Clay Vacay!!!

Clay decided to take a week off this month!! He had built up vacation days and his boss said this month was their slowest month so if he was going to take a vacay now would be a good time. Kids tracked out Friday and Clay took the whole first week of track out off!!
It has been so much fun!!
Half day of school on Friday, and Carly came home sick.
Saturday I went to U.S. National White Water in Charlotte. Came home to Clay and Abbi sick!!

Monday we went to the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.
(I have to share the "Paityn-ism" from this trip! We were in the Butterfly house checking out all the insects and butterflies. When we walked out of the actual room where the butterflies were Paityn found a door that was all fogged so people couldnt see in. Paityn started messing with the lock and trying to get in. Clay said "Paityn you can not go in there." Paityn of course answered with "Why?" Clay says "Well, thats where they keep dead people." Paityn then shrugged her shoulders and in total Paityn brilliance said "Oh" and kept walking, like every building has dead people in it. Oh it still makes me laugh out loud!)
Tuesday we went to Ritter Park in Cary. (funny "Paityn-ism" from this trip; a group of kids were playing Hide & Seek, when it was Paityn's turn to hide the seeker walked right by her and Paityn chimes in with "I'm right here ya'know!") After a fun trip to the park we decided to hit the new yogurt bar in Holly Springs called Yogurt Fushion. It was alright.
Wednesday we hung out here and cleaned out the whole garage then took a trip to the dump. I have many hopes and dreams regarding what I want to do with this garage. It is a one car garage. You can totally fit a car in there but good luck trying to open your door!! So we never park in here. We just store all our junk in here. My dream is to build it in. Turn it into Jacob's room and then separate the girls into the 2 bedrooms upstairs. Its just a matter of getting our money tree to sprout!!
Thursday morning we went into Cary and hit Michaels to get crafts for Saturday. We also went by my favorite frozen yogurt dive in Cary called "Skinny Dip". You serve yourself from a variety of different flavors of frozen yogurt, then you head over to the toppings bar and load up on all sorts of toppings to choose from, place it on the scale and its .39 cents per ounce! YUM!! After yogurt we headed over to "The Meat House" to get some steaks for dinner. After all that we hung out and played outside in the sprinkler and swimming pool.
Friday we went to the NC Zoo in Asheboro. It was so much fun! We got to see so many different animals. This zoo is so different then the zoo in DC that I grew up going to. The animals at the zoo in Ashboro have ACRES to roam around in. The National Zoo in DC all the animals are in little pens and it is so depressing seeing the Tigers just walk back and forth out of boredom! The food was SUPER expensive (sorta figured that when the sign out front said "no outside coolers allowed", but the tram was FREE so that was a bonus) We did exactly what the zoo web site said to do and parked at the N. America side, took the tram to Africa and do that whole side first. Had some lunch then jumped back on the free tram and headed to N. America. When you get to N America side there is a small but really fun play ground that the kids really enjoyed! We visited as many animals as we could before Katrina (ready for nap) and Mom (woke up sick) had had enough.
Saturday was Dillard craft day due to Hurricane Irene. Jacob picked out some wood model kits to put together and paint, Carly picked out 2 clay horses to paint, Paityn got a variety box of crafts and Katrina got paint. The fun was never ending!!
We have had so much fun with Clay home this week! He really is a hands on Daddy! He loves getting into whatever the kids are getting into! He loves being a Daddy more than anything else in life! He has really put work on the back burner this week which has been absolutely AMAZING!! and a little SHOCKING to be honest!!
Having him go back to work on Monday is going to be tough on all of us. I don't know what I am going to do for the rest of track out with all these kids all to myself!?!?
Maybe we will go visit him every day and take him for walks around Regency Lake and bring him lunch etc.......
I feel so blessed to have Clay as my husband and Father of our gifts from God!!