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My sister and her household came visiting for the weekend. Here’s a recap of our very cousin weekend!
A Very Cousin Weekend Started on Friday!
We attempt to go to one another’s homes at the least every year, hopefully extra. I want we had been nearer than 4.5 hours aside.
My sister and her fam drive up after college on Friday and arrived simply in time for bedtime on Friday evening. After the youngsters ran means quite a lot of laps round lounge, they settled into some books. When the little ones had been asleep, the grown ups had Old Fashioneds utilizing the next!
Bittermilk makes so many superior cocktail mixes, and I discovered this one at Bottle House on the town.
Saturday is for Sisters
The males made golf plans for Sunday, so Saturday was for sisters! Laura and I walked to ACAC to hit up the heated vinyasa class collectively, after which took our time coming again house.
First cease was the farmer’s market the place she purchased some Great Harvest gluten-exclusion bread, after which we went to Corner Juice for probably the most wonderful in a single day oats / chia pudding combo and avocado toast! Corner Juice is likely one of the finest wholesome lunch spots on the downtown mall.
Lunch Salads
Meanwhile, the youngsters had a blast taking part in with each stuffed animal in the home!
We made Rotisserie hen salads with my favourite blue cheese – spiced pecan – orange marmalade dressing for lunch.
Blue Ridge Mountain Maze
Our afternoon was spent on the Blue Ridge Mountain Maze!
We had completely PERFECT climate all weekend – heat and delicate!
The children had a lot enjoyable darting between the youngsters’s actions. The slide was an enormous hit!
Thomas even went for the problem!
The Corn Maze
And then it was time to sort out the maze. I made plenty of maze + Mazen jokes!
The signal mentioned it’d take us about 45 minutes, however fortunately (as a result of it was fairly scorching out) we completed in about 20. The maze was greater than we anticipated and tremendous enjoyable!! Mazen had performed it as soon as earlier than and he guided us a bit. This was good as a result of Avery and Birch wouldn’t have lasted 45 minutes!
THE END!
We had refreshments and listened to a princess sing-along earlier than heading to dinner.
Pro Re Nata
We had dinner midway house at Pre Re Nata Brewery. It was crowded, however PRN is so large that we didn’t have bother discovering a desk.
The playground – small as it’s – was an enormous hit.
So was our pizza and wing dinner!
The children had baths and we referred to as it an evening on the sofa.
Sunday Breakfast
Toast and smoothies for all!
As it was golf day, the fellows acquired prepared for his or her tee time and we took the youngsters to Greer Elementary’s playground for a bit.
The “elevator” was a giant hit, particularly for Birch who acquired courageous sufficient to attempt it.
Lunch at Brazos
After the playground, we hit up Brazos for lunch!
Followed by plenty of IX park taking part in…. (I have no idea what we might have performed if it rained all weekend!)
Back at house, we waited for the dads.
Golf was the spotlight of their weekend!
Untimely soccer playoffs
Unfortunately our soccer staff had our playoffs sport proper in the midst of L+M go to. Since Matt performed soccer at Davidson, we nearly registered him for the staff to hitch us, however as a result of the truth that the sport was scheduled for 5pm and we had 4 children, we determined that wouldn’t be the neatest determination. Thomas stayed house and grilled out for the group whereas I went to the sport as a result of the truth that if I missed as considered one of our solely three girls I’d have abandoned our staff to play lady down on the sector with 10 gamers.
I had a good time, though we misplaced in the long run.
After the sport I joined the group for burgers, salad, and vino.
Monday Goodbyes
Larbs and I beloved the chia pudding at Corner Juice a lot we made our personal! This combine was one can of full-fat coconut milk, 1/4 cup plus 3 tbsp chia seeds, a sprinkle of cinnamon, a tsp of vanilla, and three tbsp maple syrup. It was so good!
Served in glasses with fruit, lavender jam, and almond butter.
Goodbye cousins, please come again quickly!
Birch cried once they left. They performed so laborious collectively!
