After going to the temple, everyday life just seems so UN-blogworthy. But life goes on and our family has had some more big accomplishments and fun things happening that before all of this would have amounted to their own posts but alas, here we are with a month of no posts at all. So they all get their glory in one giant post I like to call "Blog Spectacular". Here it is:
Bryce can Swim!!! No pics yet but we have been going to the pool in our complex everyday just about and he will totally go under water and he swims with the aid of his tube. Anyone who knows Bryce will realize what a big accomplishment this is since only a few months ago he wouldn't even lay down in the bath tub! Way to go Bryce!
We got a BED!!! We have been sleeping on a raised aero bed since we moved in February
and we finally got a queen size bed that is oh so heavenly after having me, Eric, Charlie and Kensie sleeping on the air mattress. Eric can sit down on the bed without me flying off the other side. It's probably the most exciting thing ever!
Our Aunt Becca came to visit again and she stayed at our house. The kids LOVED it and this morning Bryce came into my room crying because aunt Becca had left and he missed her! While she was here we drove to Fresno to have a surprise 50th birthday party for our parents who were both turning 50 this summer. It was so much fun and we actually pulled off the surprise! Our whole family was together for about 2 days and I think everyone had a really good time! Then we came back home and hung out for another day with Becca. We went to shipwreck park, powell's sweet shop, and Cherry on Top yogurt shop. It's always fun to have becca around.
I am learning to cut hair to help cut costs of running a family that grows hair and requires maintenance. My mom gave me a set of hair clippers and attatchments and stuff. It even came with a cape and a training dvd. It showed you how to do all the latest hair styles with your new clippers. "The Flat top" and "the mushroom bowl cut" to name a few! hahaha it was copyrighted in 1990 so I guess those were the "latest"! anyway I practiced on Bryce's hair because I figured if I messed his hair up it wouldn't matter that much. It turned out as well as any other hair cut he's ever had so I was pleased. Then I moved on to Eric's hair and I was seriously almost finished when I decided to do a technique they showed on the training dvd that you comb the hair up and then use the clippers to trim it down. I kind of goofed in the home stretch and poor eric ended up with a little botched up spot right on the very front of his hair! I ended up having to shave it so you wouldn't see the "hole". Eric has never had his head shaved in his whole life and I totally started crying I felt so bad! He says he doesn't mind it but I feel really bad! Sorry Babe! Better luck next time I guess! hahaha
The blogger website isn't loading my pictures for some reason but you can view our summer in pictorial form on my facebook photo albums. Happy viewing!
Last Night we decided to go to Fall Flicks in Central Park here in Laguna Niguel. They showed Curious George. It's Free and it was so much fun! It's right around the corner from us so it didn't take long to get there. We made Hot chocolate and took cookies and blankets. We put on our jammies and went and sat on the grass in the amphitheater and enjoyed a fun family activity. I think everyone had a really fun time. I have very fond memories of going to the drive-in when I was little and I figure this is the closest thing we have to that these days. It makes me feel like a good mom when I take my family out to do fun things and hopefully create good memories for them. Maybe it'll cancel out all those memories they have of me going nuts.
