Make My Monday: Lazy(ish) Weekend

Most of our weekend was spent catching up on sleep, getting our place back in order, and enjoying our little family.  HOWEVER, we would not be the LaPlantes if we didn't still have a lot going on during the weekend.

Here was the highlight:

2013 Water Missions International 

Walk for Water

This was our third year participating in the walk.  This charity is incredibly important to Darryl, as he has spent the last three years fundraising for their cause through SC Federal Credit Union.  Water Missions works to provide clean and safe drinking water to countries all over the world.  They currently have systems in 49 countries and 5 continents, and they have brought clean water to over 2 million people.  Did I mention that the non-profit is based on Christian values and was started in Charleston?  Yeah, we love it.  Side note:  Darryl went to Africa a year and a half ago with Water Missions.

Back to the walk...this is the 7th Annual Walk.  Participants carry a bucket 1.5 miles to the Battery, fill their buckets with water, and then carry it back 1.5 miles to Cannon Park.  We do this to symbolize the distance many people have to travel every day just to receive a bucket of water (and it's not always the cleanest).  Bottom line:  it's really cool.

Here's a picture of our family participating last year:

This year Darryl and Young Free SC were in charge of the photobooth.  So here's our family shots!

Pharaoh, Sawyer, Queenie, Norah

We knew Norah was a little young for this long of a walk, so we expected to carry her for a bit.  HOWEVER, we did not know that Princess Norah would only take three steps.  So...

She ended up in the bucket.

And slept.  How rude right?

She was a Walk for Water celebrity.  People were coming up to us and taking pictures of her and asking us to take her to show their families.  You seriously wouldn't have believed it.  People love goldendoodles, y'all.  It's a basic fact of life.

Overall, we had a really wonderful time walking.  My parents, Darryl's twin brother, and his best friend Cameron also joined us.  Such a great cause, and who wouldn't love cruising down to the Battery?  

ps. You can always spot me in photos because I was wearing a NEON pink sweatshirt.  

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ALSO, Norah figured out how to do this:

AND she's seriously the cutest.

But, will never be as cool as my Sawyer.  He's the coolest. For reals.

A friend from college (who has an awesome blog that you can check out here) recently told me that we have storybook-esque dogs.  I love that!  And I seriously think someone should get on writing about their adventures ASAP.

Hope y'all had a great weekend!

xoxo,

Kel