Sheet Tent!!!!!!

My kiddos made sheet tents this week! Emma, Lily, and the two kids I keep occasionally, grabbed every blanket, sheet, pillow they could find and made tents. They were tiny. You could barely lay under them. But they loved it. I let them stay up over night. Saturday morning, Neil and I get up and they showed Neil what they had made. I told Neil we needed to show them how to really make them. We have the perfect kitchen chairs to do it.

(Clearing away the old tent stuff, making way for the new. See Emma showing off her muscles? Either that or sniffing her armpit. Neither would surprise me. Silly Girl!)

So, we hopped up, and got busy. It was big enough we could all fit, and tall enough Lily could walk under it. They played under it all day,

and when bedtime rolled around, they begged to sleep under it.

So, I blew up our air mattress and put them to bed.

They slept really good until Emma woke up around midnight. She screamed and hollered at us for about 30 minutes, and no, it wasn't night terrors this time, just Emma not getting what she wanted. She woke Lily up, but I told Lily to go back to bed and she did, falling right to sleep. I told Emma not to get up again, and she was out like a light. They slept until I woke them up at 8:30 for church. They really liked it. It is gone now, because I have lived with it for 3 days, and I was sick of it, and two, because our poor puppies couldn't come in with them sleeping in the living room. They would have been all over them. So, my living room is much neater, and you can walk right through it again! They are now, NOT going to sleep, even though it's an hour and a half past their bedtime, but oh well. They are in bed. I'm sure after this week they will be begging for sleep. We have our VBS this week! It's at night and we won't get home until around 9 at the earliest. Neil and I are helping out, and I am so excited about it. It's gonna be a really great time!

Now, doesn't that make you want to get out your old sheets and drag your kitchen chairs into the living room? You know it does!

Summer has calmed down a lot, finally! I really don't have anything new to blog about, so I thought I would play around with some of my pictures. I thought they were cute, so I wanted share. We should be planning a vacation soon, so I will have some more pics then. We still haven't decided what to do yet, but I can't wait to have Neil off for a few days! And Neil and my 10 YEAR wedding anniversary is coming up, too! I can't believe it's been 10 years already. My mom is planning on keeping the girls for us, so maybe I can get her to take pictures of their adventures together. They sure have fun!

Anyway, here are the pics of the girlies. Hope you enjoy!

Miss Emma Di'Ann

Miss Lily Tianna

Like I said, we've been so busy this summer. A few weeks ago, Emma and Lily went to spend time with my mom and dad. They had a ball. They went through withdraws for a few days missing Grandma. The day after we brought them back home, Lily got into trouble, and she cried "That's why I wanted to stay with Grandma!" After I got over having my feelings hurt, we laughed pretty hard at that. Neil and I headed to Austin. We stopped in San Marcus first and hit up the huge outlet malls. We had a lot of fun, despite the heat. Even Neil got into the shopping mood. He bought several things for himself! Besides baseball, trips, and occasionally babysitting, we've also been going to the movies. Every Wednesday morning we get to go see an old movie. It's fun, cheap, and air conditioned! The girls love it! And when we get the chance we head to the pool. We also got to head to the lake this last weekend for the 4th. On Friday, Neil was mowing the grass when he walked in and said, "How about I take you and the girls to the lake and I set you up and go to work?" Ummm... ok, I was gonna clean house, but that sounded so much better. So, we packed up in about 30 minutes and headed out. Neil set up the tent and got us situated and headed to work. I took the girls down to the swimming area and we swam for hours. We actually ran into some friends of ours and the girls swam with their little girl. When they finally got tired and hungry we went back to the tent and had sandwiches. They were so bored after that, but the lake was soooooo busy, I told them we were staying put. So, we read books and talked until dark. The fireworks started around 9:45. They would have been great, but a house was in our way. We only saw the very high ones and the top of the short ones. But the girls really liked it. Neil showed back up around 11:00. He sat at the entryway to the lake for about 30 minutes. The traffic was so bad. His motorcycle was so hot by the time he got back to camp. The next day we went swimming again and then ate hot dogs. We headed home, cleaned up, went to town to eat, and spent the rest of the night waiting for the fireworks show to start up outside of town. It was so much better than the bigger show we usually go to. We parked right beside where we were sitting, and the show was right over head. So, no fighting crowds, no walking 30 minutes to get a good sit, and we were so close we were covered in debri! Neil and I loved it. Lily liked it, but she hid under her blanket every once in awhile. Emma hated it. She cried the whole time. She does not like the boom at all. But it was still a great show. By the time we got home, we were wiped out. We napped on Sunday after church, we did make it, just missed class, and then Monday was clean up day. It was a great weekend, and it makes me so ready for vacation!

When we stopped to make lunch, we found a spot with ducks. The girls were fascinated by them. I had to take a ton of pictures of them.

After we ate, we let the girls feed the ducks our leftovers. The ducks seemed pretty full. I'm sure they had a smorgusbord the night before!

Here's my handsome hubby cooking lunch and watching the girlies.

Neil and I pulled up our chairs and let the girls run around the park until it started to get dark. We were so tired. Can ya tell? Neil's such a goofball.

We all had matching shirts on. I tyed dyed them earlier last week. We were so cute, if I do say so myself. I kept wondering why we were getting such funny looks.
Emma and her daddy


Neil rubbing my feet, ain't I a lucky girl?

The Volunteer fire department were the ones who put the show on this year. They let the kids see the truck. Emma had no interest, but my little social bug wanted to check it out.

I can't remember why she was sad here. But it was too cute.

I was trying to get a picture of the girls, but they kept acting silly. Lily had just licked Emma's ear and Emma was pretty disgusted.

Here we go. Look at those red eyes! They were so tired!

Lily showing off her tying skills. She's getting so good. Oh, and she has 2 loose teeth! She is so excited! The tooth fairy better get ready for her!

And here is one of my favorite pictures of the fireworks. Neil had a lot of fun with my, I mean our, camera that night. He got tons of pictures. Which reminds me, we still need that tripod. I really gotta write that down. Keep forgetting! ;)

Catch up time!!!!

Sorry I've been MIA for so long. We have been incredibly busy. I made a list of things for us to do this summer, and we really didn't need that list. We have been going and going since the last school bell rang. Part of the reason we were so busy is baseball. Both the girls got to join in this year. Emma did Machine-pitch and Lily did T-ball. They both played so well. Neil and I were so proud of them. Emma played short stop. She was so good in this position. She really worked hard at stopping those balls. She even got her first baseball injury. She was up to bat, and the machine wasn't positioned right, and it nailed her in the knee. She tried so hard to continue playing, but she was hurt pretty good. So, she sat out the rest of that game. Neil says she's a true baseball player now. Lily played short stop, too! She did pretty good. She tagged -read:hit- all the runners as they ran by her. Regardless, that she never had the ball. I had to keep reminding her to not hit the other players, and you can only get them out when you had the ball. I think the last game she wasn't hitting them. :) She was so funny to watch. The first game, when she hit the ball, she took off and never stopped running. She didn't get that you could stop at the first base. She chased her team all the way to home plate. Anyway, they had a ball, and even got trophies at closing ceremonies. They were so proud of them! We had so much fun watching them, and we look forward to doing it again next year!

I ended up taking the girls pictures this year, I'm glad I did because we were out of town when they had them done with the team.

The girls ended up both being number 4. Too cute!

And we were lucky to have some family come watch the girls play.
Here are Cousin Cadence and Emma watching Lily play her game.