Long weekend of fun

I started my weekend early (see previous post). After a busy Friday, the rest of the weekend was free and open to enjoy. Clay's mom and dad were here for the weekend and we decided to have my folks over for lunch on Saturday too.

So we fired up the grill in its new home on the patio built-in.

 I told Clay it makes the BIG grill we just got look so small but it's nice to have that little area and now Clay can leave it out and connected until we bring it in for the winter.
We had a nice lunch of burgers, pasta salad, chips &dip and brownies and enjoyed each other's company for the afternoon.
On Sunday, we decided to take Grandma and Grandpa B to the zoo. It was a lot cooler weather and it was very enjoyable. The animals were active and Kenley enjoyed most of them.... Of course, she still isn't too fond of this gal...

Kenley  even refused to watch her swim at all as soon as she (the sea lion) got out of the water and barked her hello.  Kenley did still enjoy the otter swimming back and forth and really seemed to take an interest in a lot more of the animals this time. It really helped that they were so active with the cooler weather.
Kenley got a big kick out of the goat at the petting zoo coming out to give me a big ole' kiss too...

but I think her favorite thing from this trip to the zoo was definitely the TURTLES... She asked to go back and see them several times and she really liked the BIG turtle.

All in all it was a wonderful morning at the zoo and we topped it off with a yummy lunch from Boo Boo's Dawghouse ;o)
Today (Monday) was a low key day. I had wanted to go to the parade but we decided against it. The chillier weather would have frozen my poor father-in-law so we relaxed and played around the house. The guys did a few small things from my "honey-do" list (more on that in a later post) and Kenley and Grandma B colored a great deal. Grandma and Grandpa headed home shortly after lunch and Kenley went down for her nap. The afternoon and evening have passed much too quickly and now it's time for me to head off to bed so I can face another day at work tomorrow. Hope everyone else had a wonderful LONG weekend as well. More to come from this end soon!