When life gives you lemons......

Nope, no Corkill family vacation this year.
Clark Griswold would of had a cow.
But we made due with what we had, Nick isn't eligible for vacation yet and if he was Lord knows we don't have funds to throw towards a family trip.

I wanted Nick to have a vacation so what's a family to do????
Vacation OC style, noooo not Orange County...Oak Cliff.
We house sat at John and Deb's and made that our vacation.
A big house, King size bed that's oh so comfy, a pool at our disposable and our stay was 30 minutes from anywhere!
George Clooney in "O brother where Art thou" would call this place a geographical oddity.

Our vacation started with my sweet morning run and a trip to the bakery.
I then sat outside as the sun shone softly and ate me some grub.
(My trio of manly men were still sleeping)




Isn't that lovely below ??






My boys finally woke up to some sweet bread and milk.
Nick went to work just to make sure he didn't have any work to make up.
Little E and I took advantage of this lovely mature neighborhood and all its lovely shady trees!
If we try playing in our front yard early afternoon we would roast!

See in the pic...lovely trees.

E was super proud of this monkey.

I was proud that he spelled it on verbal ques.
Funny thing is his monkey looks like the sloth on Ice Age :).

Pop's home super early (no make-up work) and played with his boys.

My three loves.

Nick & I watched the boys play tag. He looked at them with a melancholy eye remembering when it was him and his brother on that very side walk that very age.

While my guys goofed around the front yard I made shirts!
Nick and I LOVE Rock-T's for the boys, but they are way out of our price range.

I saw some for 50 dollars on-line, insanity!!

Nick and Little E finished up some with some major side walk art work.
I wonder if John and Deb's nosey neighbor has had a cow over it yet..hee hee.

Zenny relaxing pool side.

Mom and Dad relaxing pool side.

Couldn't make up my mind on what I wanted to read.

Finish a Stephen King book I started like forever ago, browse Apples for Jam (this book always makes me smile), check out some diet recipes from a cook book Tonya let me borrow, or sneak a peek at John's new magazine.

Check out the crazy canon ball boys in the back ground.

Yes, we had a lovely vacation.

My Nicky & boys slept in late, I ran in a BEAUTIFUL neighborhood where everyone gave me thumbs up and offered their tree swings for me to rest if needed, Nick even took a nap in the afternoon...twice!! And we ate and ate and ate some more.

Aaahhhh Perfect family vacation.