Biker Gang

 The girls got their first ever bikes this past weekend.  Marcus had a 4 day weekend with the holiday so at the beginning of it he took the girls to the PX to buy some sweet wheels we had been eyeing for them.  

 They are pretty girl-tastic and they LOVE them.  Bianca has a Barbie bike with tassels, a front basket for her babies and a removable barbie sized bike on the handle bars (she was riding around with a topless Tiana this day).  He helmet is Barbie too and she thinks she is the coolest ever, which she totally is.

 Olivia's is a Disney Princess bike with tassels and then a basket on the front that looks like a carriage.  It has a little seat in the front part of the carriage for a baby if she wants to take one along and a flip lid for her treasures in the back of the carriage.

 We live at the end of a little dead street.  The only people that live down our lane are the families in our 4-plex and the families that live in the 4-plex directly across from us.  Everyone has like 2-4 kids and they are all elementary school aged.  Another family on our side has two girls similar in age to mine and they all play together really good.

So pretty much all weekend there was different variations of the kids running around oustide and playing on their bikes while parents talked to neighbors or sat and read a book.  We all know to drive into our lane really slowly because there is almost always someone outside playing.  It is a really fun vibe and everyone is really nice to each other.  It is like family heaven!  Our lane doesn't have a name, that I know of, but it should be something like "Family Fun Lane".

My Marcus, bless his heart, took the girls outside anytime they asked and kept an eye on them so I could try and rest.  He also took them to go see Wreck It Ralph (with every other family we knew on the island).  I wanted to go and see it too but it is so sucky to get a cough attack and try and stop and I didn't want to go and then be missing the movie because I couldn't stop coughing.  Wreck It Ralph was only playing on our base for the weekend so that is pretty much what all the families did.  Movies here come and go really quick so you have to be on top of the movie schedule or else you have to wait for them to come out to rent.  Plus the movies are cheaper so our whole brood can go and not break the bank, which is AWESOME!!