July Fourth Summer 2015

It was a super hot June for this area and we bought a little air conditioner for our room just before the weekend it hit 107! It was pretty miserable because my in-laws don't have air conditioning. Their room is half under ground & much cooler so they usually don't need it. The A/C unit was the best purchase ever - don't know what we would've done without it! The girls camped out in our room during those extremes for almost 2 weeks. We were going pretty crazy with all the disarray, & hardly being able to cook. Sierra is one wild sleeper - used to rocking around all over the place in her crib. I was constantly waking up during the night dragging her back to her mattress from across the room. And they were up way too late, and there was not a minute of alone time at the end of the day. It was not restful! We desperately need to find our own house asap! And preferably one with central A/C! Luckily the temperatures have cooled down and the girls are back in their own room. We had a nice anniversary date after looking at a few houses. Yummy Stromboli at David's Pizza, a movie & a walk by the river. It was nice to be just the two of us for a little while! Thank you to Grandma for babysitting!

This year we kind of kept our July 4th celebrations low key so the kids (and us) wouldn't be tired out before firework time. We did some little fireworks the night before. I didn't get good pictures of the light up ones because it was too dark, but you can see the girls having fun with snakes and streamers (in the 3rd of July outfits Lily picked out that look more like a celebration of Mexico -ha, ha!) On the 4th Mike took some photos of us to practice getting better at taking photos of people. Sierra wasn't super into it- looking back maybe she was already not feeling too good... But we got some cute photos anyway, and enjoyed watching the fireworks at Riverfront Park with some shaved ice that evening. Didn't pick the best spot (the fireworks were all hidden by a tree) so we had to move and stand on the bridge - will know better for next year!

 I'm so lucky to have this guy!

 (silly with streamers)

 

 Lily was being surprisingly cooperative that day!

 I can't believe she is 7!

 Ha ha, got to love this - classic! :)

I so love these daughters of mine :)

 These two are so cute!

Lily is a Daddy's girl and Mike is such an amazing Dad! I'm so thankful for him!

Fireworks!

 

I'm so grateful for my freedoms!

Hope everyone is having a good summer!

Sierra Smiles

It's been a crazy, stressful, painful week! But I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as the antibiotics work to bring down the swelling from infection in my face from a double root canal redo I had last Tuesday. Who knew mouth pain could be so painful!? - this was up there with childbirth! I have been barely making it! I'm feeling a little more pain as I type so I really really hope it's not coming back! The night after my root canal Sierra accidentally got punched in the stomach and then not 5 minutes later stung by a bee! She had a little of what looked like heat rash on her skin, but the next day it had grown so Mike took her to urgent care thinking it was an allergic reaction - it was - to strep! That was totally unexpected - she'd barely been coughing a little in her sleep for a couple of nights! So with my pain & infection and hers she and I have been on a crazy medicine schedule to get better. She's had a good attitude and energy level all along (aside from feverish moments at first) and seems to be completely better now, but I just started feeling more like myself again today. I hope it sticks. We have a birthday party for my big seven year old on Saturday!

Anyway, looking through our photos from this month there were so many cute ones of my baby girl, including her smiling through her bee sting so I thought I'd dedicate a post to her. I will do a birthday one for Lily after her party.

Here's my smiling sweet Sierra! -with a bee sting....

 it was a big red lump under there so she's a trooper!

 Did her hair up in french braids while she was on the tail end of her fever.
She hardly ever lets me do her hair & she looked so cute!

 Bringing me a flower. I love these - she is such a beauty!!

With one of her first drawings that actually look like something!

Isn't it awesome!? (This is Pirate girl with her treasure map)

 (talking with Grandma Kathy on the way to the lake in the car)

So proud of my silly, smart, sweet little girl!