A Family Weekend

Kids camp has come and gone.

I was exhausted by the end of the week.

But I am back.

Back to being a full time stay at home mom.

Back to being a stay at home wife.

Back to sharing my not-so- exciting, but wonderful life with you.

I know I promised I would write about my week, and the challenges I faced with being a mom and having to go to "work". Thats not going to happen today. My mind is waay to tired to write a serious blog right now. I need to get my thoughts in proper order first. So today, I will share my weekend with you.

It has been a while since the Hodgsons have been able to do a family outing. Between weddings, and Andrews work (either with Timbren, or photography) our weekends have been packed full, but not packed full together. 

After an exhausting week, I thought once the weekend rolled around, all I would want to do is rest. That is true, I did wake up on Saturday wanting to stay in my pjs all day and do nothing but cuddle my baby (bah...sadly though she stopped cuddling months ago). But we knew that a weekend with all three of us around is rare, and didn't know when the next time that would happen, so we packed up the car, and headed to Centre Island.

Coral loved the ferry ride.

This was her favorite place to be. Whenever we would put her down she would do a mad dash for the water. There were so many ducks and they were so friendly. Coral gave one of them an animal cracker and the duck took it right out of her hand.

She loved the farm there. She thought the pigs were pretty funny as well as the rooster. In this picture she is "moooooing" like a cow.

Coral had her first experience with rides this weekend. She was quite serious when she first got on the train, but once we started moving she was all giggles.

I wish we would have taken a picture of her on the carousel. She loved it. She waited in line patiently and every time the lion went by she got excited. When it was our turn to go on the ride, we made a mad dash for the lion when we saw no one had taken it yet. She thought it was pretty cool that she got to ride on a lion.

My favorite part of the day was the quadricycle. Andrew and I got to peddle in the back while Coral enjoyed the ride up front. We went as far as we could on the island. It was so beautiful and lots of fun exploring. Coral did really well just sitting there for over an hour.

It was a great day. We spent about six hours on the island, and we didn't even have the chance to do everything that there was to offer. We missed the park and the splash pad, and I would have really loved to rent a canoe (or paddle boat) and explore the island from the water. Coral did so well on the amount of sleep that she got. I was really proud of her. 

And now, there is still no time for rest. My house looks like a bomb went off inside of it. I call it my Coral bomb. Her messes are explosive. Better get cleanin while the baby is sleeping.