happy friday!

i can't believe i'm saying this, but we take off this evening for ANOTHER weekend away. we've been doing a lot of traveling, but i guess that is what makes life fun - especially in the summertime! we are headed to winthrop tonight to spend the weekend with some friends. we are pitching our tent next to their RV and will spend all of tomorrow on their boat. the good life! we are very excited and are hoping for sunnier skies to the east. we have not been very pleased around here about the colder temperatures.

a few of the things we've been up to this week:

mom's group at the beach on monday (and it just so happened to be our only hot day!)

i signed riley up for swim lessons, so i've been braving the chilly mornings this week and watching on the sidelines. hopefully next week it will feel more like summer and that way all the moms won't have to go dressed in jeans, boots and coats! but it has been quite lovely to spend 30 minutes on the lounge chair each morning by myself, not attending to my little precious.

a family bike ride downtown to our local favorite for dinner

riley's new trick this week: climbing through the dog door to give doc his cookie

a little arts & crafts time that ended w/a very guilty look

and finally a little picnic lunch in riley's room, with baby, of course!

i do have to add that after riley had lunch with her baby, she said, "ok, night-night time" and then asked her baby if she had "poo-poos", nursed, rocked and patted her while saying, "it's ok, it's ok" then laid her baby in bed and suffocated her with a blanket and said, "ready, set, sleep!". mothering at it's finest!

have a wonderful weekend!