Well That Didn't Go As Planned

One of my oldest friends turned 40 the other day.

I've known him since I was 10 years old. 

We were friends in elementary school, middle school, and high school.

He has always been a part of my life.

I'm very good friends with his wife Emily.

So for his 40th, the "big boys" (are what we call them because everyone has boys. We are the only couple with girls, really) arranged to take Andy out fishing - like far out on Lake Ontario to get the big fish.

They've had it planned for a few weeks now.

So us wives (Emily, Trista, and myself) decided to have a pool day at our house. The forecast said 80 and sunny. Perfect.

And as the week went on, the temperate kept dropping. 

Now it was forecasted to be 70 and sunny. 

Well, whatever because kids don't care as long as it's sunny. 

But then, as we were planning OUR stuff, things just got thwarted. 

Like, Emily ended up not having her car to get here. 

The fishing trip got canceled because apparently, the guy didn't get not one fish earlier in the morning so he was worried they'd all go out there and basically do nothing. 

The big boys (along with a few other guys) had decided before fishing got canceled that they wanted to shoot guns beforehand. So Steve packed up his guns and off he went.

Since fishing didn't work out, they decided to stay home and shoot guns.

And since Emily didn't have a vehicle, it was easier for Trista to go get her and bring her back to her house, versus making the hour drive to my house. 

So we crashed my friend's 40th.

We were told "wives had to stay on the other side of the hill"

Also us: 

So we ended up hanging out with the boys for some of the afternoon lol. 

It was fun to watch the kids shoot. Steve was commenting about how he used to do the exact same thing with his dad and Turk and Turk's dad. Exact same thing.

We had such a good time. My girls were hanging in the back of a pick up eating snacks. Proud mom moment😂

Kenny pulling clay pigeons for Steve

#badmoms

throwing rocks in the creek

Jake did GREAT! 

My boy Frank. Rich has to hold his tiny shoulder...so cute. 

Kid life. 

My babies. I can't take how much I love them. 

I think us wives did a good job of staying out of the boys' way - they spent the entire time down at the big barn and us ladies spent time up at the smaller barn near the house. 

We ended up staying there until about 5pm and I had to drag the girls away. They wanted to stay and hang with dad. 

But, the boys had fun, we had fun and now it's time to start the week again!