Memorial Day Weekend

This holiday weekend was busy with fun memories!   I took ice cream cone cupcakes to school for Noah's class' May birthday celebration on Friday.  The kids, of course, licked off all the icing and threw the rest away.  :}

Then, on the spur of the moment, we invited a handful of good friends over to play in the water with us after school.  It was a wonderful afternoon and made the heat much more bearable. :)  Noah and Renzo thoroughly enjoyed the boy vs. girl water gun fights. 

 Saturday, Noah scored three runs at his t-ball game and even fielded a ball and then tagged the runner out!  He gets stronger and more with it with every week!  Josh, Anna, and I melted in the 100 degree heat until they finally won the game.  So far his team is undefeated. :)  He is so proud of each win.

Sunday Josh taught in our small group at church and then we jetted down to Huntsville to see my sister and her family while they were at my parents.  We'd no sooner pulled in the driveway down there than the kids were stripping down to swimsuits to join Brooklyn and Natalie in the pool.  

And to my amazement, Noah (who is very skittish about putting his face in the water) was swimming under the water under Brooklyn's tutelage and eager example!  He was so emboldened by her company and his successful face dunks.  He and Brooklyn played for hours in the pool both days we were there.  Many stunts ensued.

Then we broke out the season's first juicy watermelon.

 

 "Yum!" did not do it justice on this hot, hot Memorial Day. 

 

We're so worn out from this weekend, that I do believe I am going to let Noah play hooky from school tomorrow.  And then he's only got 1 1/2 days left before summer officially begins!