Trey and Cat

Weekend

Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Cat.
Categories: life.

This past weekend we had grand plans to ride 25 miles in the Puddle for the Ducks fundraiser bike ride. We need the seat time to train for the big MS 150 ride in April (happy birthday to me!) and thought that we could manage to pull the kids in the trailer for half of the ride each.

Now everyone think about that statement. 12.5 miles for each of us hauling approximatly 70 pounds of kids and trailer behind us. Not to mention pedaling our own tushes down the street. IN THE WIND! The wind and the whining is really what did us in. Trey was on the edge of catching the sick from the kids and I had been up many times in the night to settle little people that woke up because they couldn’t breath out of their noses. Too bad Delaney and Noah can’t manage to time their wake-ups together. Between the two of them I had been up 7 times throughtout the night. AND we got up early to get to Katy for the ride. Everyone knows how well Trey does in the morning before 9am.

But, we were ambitious, got everything and everyone loaded and made it to the ride sign-in just before they closed. We were on our way on the bikes and had to climb a big hill from a dead stop right of the bat. I ended up behind Trey so he could set the pace since he had the trailer for the first leg of the ride. Not even 5 miles into riding the whining and crying commenced. Both kid’s helmets had slid forward covering their faces. And they had rivers of snot coming out of their noses. We could see the entrance to Missy and Oswaldo’s neighborhood in the distance, so we told each other that if the kids continued to cry all the way to the entrance we would just turn in and see what the Nass family was up to and abandon our ride.

10 minutes later we were standing in front of the Nass house and calling Missy. SURPRISE! It’s not even 9 am and we are on your front doorstep, please take pity on us and let us in.

Missy took me back to our car while the guys watched the kids. The kids had a blast in the backyard and we had a great time catching up with each other until Missy’s hungry pregnant tummy and my (I have no excuse) tummy decided it was time for lunch. We loaded up and went to a cute little cafe in Fulshear called Essence. Everything was fresh and tasty. Our server was a bit spacey, but she mentioned that she had 4 younger siblings and didn’t even hear all of the noise made by Delaney and Isa so she immediatly went on my favorite person list.

On our way home Delaney and Noah fell asleep in the car, so Trey and I took some serious backroads to get home so they could nap. It was great, Trey was trapped in the car with no computer to distract him so we go to have a real adult conversation with no kid or computer interruptions.

The rest of the afternoon and evening we just hung out at the house and cleaned up some stuff. The open windows let in a nice breeze and after the kids were put to bed I had a chance to read a bit.

Sunday was gloriously uneventful, grocery shopping in the morning and hanging out at home for the rest of the day.

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