church picnic

we almost missed the church picnic because i had it in my head that we didn't have plans for the weekend - that will teach me to actually look at the calendar first before answering matt next time... he had taken madelyn and mason to the driving range about an hour before the picnic so i had to call them to hurry home when they were done.

it was a very nice event with face painting, inflatables, balloon animals, snow cones, a band, burgers and hot dogs, artists and beach volleyball. the only negative was that it was fairly hot. but not too bad.

madelyn getting a pink and red butterfly on her arm (versus her face)

madelyn was the only one that would do this bungy cord style race (even though mason was the one who begged to try it)

here is a little more of madelyn 'winning' her race.

well, there was one more negative - i was pretty sure that i had the stomach bug the kids had. it was just a hunch so we went anyway. when it came time to eat our burger/hot dog dinner i was feeling pretty lousy and questioning why i had brought up going in the first place. (oh yea, because madelyn had been asking to go everyday since seeing the tent set up at church last week.)

i didn't eat much and quickly realized that i needed to get home - soon. we had told the kids that they could have snow cones so we stayed just long enough for them to eat (or drop) them before making a bee-line for the van.

i was going to tell matt to get manning out when we got home because i was going to have to run to the bathroom but i was afraid to open my mouth. as we turned into the neighborhood i called out for matt to stop the car. i will spare you the details but the party at the clubhouse could probably see everything and madelyn and mason had about a hundred questions for me when i got back in the car! i begged matt to answer them so i wouldn't have to talk about it.

awful, just awful. i did feel a little better though. and that is why i had to watch the balloons in my pjs and towel head in front of the neighbors. love.