Twin Sightings

With the boys being "off" from Pre-K this week, Nana and Poppa graciously accepted my (threatening) request to keep them for a day. They had them sleep over at their house Monday night and when I called to check on them, I heard in the background...
Reed: I DON'T WANNA GO HOME!!
Nolan: I DON'T WANT MY MOM TO COME PICK ME UP!!
They must have been loading them up with sugar and lies! Ha, no, I'm sure they were just having a ball.
They took the boys to the Goodloe's school for grandparents day and to see all the Goodloe kiddoes. A few hours into the day, I got the following pictures on my phone from Pete and Charlie. I was a little confused at first, but then figured she ran into them at the park. She said the boys were so excited to see each other and did the "slide train" over and over and over again! So cute! Thanks, Nana and Poppa for keeping the boys and I hope you are getting some well deserved rest.

Super Sleepover Weekend

Thanks to the Goodloe's on Friday, Todd and I got to enjoy a night out with the Tuttle's (sans-kids) at dinner and a comedy show.
Then, on Saturday, we had some neighborhood friends over for dinner and Grant got to spend the night with us. They all kept saying "yea! We're the three brothers!" Since Grant is an only child (for the time being) he was so excited to have "siblings"...even though he kept calling them Sadie and Finn! It was too funny!

Happy Turkeys, Indians, and Puritans...oh my!

This past week the boys got to participate in their first Pre-K Thanksgiving play and feast at school. Nolan was up first on Thursday and he was a Puritan Man in his play. When his character was called he'd get to say "Bang! Bang!" He did great the first two times, but after that, he became "statuesque". He was excited to have me stay for lunch and afterwards, we had a Nolan/Mommie day!


Reed had his play and feast on Friday. He was an Indian Man and when his character was called he got to say "Big and Brave". I didn't get to see much at his play because all the grandparents were standing up in front of me! Oh well, we had lunch together and afterwards, had a Reed/Mommie day. He was so excited for about the first hour singing "Reeeeeeed and Mommie day, reeeeeeed and mommie day!" But after our shopping excursions, he kept saying "when are we going to get Nolan!?!"

This is Miss Erika. Reed loves his teacher and she said he gives her hugs all day long! He's such a little lover boy!

Heart Warming Thanks

The boys were so excited to show me their Thanksgiving turkey feathers they painted. Their teacher asked them what they were thankful for so they could add it to their feathers. Awe, sweet Reed! (I'll be sure to give his teacher that 20$ I promised her to do that for me-haha).

Nolan sure does love his pooch. Todd should have paid Mrs Cindy to get his name on a feather!

Red Top Mountain Camping

Another FIRST for the McLure boys, and family at that, was a 24 hour camping trip at Red Top Mountain State Park. We accompanied the Goodloe's (minus Dawn), Anna, Ricky, 3 of Burke's good buddies and all of their kids. All in all, we had about 7 adults and 14 kids. Out-numbered 2 to 1! Glad the kids didn't figure that out because they may have tied us to a tree covered us with honey!
This was the McLure tent. I'm not sure it was big enough! Ha, the thing was HUGE and could have probably fit the entire campsite.

Leah, Nolan and Mary Martha were sitting by the fire enjoying the warmth.

Saturday, we took a hike (spotted a dead rotting raccoon) set out to find a GeoCache somewhere in the woods. About half way through, half of us turned back and a good thing we did! The others needed to be picked up about an hour or so later because they were still a few miles away! Phew, that was quite a hike.

Here is some of the group doing a little fishing on Allatoona Lake on Sunday. Rick and Ryan were serious fishermen and trying to catch us some grub.

The boys would have rather thrown rocks into the lake, so we walked a good distance away from the fisher-people in the hopes that we would scare the fish their way. No catches today! Oh well, better luck next time.

Mesmerized by wipers

Reed: Mommie, can you turn that thing on that goes across the back, please?
Me: Sure, Reed. But why?
Reed: Oh, there it goes, I really love that.
What? Maybe this kid will be an engineer and learn how things work. Then, he can fix all the stuff in our house that we toss aside when it stops working!

Fun with the G'rents

Thank you, Jammy and Grandy for such a fun, yet short, weekend! Hope you have recovered from the twin-tornado and hopefully Jammy, you'll win some trophies next time! We love ya