A night at the movies!

We were going to go to the new water park in Big Spring, TX on Sunday after church...but the other families we were going to go with had to cancel. Carter has been mentioning "Cars 2" alot lately, and since it was showing at the drive in we decided to go! Thankfully Carter had taken a REALLY LATE nap that evening so it worked out well for her to be up late!Of course, my little cheeser, front and present with a big grin! She was excited, although i'm sure she didn't quite grasp the concept until the movie started, we kept trying to explain that we were going to wath the movie on the "BIG" TV!!! This was John's first time at a drive in theater too so everyone was happy and excited to be there!We popped kettle corn before we left, grabbed a few treats at the gas station...and still ended up having to buy an ICEE at the concessions....who can resist it when it's 9pm and 87 degrees outside???!!!Just waiting for the movie to start getting comfy, and sippin that ICEE!Oh, yes we did get a hot dog to share because I realized i'd forgotten to feed my child before we left, so here we are waiting in the concessions diner waiting for Carter's "hog gog"!Who ever decided to put 4 playgrounds (one under every screen and one at concessions) was a genius! Carter loved playing here, she's been asking to go slide for such a long time but it's always SOOO hot, and by the time it cools off it's bed time...she was so brave and finally.....Goes up the stairs all by herself..... sits down and gets ready by herself....Starts off without a shove.....and.....Without hesitation zooms to the bottom of the slide where she.....Does her version of a gymnastics landing and proclaims "TADA I FICK IT!" I don't think it sank in my telling her over and over that she "DID IT" not "FIXED IT" was the appropriate exclamationAll in all it was a fun adventure! The movie was cute as are most Disney/Pixar creations....it just doesn't top the first Cars, but it was still a good addition! And note...of course the jammies that were selected for the adventure...."Teee-moe-mell"! Oh how I love this silly two year olds mispronounced words!!!

Carter sat and watched most of the movie but got silly punch drunk towards the end, and couldn't sit still, it was also too exciting to have access to all of the knobs and buttons, and things of such that are in the front seats, all in all I think the horn got honked twice, the radio got turned off about five times, and she spent a good portion of the movie with her head out the sun roof or the window like a little puppy!

Owen ate a bottle, fussed for a few minutes then ZONKED, he slept in the back seat through the whole movie!!! What a good little champ!!!

I love that we've always taken our kids with us pretty much everwhere since they've been born. It can be quite the challenge, and sometimes ends up very badly with flared tempers, tears and exhaustion....BUT it's all in the name of family time, something that's very precious to us...John's work schedule allows for VERY LITTLE time together, we try to make it quality time, but so much of it gets eaten up by daily routine....sleeping, eating, bathing...etc....so we're SO thankful that we were able to spend this time together!!!