A sad day for Summerville

Our former church lost a great teenager yesterday in a car accident. Matt wrote a little about her here.

Night, night girlies!

Audrey was begging to get out of her room, but after her requests were ignored she just passed out on the floor.


After a long day, Julia needed a nap. I think she fell asleep in the middle of biting her fingernails.

Missing milestones

We've lived in Robertsdale for 19 days. Yesterday was the very FIRST time I'd been away from the girls. I was only gone for 1 hour and 15 minutes (VBS meeting) and OF COURSE during those 75 minutes that I was away I missed a milestone.

Audrey's first "use the potty" milestone!!!!!!!!!

Good for you, little Audrey! But next time please reach these milestones when Mommy is at home instead of on the rare occasions that I'm not with you. I'd appreciate it, thanks!

Today, seeing as how I've been going crazy at home, Matt sent me off to find somewhere to read and WIFI on my own. Since libraries are closed it took me awhile to find somewhere to do that. I'd been driving around Baldwin county for 1 hour (extremely frustrated by this time) only to receive a phone call informing me that I'd missed milestone #2.

pardon the pun

YAY!

I had another long and not so great day today. Although tonight has been pretty good! Right now I'm sitting on the patio and enjoying the rain. It's the perfect amount of rain (no storms for me THANK YOU!) AND I've got a good WIFI connection outside (we're not planning on paying for service until the fall when Matt needs reliable internet service for school) AND Matt cooked dinner tonight AND Matt cleaned up from dinner tonight AND the girls fell asleep pretty easily AND the breeze is making me a little chilly (what a refreshing change!) AND the armadillo must be hiding out from the rain b/c I've been out here for 45 minutes and heard nothing from him. YAY!


umm yeah - before I could hit 'publish' I heard Audrey crying, but I'm just going to let Matt deal with that too. Don't judge me.

:)

fun stuff

I've got the Dora panties.



I've got the ready and sort of willing 2 year old.



And as of today I'm (apparently) ready to start housebreaking her.

This & That Thursday

* Matt was gone from Tuesday morning until Wednesday night with a church event. It was a long 2 days! We visited a few playgrounds, couponed for some free body wash, and watched a good bit of Barney.

* My Dad called me Tuesday morning to ask me a favor. During the conversation he wound up asking me how things were going settling in. After my tearful response of, "Matt and the girls are doing ok, but I... I... I'mnotsogreat,butIcan'ttalkaboutit.Let'schangethesubject" Dad willingly changed the subject. I did, however, receive this delivery the next morning from him and Lisa. He said he had wanted to do something for me, but wasn't sure what to do from so far away. Thanks y'all!


* I keep losing things this week. The Barney DVD case wound up stuck under the couch, the mailbox key was washed and dried, and a few other little things have disappeared/reappeared. I feel like I can't focus on anything!

* My girls aren't the only ones that enjoyed the "Festival of Champions" Sunday night. A little girl from church enjoyed it so much her parents hosted a "Festival of Hayes" get together this morning. We all had a good time socializing with Hayes' family and friends!




* We have an armadillo that lives in the shrubbery in front of our apartments. Ick! Although, I'm glad I finally know what the rustling sound is!

Happy Thursday!

A nice Sunday afternoon

I had a pretty good day today. Yay!

As I dressed Audrey for church this morning, I pulled out a little hat that matched her outfit. I put it on her fully expecting her to yank the thing out immediately. I was so wrong! She loved it! She got annoyed with me when I took it off for a second to brush her hair, and she wound up wearing the hat the ENTIRE morning at church.

cutie!

After a nap (for everyone except Julia) we went to the "Festival of Champions." It was an outreach event sponsored by the Baldwin (county) Baptist Association. The afternoon was very hot, but we wound up all having a good time.

We jumped in the jumping house.



We got our faces painted.



We got offended when others passed us on the ladder up the slide.


We also popped lots of balloons (on purpose), played festivally games for candy, acquired a few new bracelets, ate hotdogs & popcorn & snow cones. WHEW!

But the girls weren't done yet. After the dinner break, we decided to go back and do some of our favorite things again...

We returned home just in time to bathe and then cuddle on the couch for a new episode of "Good Luck, Charlie" - our family's new favorite show.