July 2015

July was a pretty awesome month.

We spent 4th of July at the beach like we have in years past. This is probably one of my favorite holidays. We always trek up to Washington the weekend before to load up on the fun fireworks:)
Once we are the beach Andrew and Ben transform into little boys and begin blowing up anything they can get their hands on. One tradition in particular, they go to BiMart and pick out a plastic toy car, plane, boat or whatever. Then they come back to the house and go to their separate corners and "arm" their toy with as many explosives as they can.
Then we go into the backyard and take turn lighting them off. with the goal being to see whose in the most destroyed at the end. There is usually lots of running and screaming and hiding behind the house to avoid the shrapnel.
Once it got dark we lit off all the little Oregon fireworks for Dani and she LOVED them, but was not a big fan of the ones that made loud noses. So we put her to bed before we busted out the big ones.

This month I also stopped watching Timmy, and although I miss him, it has been so nice just being me and the girls. I have taken advantage of the extra freedom, and have gone to library story time, the zoo, the park, and saw the reptile man (Dani was so excited that she got to pet the King Python. Ew.)
Of course Allie just gets toted along on all these outings with very little say so it's a good thing she is a pretty chill baby.

I took Dani to see her first movie in the theater. We saw Inside out, which was super cute. I was concerned about how she would last since she usually keeps up a running commentary whenever we watch movies at home. But I bought her some popcorn and soda and she climbed up in my lap and sat their silently through the whole movie. Now every time we drive by the theater she yells "dats mommy daughter date!"

Allie has become quite the talker and is such a happy little baby. She rolled over for the first time the other night but has yet to do it again. She has gotten pretty good control of her head and likes to sit in her bumbo.

I have been playing Softball this summer for the 3rd year and it is one of the highlights of the summer. It's one of those things that is just for me and I love being able to get out and play and be active. We had our last game last night and I'm sad to be done and looking forward to next summer.
I have also stared taking classes to get my real estate license, basically so that I can be Andrew's personal realtor.
Speaking of...
Andrew is still looking for his next flip house. and sounds like they are close to getting another one. We will see, the market is so tough right now.