My sister and her household came over for the weekend. Right here’s a recap of our very cousin weekend!

A Very Cousin Weekend Began on Friday!

We attempt to go to one another’s homes no less than every year, hopefully extra. I want we have been nearer than 4.5 hours aside. 

My sister and her fam drove up after faculty on Friday and arrived simply in time for bedtime on Friday night time. After the children ran means various laps round the lounge, they settled into some books. When the little ones have been asleep, the grown ups had Outdated Fashioneds utilizing the next! 

Bittermilk makes so many superior cocktail mixes, and I discovered this one at Bottle Home on the town.

Saturday is for Sisters

The lads made golf plans for Sunday, so Saturday was for sisters! Laura and I walked to ACAC to hit up the heated vinyasa class collectively, after which took our time coming again dwelling.

First cease was the farmer’s market the place she purchased some Nice Harvest gluten-exclusion bread, after which we went to Nook Juice for essentially the most superb in a single day oats / chia pudding combo and avocado toast! Nook Juice is without doubt one of the finest wholesome lunch spots on the downtown mall. 

Lunch Salads

In the meantime, the children had a blast taking part in with each stuffed animal in the home!

We made Rotisserie hen salads with my favourite blue cheese – spiced pecan – orange marmalade dressing for lunch. 

Blue Ridge Mountain Maze

Our afternoon was spent on the Blue Ridge Mountain Maze!

We had completely PERFECT climate all weekend – heat and gentle! 

The children had a lot enjoyable darting between the youngsters’s actions. The slide was an enormous hit!

Thomas even went for the problem!

The Corn Maze

After which it was time to deal with the maze. I made plenty of maze + Mazen jokes!

The signal stated it’d take us about 45 minutes, however fortunately (as a result of it was fairly sizzling out) we completed in about 20. The maze was greater than we anticipated and tremendous enjoyable!! Mazen had carried out it as soon as earlier than and he guided us slightly. This was good as a result of Avery and Birch wouldn’t have lasted 45 minutes!

THE END!

We had refreshments and listened to a princess sing-along earlier than heading to dinner.

Professional Re Nata

We had dinner midway dwelling at Pre Re Nata Brewery. It was crowded, however PRN is so massive that we didn’t have hassle discovering a desk. 

The playground – small as it’s – was an enormous hit. 

So was our pizza and wing dinner!

The children had baths and we referred to as it an evening on the sofa. 

Sunday Breakfast

Toast and smoothies for all!

Because it was golf day, the blokes received prepared for his or her tee time and we took the children to Greer Elementary’s playground for a bit. 

The “elevator” was a giant hit, particularly for Birch who received courageous sufficient to attempt it. 

Lunch at Brazos

After the playground, we hit up Brazos for lunch! 

Adopted by plenty of IX park taking part in…. (I have no idea what we might have carried out if it rained all weekend!) 

Again at dwelling, we waited for the dads. 

Golf was the spotlight of their weekend!

Premature soccer playoffs

Sadly our soccer crew had our playoffs sport proper in the course of L+M go to. Since Matt performed soccer at Davidson, we nearly registered him for the crew to hitch us, however attributable to the truth that the sport was scheduled for 5pm and we had 4 children, we determined that wouldn’t be the neatest resolution. Thomas stayed dwelling and grilled out for the group whereas I went to the sport attributable to the truth that if I missed as one in all our solely three girls I might have abandoned our crew to play lady down on the sector with 10 gamers. 

I had a good time, though we misplaced ultimately. 

After the sport I joined the group for burgers, salad, and vino. 

Monday Goodbyes

Larbs and I liked the chia pudding at Nook Juice a lot we made our personal! This combine was one can of full-fat coconut milk, 1/4 cup plus 3 tbsp chia seeds, a sprinkle of cinnamon, a tsp of vanilla, and three tbsp maple syrup. It was so good!

Served in glasses with fruit, lavender jam, and almond butter. 

Goodbye cousins, please come again quickly!

Birch cried after they left. They performed so arduous collectively!