The Reinbold Family: August 2013

Monday, August 12, 2013

Pirate's Cove!

This little guy found himself a nice comfy seat where someone else's stuff was. Oops!

Our happy family of 5!

Normally on the weekends, it's just the 4 of us. The way that Ryan and Triston's mother worked out custody, was that during the summer, he would be with us during the week and her on the weekends. Well, "something happened with her car," so she wasn't able to come pick him up this weekend. That's OK though, because we prefer him home with us, and that meant that we could go do something fun as a family!

Saturday was low-key. Ivie and I ran a couple of errands and then later that evening Ryan and I went on a date. We went to a local pub that has the best burgers. After dinner, we went to a local thrift store and did a little clothes shopping for the kids. Triston started school last week, and since he wasn't with us that much, he didn't have a lot of clothes to wear. Especially nicer stuff for school. But now that he's with us ~~almost~~ full time, he definitely needs more clothes! They were having a 99 cent kids clothing sale, so we were able to pick up quite a bit for less than 20 bucks! Thanks to my friend Karla and the thrift store, T should be good for a while. We went to get ice cream after shopping and then we heard tornado sirens, so we went home. Nothing to report, thank goodness. Colorado has just been having some crazy (or maybe it's normal. I'm still new here) weather!

Sunday we headed to Pirate's Cove, a little water park a few miles from our house. It wasn't huge, and it's not terribly expensive, so I would definitely call it a win. I also ran into a friend of mine there so it was a double win!

They had 3 larger slides, and I convinced Ivie to go one one of them with me. We're both claustrophobic, so we stuck to the slower one that was open. Being shot down a tube is not my idea of fun. Thankyaverymuch! She was nervous at first, and made me go first, but I told her not to chicken out. As soon as I got to the bottom and out of the pool, I saw her coming down with a huge grin on her face. Definitely worth the trip right there. Her smiles are priceless.

That evening we grilled out. I made a yummy potato salad, and a tomato cucumber salad and we relaxed for the rest of Sunday!

This morning I woke up to news that my sweet niece was born last night at 11:50 PM! I am so thrilled for my brother and his beautiful wife! They have been through so much in the last month, and this sweet miracle is just what their family needed.