Summertime fun on HOT HOT HOT days

The temps have been well into the 100's this week here...so Catie, Meigan and Norah have been having some fun in our pool....

Sunday July 6th...Catie's BIG 8th Birthday

As is tradition in our home...on a person's birthday they get the Special Plate and whatever they want for breakfast....and Catie chose mint chocolate chip ice cream for her breakfast....she devoured that plate in record time....yes, that's right a plateful of icecream...

Here is Catie opening a special gift from Nana. It is a beautiful handpainted sarong from a woman my Mom knows in Aruba..she painted a dolphin on this special for Catie.

ahhh...paydirt! Harry Potter 7!! Catie is currently obsessed with the Harry Potter series. She's blown through books 1-3, and is 1/2 way through book 4. Nana and Grampa came through with books 5, 6 & 7 for birthday gifts... they also came through with a load of clothes and some $$ for Catie to spend at Target...

reading one of her birthday cards...

We went to Finnegan's for dinner...and the girls and I got a picture together...I'm always taking the pictures and there are hardly any of me and the girls (but I don't like to have my picture taken anways)... not sure what's up with Meigan's hair-do though...she's really into putting a lot of "things" in her hair these days...and this night was no exception...2 headbands, a ponytail holder and 2 barretts.....

not sure who the evil person was that put a cosmo infront of me though...naughty... :)

and here is the birthday girl enjoying an icecream with a candle...

Catie hasn't had her party yet...most of her friends were away over the 4th of July weekend...so we'll have her party in the next few weeks.

Saturday July 5th - Catie's last day of being 7

Catie wanted to get her ears pierced for her birthday this year...so on Saturday we went to have them done. She was really excited to do it, and once we walked into the place, she got a bit nervous. Then she saw these other girls older than her having their ears pierced and that helped...


here she is having the first ear done.......

the second ear being done...and on this one she was squeezing my hand SO hard.....

and here she is...all done...a big girl for sure now....and looking a bit in shock I think...

they hurt for a bit...but not a tear from her....what a trooper!

4th of July

The 4th of July was pretty low key for us....it was hot so we stayed swam in the pool and barbecued with some friends....

Here are Catie and Meig trying out the new fun float I got for 4th of July...we didn't go to the local fair or see fireworks...the kids stayed in the pool and the grownups were too lazy to get dressed and motivated to fight the crowds...so we watched them on TV...lame, I know... but we did go the next night to see the fireworks...