Best part of the weekend!

This weekend we jumped in Joshua's truck and headed out of town with him...half because Joshua needed to do some work stuff between here and Salt Lake City and half because it would be fun family time to get out of the house...yanno--two birds, one stone.

Well this is my favorite part of our weekend out of town. We got to our hotel after dark on Friday night. It wasn't the nicest of hotels we've stayed at (with all of Joshua's frequent stayer club deals, he usually can put us up in SUPER nice hotel suites for nothing...but we were stuck with Reese, so read...dog = lesser accomodations haha). Anyway, we parked around back and walked around a central garden area toward our room when we were VERY surprised to see a full volleyball court! Joshua chuckled at the odd sight...you don't usually see a volleyball court at a Holiday Inn or Hilton...and the kids started jumping up and down saying "looky looky!!" (they had lots of pent up in-the-car energy). And then Emilee chimed in with a shocked tone of voice "Hey!! I brought my volleyball!!" There I was unpacking suitcases and I see Joshua grab Emilee's ball and head out the door, all the kids in tow. Tickled at the spontaneity, I followed. So our family spent about half an hour playing volleyball in the dark in the garden of an odd hotel...and we had a BLAST! We played Em & Trev VS Dad & Mom for a while...and then switched to Dad & Em VS Mom & Trev. Who knows what the score ended up being, but we had a ton of fun running around in the sand chasing a ball we could barely see! And Carter, not to be left out, just hung out on the court with us making "sand angels" and running all over while we played over and around him!

The other hilarious part of this volleyball court was it was meticulously groomed when we got there...meaning the gardener had used a special sand rake and made super straight and pretty lines along the length of it. It looked like one of those sand zen gardens that people play with on their desk to de-stress...only super sized! Anyway, I can't imagine too many people play in this volleyball court...so we all got a good laugh out of imagining the gardener's face the next morning when his perfect lines were all replaced with crazy footprint marks.

(If you click to zoom in on the picture, you can just barely make out Emilee in the top left corner about to serve her pink and white volleyball...Carter is wearing orange running around near here, and Trev is waiting for Daddy's volley at the top right.)