Day to Day with the Dea's: Most Special Sunday Roast....

We've had a pretty eventful past few days, so we wanted to relax and enjoy this lovely Sunday. But to make this Sunday even more special we invited the Beales' family out for some leisurely fun. Michael even offered to make us up a very special Sunday roast dinner as well. So he brought everything and then some. While he started up the dinner we took the kids out for some boating on the lake. Gemma checked out the row boat with Kevin and the kids, while Emily and Kyle tried out the kayak.

Harrison was a good little boater and really enjoyed himself. After a bit, Gemma and I went out on the kayak together and explored the far side of the lake. Kyle chased after us with the single kayak and really made us nervous with how wobbley he was. Well, all stories have to have a fun ending. We were all making our way back to the dock and no more than 6 feet away, Kyle topples over and ends up in the water. We were all laughing so hard...and the poor kids were crying because they thought he as hurt.

Kyle was a good sport and we worked on getting his clothes cleaned while finding him some other clothes to get by for the rest of the day. This is the best outfit we could come up for him.

With life jackets still on everyone moved over to the tennis courts to hit a few balls and shoot some hoops. Debbie told me later that when we she pulled up to the house and saw us all out their playing, she just had an amazing feeling come over her. It really was so nice to just have space to play. This day was making me feel like a family get together we would have back home.

After plenty of playing outside we moved inside. Addison got Debbie to do some dancing.

Lellie got Harrison to sit still for about 2.6 seconds, but she kept working on as many cuddles as she could get. This young lady has become such a special part of our family that I'm almost contemplating either adopting her or kidnapping her in my suitcase. I don't think her mom and dad really want to loose her yet.

Then the Beales' pulled out some special gifts for us all which was way too much as they had already brought over gifts last week. But these were all very unique to us all which made them so special. Kevin got a set of cuff links with the crest of Cambridgeshire as Michael works for the Cambridgeshire police and Debbie is part of the Cambridgeshire NHS. Debbie presented me with a little sterling silver charm of a double decker bus. I had totally forgotten to get my England charm and they remembered! Also Emily gave us all a beautiful Union Jack quilted pillow with a stitching in the back from our favorite "Supersitter Lellie."

The kids each got a Union Jack piggy bank with their names on them.

I caught Michael getting the roast all ready.

Then we laid out all the food and filled up our plates.

I LOVE English Sunday Roasts!!!!

Sitting down together as a "family" for dinner.

Harrison gets in some play time with his best friend - "Tyle" (Harry gets his T's and K's mixed up). Kyle is really a great guy and we enjoyed having him spend today with us as well.