Friday, October 11th

Friday was such a fun day - we met up with friends at Catch Air and the kids played hard from about 10:15 - 1:45 p.m.  Three of the four kids fell asleep on the way home, but once there they were revived and dragged Grammie out front to play :-)  Before long, it was time for Jim and I to head out for our date night - we are really very blessed that we often (usually 1x/week, but definitely 1x/two-weeks) are able to get out for a movie or a dinner without the crew... however, every once in a while Grammie and Nana go above and beyond and we have an entire evening out and they put all of the kids to bed.  Thanks, guys, for our awesome full-date-night!

Waverly is such an easy, good baby - always ready to giggle and smile, and always-always ready to chew on her fingers ;-)  Amanda took some turns snuggling her up.  Much like usual, she gets so serious as soon as I point the camera (phone) her way :-p

All of the kids played really well together - at first, they broke off and played in pairs: Victoria + Olivia, Lincoln + Judd, and Scarlett + Julia.

They played more together towards lunchtime, but all sat in their Buddy Groups (lol) when it was time to eat.

Lincoln was befriended by a little girl soon thereafter and I saw him only sporadically until it was time to leave.  He and Judd did spend some time trying to stuff a huge plastic ball into this spinning ride, because...boys.

Kids were playing outside back at home, and I was relishing a quiet spell with the baby.  She fell asleep and was smiling so sweetly in her dreams - just looked so genuinely happy and peaceful.

My love and me :-)

We drove down to Serenbe and had dinner at The Farmhouse - they had switched up their menu (it's all seasonally based and very limited, with usually two or three entree options at most) and were offering some delicious vegetable soup, flat iron steak and it was all amazing, of course.  As a little treat, I had a pumpkin martini which tasted exactly like pumpkin pie - yum!

Jim and I always joke that Serenbe is just too much - too charming, too peaceful, smells too good (they pump that in, right? lol).  Well as we drove from dinner to the stables where the play would be, there was an entire family of deer casually munching grass on the side of the lane.  The sun was setting and when we paused in the road to take a picture of them,  I swear they posed for us.  It's all just too much ;-)

We arrived at the stables just as the sun was fully setting and the stars were appearing on the horizon.  Jim took a wonderful shot of one corner of the stable where we were waiting outside for the doors to open.

The play was titled, "The Sleepy Hollow Experience," and it was an experience!  Very interactive and we moved throughout the stables, following the characters.  I loved it!  We started off in the loft (pictured above).

Towards the end, we wound up outdoors - the play was really great and I'll be excited to check out their next production!