Staff outing!!

Forgot my camera. I know! Horrible. But it was AWESOME! I almost wrote on here the night before we went, but who knew what readers were out there that might have found out what we were doing before Friday morning. WELL...we all met at the practice and ordered our Starbucks for the road...headed up to Grand Rapids to River Crossing Mall, Neal gave everyone some money to spend on themselves and 2 hours to shop til they dropped. Then we headed back to Holland to a play some LASER TAG!!! Oh man, it was SOOO FUN!! I have personally never been before, but don't know why the heck not. It was awesome! Picture a group of 15 middle-aged women, and Ryan and Neal (haha) 'running' around in the dark trying to shoot each other. It was hillarious. We all laughed a lot...2 ten minute games and we were all drenched and exhausted. There were many jokes about needing oxygen masks and wheelchairs and Trish yelling 'DIE DIE DIE' while she was shooting people...hahahahaahahaaa...pretty funny. Then we went to a very nice restraunt in Holland, can't remember the name...Johnny something...it was good. Then about 6:00, they headed for home and Ryan and I went back to Hudsonville to visit our friends, the Vugteveens....Randy and Judy, Dustin and Breanne, and Wade and Esther and their two daughters Ava and Tessa. It's always great to see them and catch up. We dont' see them enough for how close we live!

One full day without the boys!!!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch....Joe and Susie watched the kids ALL DAY for us so we could have some fun with the staff...we are very thankful because we couldn't have done the things we did with them along. Sorry boys, you're cute, but a LOT of work. =) We got back to get the report from the day... Susie watched them by herself while Joe was at work....and the only time she was a bit overwhelmed was when they both decided to bomb thru their outfits at the same time!! hahahaaa. Good timing boys. And of course I only packed along one extra outfit (who does that?? I have twins, common get with it!!) SO, she had to do some laundry so they could be clothed again. Dang. How often do they bomb at the same time. I mean really. But they all had fun. They're pretty good babies, but not as good as Tessa!! She's 4 days older than the boys, and SO MUCH quieter! And, E and G are both crawling and climbing but Tessa stays where you put her still. Dangit. =) She is so cute. Anyhoo, here are some pics from the grandparents!





Don't think they could be much cuter!

Some exciting upcoming events for the Thomas family...
1. Tonight, party with the area dentists! Should be awesome!
2. Monday, Evan is 22!
3. Wednesday, Amber, Erin and Josh are coming to see us for a few days!!
4. Friday, fireworks on the pier!
5. July 7-11, House sit for Bancrofts
6. July 8, Erin's open heart surgery.
7. July 12 (two weeks from today) leave for Hawaii with Richard and Heather for a week without the boys!!!!!
8. July 13, Cale is 23!

House update: Hopefully they can start diggin a hole for our basement right when we get back- We'll see! First of two house plan revisions is this week!