Trip To NC

Last week I took a trip to NC to pick up Blaine for the summer and see a bunch of my friends, who I miss very much! :)

Whitney and I stayed with my good friend Stephanie! She was nice enough to let us crash at her place while we were in town. Steph and I had a great time catching up and enjoyed watching the kids play! In this first picture, Devin is front and center...he is such a cute and sweet baby, so adorable!



The next couple of pictures are Duncan and Whitney playing together. They loved playing with my IPOD and Duncan's electronic toy, as well as resting in their jammies every night in their "nest".




NEW BABY CLARA!
My best friend from elementary school, middle, high school, college....pretty much all our lives, has a new baby! She is the second addition to the Engelbrecht family. She was born on May 30th and has been keeping her mom and dad awake ever since :)

Me holding Clara

Me and Christine


Me holding fussy Clara

Even the kids loved the baby and wanted to help take care of her! They did a great job....maybe they are practicing for the future!

Whitney holding Clara...wouldn't she make a cute big sister?


Blaine holding Clara...what a pro!


I loved visiting Christine and all my friends in NC! I just wish we weren't so far away.

Blaine and Whitney at lunch after visiting Christine

Meltdown??

Who is having the meltdown? Me or Whitney?? Probably me! Whitney just goes along in life kind of flitting around like a butterfly! Me? I should be looking out for the next disaster and trying to avert it. No that is JOE and I do NOT listen!

Today, we went to many places, but one of which was Giant (grocery store). Whitney had a pack of SKITTLES candy that I let her have, Joe did not want her to have them. Maybe he could see the disaster that was about to happen, maybe he was saving me from a meltdown, and her from trouble. What happened next is classic 4 year old and classic Whitney. In the produce section, the Skittles ended up ALL on the floor! She had about 3 left!

The fun did not end there! NO, NO, NO! We get a little further, still in the produce section....Joe had left to get something and came back to find me standing there laughing and Whitney pointing her finger at me! Was it me that created the mess of blue on the floor??? Partly. Joe had bought Whitney a blue Mountain Dew. She wanted some, but dropped it. I then opened it. BIG MISTAKE! Everyone knows that you can't open a soft drink after it has been dropped! At that moment, I did not recall that little fact. So, the drink comes out and all over the floor. I have to then find some unassuming store worker to help clean it up!

Eventful, is my life with a 4 year old!

OH, but we did have S'MORES tonight! Whitney loved roasting the marshmallows, smushing them in the graham crackers and chocolate, then EATING them!

I liked it too :)