Weekend with Family

What a weekend!  We traveled to Aaron's parent's house on Friday night to spend the weekend with them.  Aaron's dad was building a hanger and needed the boys to come help.  It was the most perfect weekend for it, too.  The weather was amazing.  The first of the trip took much longer than it should.  We've typically gotten very lucky with Nashville traffic, but we weren't so lucky this time traveling through.  It set us back about 45 minutes.  Thankfully, the boys did well.  You never know with Blake. 

Saturday morning the guys got up and going pretty early to get started on the hanger.  After breakfast Connor decided he was going to go with them.  So, he went out for a while while Brenda and I sorted through pictures we had ordered.  As we are sitting there sorting, Aaron comes to the door and says "It's not as bad as it looks."  Not words you want to hear...especially when you see that he is carrying your 5 year old little guy!!  Connor is holding a handkerchif on his head with blood running down!  We take it off his head and his hair is just covered with blood.  I actually held it together very well.  I never would have thought I'd be able to keep my composure given what Connor looked like.  But, he wasn't crying.  He said he felt fine.

So, I get him to the bathroom and set him up on the counter to try to figure out our plan of action.  My MIL and I decide we need to get the blood out of his hair so we can see how bad the cut really is because we just couldn't see anything except blood.  So, we stuck him under the bathtub faucet and got as much out of his hair as possible.  Once I finally got him cleaned up we only found a cut about half an inch long.  Took a while to get him all fixed up, but he did so good.  He only let 2 tears fall when I put alcohol on it.  But, never said a word.  He is so tough...and doesn't want anyone to see him cry.

We made him play a lot more carefully the rest of the weekend with the cousins after that.  We sure didn't need that cut opening back up again.  And, even this morning as he was getting ready to leave, he asked me if he could play on a certain piece of playground equipment.  He wanted to make sure he didn't break it open again. 

We then headed to see my grandparents at their new assisted living facility.  We sat on the porch with them and visited and had lunch with them.  They sure enjoy seeing the boys.

The rest of the weekend was full of cousins playing together, the women sitting around talking and the men out working on the hanger...good times!

Lots of heart smiling times!