We had a busy weekend of fun. As it was (extremely) hot we either hit the outdoors early or were inside (with the exception of a water pad visit). We went to the park, jump and shout, water pad, mall playground, Costco for smoothies, shoe shopping, San Tan mall playground and some ice cream. Everyone was good and worn out by tonight!

Jump and Shout and bubbles (boys are in red).

Mostly I would like our boys to stay out of Jail, or any other type of involuntary seclusion. But that does not extend to us, and as of now (and for the foreseeable future) Adam is in his own private jail cell. I don't think he loves it at the moment but he is a bit to young to be on his own at night.

Our intrepid adventurer and his cell.

Needless to say the night last night did not go well, sleeping on the floor was not in Adam's gameplan. So today we went and played our trump card, JEN. She found that you could get a "tent" for the crib and at 10:30pm Adam went down for the night in his indoor tent, unable to escape his newly reinforced crib. Mom and Dad rejoiced.

Around this time a month ago our friend Sarah in NH was getting ready to get married and borrowed Jen for a week. Everything went great and Ms. Sarah is now a Mrs. so congrats to that. Jen enjoyed her time in the cool weather while we roasted. The most important part of the trip was bringing back some good beer from NH for Dad. A day at home and then Jen went to Detroit for work, again the best part was bringing back some Bell's Expedition Stout.

After that, well, not a lot happened for a while. Then the most important weekend in 4 years happened. Grandma and Grandpa watched the boys for Labor day weekend and we went to Vegas! Mad props to my folks for that, we didn't even leave them with a car capable of carrying the kids (the van's ac litterally broke on the way to bring the kids home for them to watch). It was the first weekend away since Nick was born!

While we were in Vegas we found out that my bro had a tumor in his brain so that was a lot of a bit of bummer. He has since gone through surgery which they removed the tumor (through his nose!) and doing good. Not out of ICU yet but still doing well for the situation.

So sorry for the lack of updates, sometimes it happens. Nick and Dad are going to MN in the middle of October. We are sure to have Carbone's and see Nickelodian land and hopefully some family (in that order, sorry). I will upload some pictures tomorrow as well.