Wow…I have a ton of updating to do…..

FRIDAY – my day off, the start of our vacation!   YEAH!   We slept in a little.  Hubby took my blazer and Josh’s car to the shop to get worked on.  Josh needed new brakes on his car.  Then we packed up and headed to Alexandria, MN.  Luckily Josh’s child support came and we stop at St Cloud on the way to buy him some clothes for school.  We went to Plato’s Closet, which is a used store that sells Teen clothes.  He was able to get alot of nice clothes in the brands he wanted and a price I could afford.  So he spent about 150.00 on school clothes.  We got to the resort in ALexandria around 5:00.  We had some supper and then hit the water park for the rest of the night.  We headed back to the room around 9:00 and played a game with Tommy and Erik.  Then it was trying to get Tommy to go to sleep…that was interesting!  The older two boys rented a movie and hubby, Tommy and I went to sleep.

SATURDAY – We got up and got ready for the day and went to the resorts petting zoo.   The kids loved it.  Tommy got head butted by a goat, but was fine.  After the petting Zoo we went into town and ate at Perkins.   After eating we went to try and get Tommy to take a nap.  He had fallen alseep on the way back to the resort.  The nap was a bust and then we decided to go outside and play for a while.  Hubby and the boys played frisbee and Tommy and I played in the sand.   Once we were done we headed back to the room and got ready to go swimming again.  Hubby took the boysnad I spent a few mintues sewing.  Then I joined them at the water park.  We stayed playing in the water for about 3 hours.    Then back to the room and we prdered room service and played Catch Phrase with the older boys.   Tommy actually feel asleep pretty well, but woke up in the middle of the night.   He has for a drink of water, which I gave him.  THen I told him to crawl back up to his pillow, he went the wrong way and fell right off the bed and hit is head on the night stand!  He was screaming…in the middle of crying he says “I want circle cheese!”  I tell him I don’t ahve any and he cries more and more…then I tell him to lay down in the bed.  He says “I want my other bed!”   I tell him we will go home tomorrow.  He cries nad cries.    He has a hard time with being away from home.  He would ask every day numerous times if we could go home yet.  But this was better than it has been in the past. 

SUNDAY – we all slept in until 10:00…WOW that is late!  We had to check out by noon.  We headed back to the cities and stopped at Once Upon  child in Maplegrove to buy some clothes ofr Tommy for school.  This is a used ctore for children’s clothing.   I spent about $50.00 for him and gota brand new pair of winter boots!    Tommy fell asleep so we drove all the way home to go eat.  We ate at Applebees and then came home!    Our vacation was over…….and was alot of fun.   Erik was picked up at 7:00 to go to live at his mother’s for the school year.  So it was a sad evening for my hubby and he took Tommy outside and played with him all evening. 

Our Summer is offically over and school starts for Josh on Thursday!   Tommy doesn’t start preschool until after Labor Day!    I will share pics from the vacation later!