Oh Happy Day...

School's out!!! The B boys have been ready for this day as it is absolutely not fair that the cousins got out of school 6 days before they did. However the last 2 days of school were free dress days and early out and that makes any uniform wearing kid very happy. Even if it's only awarded to them 'cuz the AC went out at school. They don't care. So being the mom of the year that I am, I walked my sweet babies into school with camera in tow and they each only let me snap 1 picture of them in their classroom. And they were absolutely not going to be with their teacher or wearing glasses. I then took the afternoon off from work and picked them up from school as Meredith (Connor's mom) and I had some fun things planned for them. From carline we headed to Braums for celebratory ice cream. There were about 20 SVdP kids there doing the same thing. Very cute to see a several of the big kids wanting Lucas to sit with them. They all poured over the year book together dripping ice cream everywhere. Then off to Lake Atalanta, a local park near a nature spring that that feeds a creek. The clientele of this park is always sketchy and we fit right in as Meredith thrusted a filled coozy in my hand. Between the 2 of us we make one excellent mother. I remembered the nerf guns, boats, walkie talkies, air planes, etc. Meredith brought the snacks, "drinks", duck food and blankets. Together we had everything we needed. They attacked the playground like crazy people. They terrorized the park and shot darts at each other around the young mother in her bikini (at a park, WTH?) with her diaper dressed toddler. They floated their boats down the creek about a hundred times. Lucas was soaked up to his ears in a 6" deep creek. Apparently he keep "falling"... and I was born yesterday. Then we were off to scare the $hit out of feed the ducks and geese. We did try to help a woman rescue of a duck whose leg was caught in fishing string and couldn't use it's leg however, it would let anyone near them so we backed away as not to add a distraction to the rescue. It was an absolutely fabulous start to their summer!

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