Lunch with Les

On Monday it was back to work like normal. Nicole took the kids to the Children’s Museum during the day and it looks like they had a great time. Our softball game was cancelled due to all the rain so I stayed home in the evening with with boys while Nicole went out and did some shopping with her sister. The kids rode their bikes for a while and then Maddox came up to our house to play. Soon we went down to his house so they could all play on his swing set. Storms started to roll in so we hurried home before the downpour. It rained so much that we had a river flowing in our backyard down to the creek. Some neighbors posted on our Facebook page that their basements had water and their backyards were flooded.

On Tuesday it was another day at work, then I came home to grill some chicken wings. The wings turned out great! After dinner we took a walk/bike ride up to the BP so I could cash in my scratch offs from Father’s Day and let the boys pick out a candy. They picked a sour apple spray 😣. They thought they were awesome riding their bikes, then stopping and doing a couple sprays and then biking some more. They made all our neighbors try it too. It was nice to enjoy a break in the rain!

Today, Wednesday, I was off work while Nicole attended a training for school. In the morning we played around the house and did some more of Parker’s iron man LEGO kit. For lunch we were going to meet a good friend, Les, at Pies and Pints downtown, but forgot that there was a Red’s game and the traffic was terrible. We decided to meet at Bdubs in Newport instead. Parker and Zac loved hanging out with Les. We were definitely loooong overdue to hangout. I always tell people that working at ADP wasn’t for me, but the friendships that I made while I was there was definitely worth the 4 years, and Les is one of those great friendships. Josh Burnes is the other great friendship and he was definitely missed at our lunch. (There are a few other good friendships from ADP as well, but those will be for another post) Josh, Les, and I have had a group message chat going since before we all parted ways at ADP over 5 years ago; by far the longest group message I’ve ever been in! Parker was amazed at the fact that Les fed him a bottle when he was just a few months old and laughed when I showed him the picture. It was a great time catching up over some Bdubs.

The boys had gymnastics tonight and I was able to mow some of the grass during the brief break we had from the rain. Then another downpour tonight 😩. Time to get in the hot tub and relax after a great day off from work!