girls just wanna have fun
After almost a year of planning, re-planning, and nearly not following through we finally got together with my friend, Tricia, and her 2 girls. Only 50 miles separate us, but we couldn’t manage just one little meet-up this whole time…until now! The ladies arrived on Friday afternoon and stayed until Sunday. We decided to spend Friday shopping and ate at the Silver Diner for dinner (it’s totally a kids’ place). It was a bit stressful for the younglings to be with each other but not really get to play, so all of Saturday morning was their time to run amok and get all their sillies out. Around lunchtime we headed out to Fuddrucker’s and then walked around downtown Silver Spring for a while. As a treat (actually a bribe) we got the girls some cupcakes from Cakelove. They had to behave for a teensy while longer in order to get their cupcakes. We then went to Ikea and let the girls go to the kids’ zone so we could shop for an hour. The last bit of the day was what we had been planning for ages: a photo shoot at the laundromat. The deal was that if they allowed us to take some fun pictures of them, then they could finally get their cupcakes. Boy, did we have such fun and got lots o’ freaky stares in the process, too!! We also did a quick photo shoot on Sunday morning, but I haven’t gotten to those yet. I’ll try to post those tomorrow.
My sweet Mimi.
Annie was so cute.
Thumb wreslting, anyone?
Miss Elena. The girls were in awe of her.
Elissa is bigger than my both my girls even though she’s 1 year younger than Annie and only 7 months older than Mimi.
Had to include this one, too, since it was their bribe:
May 19th, 20087:13 pm at
Very cute Jen! I love the one with Miss Mimi in the dryer and Miss Elena is a natural, very photogenic! I love the cute plaid matching outfits too. Can’t wait to see the rest. See you soon and thanks for leaving me alone with Matt and Mike on friday who by the way both had ribs (pewwie)!!!
May 19th, 20087:19 pm at
thanks, tt! you know you loved those matches of fart tennis with the boys on friday night:)
May 19th, 20087:35 pm at
OMG (Oh. My. Gastroentritis.) Fart tennis? I will gladly take the burping contests any day.
Those pictures are so cute (I actually caught them first on the flickr page)! I love the laundry basket idea! Maybe I can convince Jimmy to do that for his senior pictures? right…..
May 19th, 20087:44 pm at
Yes, those boys really pride themselves on the gases that come out their hineys. Mike made the loudest noise the other night right after getting in bed. I yelled in (had to wait at least 10 minutes before entering the room) that he must be quite proud of himself that one. Of couse, he agreed with a robust laugh.
ha, ha! I think Jimmy would look adorable sitting in one of the dryers.
Thanks, Sara!
May 22nd, 200811:26 pm at
So funny. My boys in 2nd period played fart tennis everyday. I rarely went near them. (Glad they are done with school now) The pictures are so gorgeous and I love that they all match. Love it love it love it!!
May 23rd, 20083:11 am at
Oh, you must have loved being in that room. Thanks for your comments. I really love the pictures, too. I want to do something fun with them to display around my “new” home. Just haven’t figured out what yet.