Summer Update

Here we sit... roughly halfway through the year, and ... wow! I can barely keep up with the posting. I have been giving it some thought, because there has been much worth posting about, but while there has been some pictures to commemorate it, there has definitely been less documentation of our days these days than days before. The reason, I think, is because I think I have finally settled into my new job, and in my new job, I am finally in a position to just BE PRESENT AND IMMERSE in our life. I don't have to participate vicariously via phone calls, text messages or after hours recaps. I don't have to put an "*" after all of our plans. I don't worry during "downtime" thinking about how I will have to make up that downtime later, because my life is no longer measured by the billable hour (billable tenth of an hour, to be exact). Sure, I mean, I still work, I still miss some things. I probably keep the same amount of office hours as I did in my past job... past life, but those hours are manageable and my work life is measured based on my work, such that the hours I am not at work are truly mine in a way they never were, and thus I can finally be truly here, and apparently, when I am here, I don't want to be in front of a computer talking about what we do/did... I just kind of want to be doing... BUT... after all that... I DO still want to put some stuff here, because this is where I go to look and remember... and maybe some day Cooper and Daph will too. So, as I try to make a better effort at this mid-year mark... I will make an effort to recap where we are on our summer since we are about halfway through that...

So, recall The List.

In case you couldn't read our awesome illustrated list, I will recap it here, with status updates (and, where available, PICTURES!!!!):

1. Every day say "I love you". -- Status: ON TRACK!

2. Paint a rainbow picture -- Status: Completed on June 5, 2015

3. Get snowcones -- Status: Completed on July 5, 2015

4. Make crab legs at home --- Status: Completed on July 12, 2015

I may have gotten a bit carried away...

But he LOVED it... such fun... and still (slightly) cheaper than going out for seafood!

5. See the Minion movie -- Status: PLANNED FOR THIS WEEKEND

6. Go to the park and play baseball -- Status: TO BE COMPLETED (while we have both been to the park and played baseball, we need to put these two things together before I will consider this completed... I am a stickler)

7. Jump on the trampoline -- Status: TO BE COMPLETED (I have to get out there and jump to consider this completed... and it has be BUSY and HOT... so still "to do")

8. Paint toenails 10 different colors -- Status: 1/2 way there... would be completed if I were to add up the colors she painted my toes AND the colors I painted hers, but that feels like cheating...

my handiwork:

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and hers:

9. Go to the batting cages -- Status: Completed on July 11, 2015

He looks so old!!!!

Quite the cheering section:

10. Make cookies -- Status: Completed on June 26, 2015

11. Play putt putt golf -- Status: Completed on July 11, 2015

12. Go on at least 20 bike rides -- Status: IN PROGRESS... Need to focus on this now that we are in town and sticking around on the weekends!

13. Play volleyball -- Status: Completed on July 10, 2015

Seriously, this blow up ball and net was an AWESOME find:

14. Make brownies -- Status: Completed on June 13, 205

15. Make a fort out of blankets and camp underneath -- Status: Completed on June 27, 2015

16. go to Fiesta Texas -- Status: TO BE COMPLETED ????? (so hot... so crowded... so muggy)

17. See the Inside Out movie -- Status: Completed July 3, 2015

With Aunt Krishia the Great!

18. Watch Mickey Mouse -- Status: Completed... often

19. Do swim lessons -- Status: Completed as of tomorrow (will have done ALL of the private lessons and 2 weeks of group lessons!)

20. Go bowling -- Status: TO BE COMPLETED ???


Some of the other many things we have done that were not on the list, but were AMAZING include:

- Lose 3 teeth

(this only shows 2 of 3 gone...)

- Visit Mideival Times
- Visit Great Wolf Lodge
- See grandparents
- See Aunt Krishia
- Go to the neighborhood pool with SLIDES!
- See fireworks (and "do fireworks"... for about 5 seconds until I remember that even the colorful smoke ball things make me nervous)
- Art camp

- Tae Kwon Do
- Start piano lessons for Coop
- have umpteen slumber parties
- have umpteen faux slumber parties

Girl Time: When Did July Start Happening?

Hi beautiful girl. Can you believe it is JULY? JIGGA-WHA??? When and how did that happen.

This is how we feel about summer being halfway over:

But this is how we feel when we realize that means we STILL have another half of summer to go!

Get ready SUCKERS!!!!

Because after this nap, we are going to ROCK this second half of summer!

So let's take a deep breath, and get ready to GO GO GO!

(or, you know, we could totally take another nap if you want?)

Times - Good, Bad and Mideival

It has been so long since I started this post...  I honestly can't remember what the "bad" times were...  So....  

The good:

Cooper lost his first tooth!  While we were on a long weekend visiting a water park. When we got back, the tooth fairy came and it was veeeery exciting. 

And then in 5 days he lost another one!  And by lost, I mean lost!  It came out and was put in a bag on our table... Then was (as of today) never seen again. Pretty soon the tooth fairy will end up with an IOU unless there is a miraculous recovery!  So very fitting with how things are in our house!

There have been many slumber parties. And maybe some of that could fit the "bad" times category because these two are a bit naughty when they get together and there have been MANY last chances. MANY. 

But really... This "bad" is the best. They are adorable and I can't get too upset when daph gets out of bed for the thousandth time because she wants to tell me she loves me. Again. 

And now for the Mideival Times:

Highly recommended way to spend Father's Day. 

And we continue checking things off the list....

And ... three(?) weeks after I loaded the first photo for this post on blogger, this most recent weekend's pictures....

My absolute favorites in the world. 

More to come ... You know, once we find that tooth!