Bouncing until Goodbye

The week after Jason got home was our last week to spend with the Hollender's and it was hard to see them go but we definitely had a blast the last week!

Patti and I spent the last year with one of our husbands being gone at almost all times...I think the boys were both home together for just a few weeks total.

One night that week Patti and I went out for a movie and coffee while the boys watched the kids and busted out the bouncy castle. We bought the bouncy castle for Riley's party and had planned to surprise her with it...however she found the box and the surprise was over!

We had dinner together several nights that week and that Saturday Braden came over to play all day so they could get their house all clean. Jason had gone to Lake Tahoe for the day to "try" snowboarding with his squadron so I had the kids all day and let them just play and bounce all day!

We made a fort on the couch and they had lots of fun crawling through it!

Then came time to play dress up...notice how Braden stayed as far away as possible and tried to read a book..sorry buddy!

First we had Belle...

then we had a rockin' Tinkerbell!

To wind the kids down before lunch they snuggled on the couch and watched some Thomas the Train!

Then their buddy Will came over to play!

Nicki and I got silly and tried on Riley's wigs...what a fun day!

We miss the Hollender's and Riley often asks about her best buddy Braden! I made the kids an alphabet photo book with pictures of all the fun they have had together and Riley likes to read it all the time! The advantage of military life is all the great friends you meet along the way but the con is having to say "bye" too soon and too often!