Our Week in the 'Burg

I'm back from my blogging sabatical in Lynchburg. We had such a wonderful time relaxing and being on "Reber Time". Visiting home is such a refreshing place to return to. The weather was great and the kids had such a fun time being together and running around in Grandaddy and Grammy's yard. It was nice to send them outside and not worry about them! I had a great time with my sisters and parents, too. Here is another picture montage featuring our week in Virginia:

Here is my sweet Daddy Boy fixing his famous Saturday Morning Pancake Breakfast. He has done this since I can remember. They are the yummiest, most scrumptious pancakes around. Look at those golden babies!

Saturday night, we celebrated my Mom's birthday. 9 out of the 10 grandchildren were there to help her celebrate and all five of her little blessings were there, too. She was happy and we had a fun night!!

Sunday morning before church, Grandaddy held the kids as we waited for Grammy to finish getting ready. They sat and sang songs. Harrison Jack joined them for the picture.

Monday afternoon, Denise and I met my sister Dayna at my parent's church for lunch with the kids and to go play in the indoor playground. Here is Caroline, Janna and Harrison Jack playing in a tree.

Classic Margaux Jeanne. Looking precious with her pacifer in her mouth.

TRBC's indoor playground is so cool. I wish our church had one. Here are the kids sitting in the mouth of the fish that ate Jonah!

Later that night, my parents watched 7 kids all by themselves and my four sisters and I went out for a night on the town. Watch out Lynchburg! We are some crazy, crazy girls. I'm not sure what Dolly's doing in this picture?! Poor Mom. At one point in the evening, she had one child doing a poopoo on the potty, one doing a poopoo in her pants and one about to have a blow-out right after, in his diaper. Mine were two of the culprits.

Our sister, Dayna, met up with us at La Carretta for some yummy Mexican food. We forgot it was Cinco de Mayo. This restaurant was packed! Is it just me, or does my head look gigantic in this very unflattering photo?

Dayna had to say bye after dinner because her kids had school the next day. Not ours! The rest of us went to the glorious River Ridge Mall cinema to go see Baby Mama. As you can see from the looks on my sisters' faces, this movie is funny...

...really, really FUNNY! And yes, we like to pose our pictures to make our points. Side note: During the previews, a really scary preview came on for a movie called The Strangers. It was SOOO creepy. We were all afraid we were going to keep thinking about what we saw after we turned our lights out for the night.

Danny learned how to drive the golf-cart this past weekend and he kept asking people if they wanted rides....over... and over... again! It was neat to see him be so proud of something, though. He's only 7 and does a great job!

Tuesday night was Juette's soccer game. I kept telling him I was going to make signs and bring them along to help cheer on the team. His mom thought I was joking. Much to her and her husband's dismay I was not. I think they were a little annoyed and embarrassed. See, in this picture, they are totally ignoring me. Yikes!!

I mean, I spent some serious time and effort on these signs. I will say, though, that they were a HIT with my neices and nephews. I even had a cheer made up for the Tigers.

"T-I-G-E-R-S! T-I-G-E-R-S..." I'll refrain from typing out my whole cheer, but look at the cute, little goalie in action! Gooooooo, Juette!

#4! Go, Big Orange!! Look how cute he is with his hot, rosey cheeks and sweaty head:) He kept reminding me that he made 2 goals.

Shoo! I'm getting tired. We're almost done. Okay, on Wednesday, Denise, Dolly and I drove to Danville, VA to meet Julie Day for lunch! Julie is a serious blog lurker, for one thing, and a great seamstress as well. She is always so fun to be around and she kept us all laughing for 4 hours...I'm serious! Julie, leave some comments already!

On the way back home, we made a little pit-stop at Dairy Queen for some yummy blizzards. I'm not going to try to explain this picture. It has me laughing, though!!



My lovah' boy in the back seat with me. Again, my mom watched 3 of the kids for us that day. She earned the name of "Grammy" this week for sure.





Wednesday night after dinner, Grandaddy, Harrison Jack, Margaux and Caroline enjoyed some ice cream on the porch. It was a beautiful night and we ended up sitting and rocking on the porch for a while.

Then Dawn picked me up to go see her new house! She moves in this next week and she is one excited girl. I would be, too. Check out this kitchen?!! Let me loose in that thing and I could whip you up a serious meal.

And give me a few hours in this bathroom, and I can come out a very clean girl. Wow! This shower includes a steam shower, which is Roy's dream must-have. I told Dawn that the next time we come in town, expect some house guests.

So there you have it! Our week in pictures. Now I have to do laundry and re-pack. Tomorrow Caroline's school has a Mother's Day program and then we are heading to Boone for Cissie's graduation and Mother's Day. Stay tuned!