Misc.

Some other stuff that's been going on chez Vesneski...

1) In honor of the Opening Ceremonies last Friday, Peyton and Sonja participated in a Toddler Olympics at my friend Pam's house. It was adorable. She had the theme music playing and pictures of the olympic rings posted around the room. There were 5 different events--long jump, shot put (using balled-up tin foil), javelin (throwing extra-long straws into a bucket), gymnastics (somersaults) and kickball (sitting in a circle and kicking a ball to each other). Then, at the end, she had a medal ceremony, complete with construction paper gold medals. All 10 kids were winners!


My friend Christine and her daughter Emma doing the shot put


Christine and her other daughter Sammy doing the javelin


All lined up for the medal ceremony

2) Last Saturday we went to a surprise 60th birthday party for Brad's aunt Barbara. She was definitely surprised...especially considering her birthday isn't for another 4 weeks! But what a gala it was. Her 3 sons rented out a banquet hall and had it catered and had a DJ, a cake, etc. It was a great time, but perhaps the person who had the best time was Sonja. She danced everyone under the table. It was a riot. Peyton mostly played with his cars and his 2nd cousin Brendon. But the best part of the night for me was before the party when I was just about finished getting all dressed up and ready to go. I went into Peyton's room to get him out of a time-out and he saw me all dressed up and, completely forgetting that he was in time-out, blurted out, "Ooooooh, that's a pretty mommy right there!" It melted my heart. :)


Enjoying a rare moment to ourselves


Enjoying a dance with my father-in-law


Brad's grandparents


A very cute picture of my sister-in-law, Sunday


Sonja dancin' it up (she's a tough one to pin down on the dance floor!)


The guest of honor and all the kiddos

3) And last but not least...Brad and I get almost an entire weekend to ourselves this weekend...but I'll write more about that later. :)

--C.