to our favortie Raleigh restaurant-Porter's-downtown by NCState. Monday we went to a pool and enjoyed the day just hanging out before traveling back on Tuesday.
It's hard to describe vacations these days as relaxing with the four of us, but it was an adventurous breath of fresh air which was much needed and a super duper BLAST!!!