Busy, busy week

What a crazy busy week! Nick's sister K and her kids came in on Monday, and her husband joined them on Friday. We let them get settled in Monday night, but Tuesday we went to visit. Her little boy (we'll call him Mark) turned one earlier this month, and he's into everything! He and Daisy really liked each other, although we really had to watch him to make sure he wasn't too rough with her. Morgan and K's daughter (we'll call her Kaylee) spent the night with Nick and K's other sister R and her husband C.

Wednesday K had plans to take R, C, Morgan, Kaylee, and Mark to a local theme park, and she invited me and Daisy to go too. She paid for everyone's tickets as well as pretty much everything else that day, and at the end of the day she even purchased season passes for me and Morgan so that we can go for the rest of the year! It was an incredibly generous gesture, and I'm really excited about it. Nick and I visited this theme park on our honeymoon, and we bought season passes every year for a number of years. The last few years it's not been in the budget, so this was a special gift for us. Daisy is still young enough to get in free, so all we need to do is get Nick a pass now. Even better, R has a connection to get us a one day pass for free, and that can be put toward Nick's season pass and cut the price by more than half. Morgan spent that night with my in-laws, which is where K and her kids were staying.

Thursday Nick was off, so we got to spend the day together. We went and got my hair cut and colored, then went to have lunch with R and C. K had taken Morgan, Kaylee, and Mark to the family lake cabin with Nick's grandparents, and Morgan got a pretty bad sunburn. She and I are both very fair skinned, and I'm pretty religious about making sure she has on sunscreen at the lake. Unfortunately they weren't as careful about making sure she was covered, and it really upset me to see her in so much pain. We all went to R and C's house to hang out for a while, and when K left to go back to her parents' house with Kaylee and Mark, she took Morgan with her to spend the night again. But about 11:00 we got a call to come pick her up. She just felt so bad from the sunburn and was really missing us, so she slept at home that night.

Friday was K's birthday. We all had dinner together after Nick got home from work, then K had to run to the airport to pick up her husband. We all decided to go to a drive-in movie afterwards. It was a double feature, and we saw Toy Story 3 and The A-Team. Morgan stayed the night with my in-laws again.

Saturday was our 12th anniversary, and honestly we didn't do a whole lot for it. Money was an issue, but we also had Nick's cousin A's wedding that evening, so we just kind of relaxed and got in a long nap together. The wedding was beautiful although very hot and humid since it was held outside. But it was at a Civil War home that's listed on the historical registry, which was really neat, and I'd love to go back and do a photo shoot there. It was also A's parents' wedding anniversary, as well as Nick's great grandparents' anniversary, something we didn't know when we got married ourselves. Morgan was spending the night with our in-laws one last time, so Nick and I went and had dinner together. Daisy really didn't want to go to sleep when we got home, but eventually I got her down and Nick and I were able to spend some time loving each other.

You'd think that with all this time with Morgan away from home we'd have gotten to our weekly spanking, but honestly we were both so worn out by the end of every day that it was all we could do to make it to bed! Hopefully we'll be able to get to it this week.

K and her husband took Mark back to Texas with them today, although Kaylee ended up staying here with her dad's parents. Her dad is supposed to have her during the summer. Unfortunately he's not much of a father, and he didn't bother to make arrangements for that until today. In fact, he actually lives a couple of hours away and won't be coming to get her for another couple of days. K had already bought a plane ticket back home for Kaylee because she hadn't heard anything from her ex, so it was pretty emotional for her to have to say goodbye to Kaylee for the rest of the summer on such short notice.

Anyway, that's been my crazy week - how's yours been?