Weekend Roundup: Last Summer Weekend

 We kicked out last weekend into full swing on Friday! David's grandparents drove all the way up from Johnson City, TN to spend a few days with his parents. So Tensley and I took advantage of spending the afternoon with them before dinner that evening with the rest of the family. 

We met my PawPaw, Uncle Mark, Great-Grandma (Grandma) and Great-Grandpa (Grandpa) at a local restaurant called Pete's Deli for lunch. PawPaw would have rather come to Salem so his parent's could have had Mac N Bobs for lunch, however Tensley was dining to take Grandma and Grandpa to her beloved Sweet Frog. It didn't take much for her to convince PawPaw that ice cream was a good idea! ;) 

PawPaw photobombing in the back!

                                  She was a little over excited that they didn't have the small cups out. She thought she was HOT STUFF getting a BIG CUP. No worries we didn't fill it full. Small scoops of 3 different flavors (pomegranate, chocolate, and vanilla all topped with chocolate chips, pop rocks and sour gummy worms). I choose pomegranate, chocolate, and cake batter with a few chocolate chips and granola. And Non for Everely Boswell! 

After we finished our Sweet Frog we went to the local park near my in-laws house for about 20-30  minutes. Allowing Tensley to run off some of her energy. She truly enjoyed playing with Uncle Mark, she has missed him dearly. He had been at Camp all summer long, he left almost 2 weeks after Everley was born and just got into town 2 weeks ago. The girls have been loving on some Uncle Mark!! 

Hensley helped PawPaw make a Strawberry cake for desert that evening. She was extremely excited to get to do this with him. Typically she only bakes with Grammy, so she was pretty impressed that PawPaw knew how to make a cake! haha.

     Late that evening Roni and Brayden came by for a visit too. So both grandkids helped PawPaw icing the cake. They did a pretty good job for the most part. I was super impressed with how long they stayed over there icing away.

After dinner Grammy and Roni took both kiddos to the town center to watch the movie Planes! It was a huge hit for both kids, even though said it was really chilly outside. Tensley ended up coming back with ketchup in her hair and on her face, proves she at least had a great hotdog!!

Cutest Couple, 67 years of marriage! 

                        We loved having Grandma and Grandpa up for a visit and we praise God for bringing them to VA safely. Saturday morning they left semi-early off to VA Beach area to visit Dennis' brother Ronnie. We look forward to seeing them again soon when they stop back by on their way home!

Saturday we did some home projects and continue to get all ready for school. That evening we met up with some friends from church to attend the Shelor Motor Mile Speedway Race. This was a first for our entire family. We had a lot of fun and Tensley truly enjoyed spending time with her friends Kolton, Kerrigan, Daniel and Cole. They watched some of the race inside, then played outside, played inside again, then all indulged in some ice cream before heading home.
Both of our girls are crazy and stayed awake the entire drive home, which was close to an hour. We got home eat 10:30 and they were both wide awake! They are nothing holding up for late summer bed times hardcore!

After church on Sunday we came home for lunch before running to the mall area for last minute things. We grabbed Tensley 2 paris of shoes from Rack Room and then groceries for the week.  While  David and I prepared a family picnic Tensley was playing teacher with all of her students. Everley was beginning to get fussy, so we plopped her in the jumbo and told her to join the class. 

Tensley said she interrupted her a lot and that she didn't earn all of her m&ms that day. Oops. Better luck next time Everley!

Last Summer picnic! 

Wearing sissy's headband, looking all big, beautiful and bohemian. 

It started raining right as we finished up eating dinner, so Tensley was unable to play at the park. So we decided to drive area looking for houses/land for sale in our area (one of my favorite things to do).  We found my dream home up this private back road we stumbled upon, I literally yelled "David Shut Up, Look at that house," He replied with "Lauren it's your dream house," Tensley stated "Mom! We don't say shut up! Oh My goodness I love that house!!"
We were all bummed when we realized the for sale sign we saw at the bottom of the road wasn't for this house in particular. I told David to knock on the door asking the owners if they would sell it, he said no. Though he did tell me to knock on the door asking for their builders information.

That evening we came home to prepare for our new normal bedtime and evening routines for before school in the morning. Tensley only cared about one thing and one thing alone her brand new clock alarm radio. We plugged it in, set it on the approved station (We love Spirit FM), set the alarm, and learned all the rules that allows for having a radio in our room.
Just like that it was time for bed and to prepare ourselves for the first day of school!