Making It: July Fourth Summer 2015

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

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!