Ice Cream, Tennis Balls, and Taboo

Awwww.....another Sunday. We went with the entire family to church this morning, with a special treat...Autumn sang. Despite her doing a fantastic job, I'm in awe of how comfortable she looked on stage. I just couldn't do it - too scary!!!

The whole gang ate at Jason's deli for lunch - yummm, free ice cream! Brent and Valerie, long time friends of Brett and Autumn, joined us too, Ethan and Preston in tow as well. We all retired to the house afterward to hang out and chill for a bit. Brett, Betty (Brett's mom) and I finished up the Scrabble game that we'd started the night before. When we left the table, Brett was up by 3 points. He took a peek at my letters, and after seeing that I had all sorts of points in my hand, wasn't anxious to return to the game. He even tried to tell us that "if you walk away from the table, the game is over"....whatever. So, we played out the game, and while Betty went out first, we had to surrender our letters to her, and Brett ended up winning by TWO points. It was a good thing though, actually, because if he hadn't, we probably wouldn't ever hear the end of it. :)

We took the kids to the park to play, while Brett and I stole away Loralyn for a little while for some "formal" pictures. I won't be sharing any of those right now, Autumn wants to keep them as a surprise, but I will tell you that we had a great time, and she's so stinking adorable, that the pictures turned out great.

After we had chased her around the park and were certain that we'd gotten a few keepers, Ethan and Preston were there, and it was too hard not to grab a couple super cute shots of them too! Here are my favs!



We had found a tennis ball at the park, and Brett was putting his old pitching skills to use. The kids were in awe of how high the ball would go up....watching his every move. Yeah, Brett didn't enjoy this one bit. :)





After the park, we came back to the house, ate some sandwiches, and watched the kids have a good ole time with each other. One of the world series games was on, so we had to keep up what was going on with that, all the while, the kids were taking turns 'riding horsie' on the adults legs.

When everyone else had taken off, Brett and I started up a game of Taboo. His parents came in and joined us, and a serious undertaking of laughs ensued. One that kept us laughing for a while....

Clue: You might read when you can't do this.
Guess: SPELL!!
Answer: (was trying to get the word SLEEP out of that for the answer) Insomnia

Yeah, it was that kind of night. :)