August 16 - 22

This week's highlights:

• We swam one last time at Andy & Rosie's.
• Brought a cake to Ross's work and celebrated his 40th birthday!
• Went to open house at South for Bella's 3rd grade class.
• Our new bed arrived!
• Bella's gymnastics class was only her!
• Bella had her first day of 3rd grade!
• Lilly and I played at Mom's with Nate and Eli.
• Ross and I went to my cousin Andy's, wedding.
• We went to Ikea and looked for bed frames and had lunch there!
• We went back to Mom's for dinner with Mom and the Blowers. 

Sunday - After church and Mcdonalds we went to Andy and Rosie's to swim. Lilly wasn't behaved that well and so it wasn't all that great, but it was good to see everyone. Bella ended up going to Julia's and spending the night since they were free and the girls wanted once last sleepover before school starts.

Monday - we laid off the tv for a while and did summer school work, cleaned Lilly's room, played with markers, moon sand, and the spirograph. We also played games.

Tuesday - More typical stuff in the morning. Made pancakes, got Lilly a bath and Bella a shower and did some summer school work. We also cleaned the girls bathroom. Mom came in the afternoon to take Bella to gymnastics while I took Lilly to South Elementary to represent the PTC during open house. Bella fell down the stairs, halfway only but on her back. She's OK, but sore. Ross came and got Lilly at the school and then took her to pick up Bella after gymastics. Bella turned out to to be the only one who showed up for class so she got one on one attention for the hour. Then I got home and we unpacked our new bed that had arrived. It's a Casper bed. We're hoping it works out as it seems to feel nice to lay on so far.

Wednesday - Busiest day ever! We baked a cake and went to the store to get balloons and wrapping paper and then we brought Ross his cake and his present from the kids and the balloons at work. That all wiped out most of the day. Julia came over to play for a bit, but then we had to go to Open house at school for Bella to meet Ms. Baltzell and Ms. Stewart, her teachers. Ross met us there and it was hot as usual. But thankfully her main class is air conditioned this year. Then Ross and Lilly went home, while Bella and I grabbed some Taco Bell and headed to church for Gospel Project. Thankfully we got to leave early from that and get home so she could have a rest time before heading to bed before her first day of school!

Thursday - Bella got up early and got a shower, and then got ready for school. We took some cute pictures of her before school and then Lilly joined in. She left for the bus stop on her own, but we ended up following her down there since Lilly decided to put shoes on. :) After she was off Lilly and I worked on cleaning the house up and playing and painting. Then in the afternoon we went to Dad's old house to get one of the shelving units. And then to the bank and the grocery store. Once home we cleaned off the shelves and put them up. Then Ross actually beat Bella home. She finally arrived around 4:50. Ross didn't feel well so he rested while the girls and I ate dinner and played. Julia came over for a bit and a bunny was found on our porch. The bunny didn't stay long though.. I think it was scared of us! Then it was bedtime as usual. Back into the routine!

Friday - Bella was off for her second day. After our breakfast Lilly and I went to Mom's so Lilly could play with Nate and Mom and I watched Eli and worked a little bit in the yard. It was a nice cool day for a change. The kids were good too. We left around 3 to be home for Bella, but Ross was already there because he stayed home from work. He wasn't feeling well early, but by afternoon he felt better. So in the evening Mom came and watched the kids and we were off to my cousin Andy's wedding. It was a nice wedding and we got to chat with some of the family, so that was good. And the girls got Wendy's and had a fun time with Mom. Bella even got to go to Flubs with Julia's family and used her own money to buy it. :)

Saturday - We went to Ikea in the morning to start looking at bedframes. We didn't have to skype today since Pat is on vacation with Gran Carthy. We ended up eating lunch at Ikea and came home with a few things we didn't know we needed. ;-) After that I took a nap and then Ross went to pick up our computer, which has been in the shop for a few weeks. The girls played and had baths/showers and then for dinner we went to Mom's and joined her and Melissa, Joe and the boys. It was fun and the kids were mostly behaved.