My college friends, Kim and Travis Bingham visited us last weekend! We had the tripped planned forever, then they put an offer on a house, thinking it would never be accepted, and it was! Low and behold, they had to get their house on the market within the week. I was so disappointed, thinking that there was no way that they would be able to come. The Binghams are like super-heroes, they busted out their pages of projects within four days. Painting, dry-walling, grouting and whatever else took place in a short amount of time. Besides never ending projects, they also had to parent, Kim and Travis also have 3 children: Riley age 7, Carson age 5 and Ainsley age 2.
What a wild and crazy weekend! 10 people in our cozy, little house made for lots of fun and lots of chaos!
Here Ainsley and Carson are ready to hit Triple Play. We headed out to the indoor water park on Friday. I think everyone had a good time. I have to say, now that I have an eight year old and two almost six year olds, I am kind of lax on the whole parenting thing. I forget that you have to really watch and keep track of a two year old. While Travis and Kim headed up on the slides a couple of times, I really had to focus on keeping Ainsley in sight and safe. :)
Movie time, after a long day. All six of them in one spot!
On Saturday Brayden had his Pine Wood Derby race. Carson was especially excited for this! We had been planning the visit for a long time and talking about going to the race. Carson was amazed that Brayden made his own race car. Imagine the disappointment in his eyes when he saw Brayden HOLDING his pine wood derby car. Kim failed to mention that it would not actually be a car that he got into and drove. Poor Carson! I think he still had a good time at the race, watching all of the boys and the millions of heats.
Brayden's car is the red one that is in 6th place, yep, last. He was a bit heartbroken, which I totally expected. BUT it was the first car he had ever made and his first year racing. Some of the scouts have been doing it for a few years, their cars were quite impressive.
No more old wooden tracks. Our pack bought the state of the art aluminum track which included high-tech software, for the heats and times.
Travis, Kent and Wayne. This picture is horrible, but it's the only one I got of grown ups. :) Kent was in charge of the technical stuff: heats and times.
All the kids sitting at the finish line, they were amazing for hours and hours, watching with a few snack breaks.
Our friends and brothers: Kaiden and Gavin.
Brayden, setting up his car on the starting line.
Not only did we sit through 40 scout cars racing 6 heats each, but the parents and siblings got to race their own cars too. Of course Kent made one, The Wet Banana. I was concerned that the parents may have concerns that the next Cub Master had such a perverted car name, but no one said anything. Paco actually chuckled each time he announced the car. Good times, I was so proud.
After the race, a walk to the park and some trips to Spokane's finest stores, Spokane Discount and White Elephant, we made dinner then headed outside for some Woof-ums!
We borrowed Wayne's sticks, which have a big wooden ball at the end. You lay a rolled out biscuit on the end, roast it and put some yummy pie filling in the tiny bowl. It was scrumptious, but quite time consuming and it required a lot of patience for our little ones!
The smoke was in Brayden's eyes, so he put on the girls's stylish sunglasses, it seemed to help.
What a glorious, exhausting weekend! Thank you to the Bingham family for making the LONG journey to see us! It was a weekend that we won't soon forget!
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