Our camera is broken, so no new pictures!! Sorry. But hopefully I will have some soon. It apparently wasn't working when we got to the lake, but then yesterday when we were backing the boat into our driveway (after driving 2 hours home from the lake) I saw that our camera was hanging by it's strap from the pole of the stair handle on the boat trailer. I think it's safe to say it is officially broken now.
School is over! I'm so super happy. Thursday we went to swim practice and rested. Friday we went to swim practice, packed and left for the lake. We had fun at the lake with all our cousins, we swam, went out on the boat, we ate, and then ate some more, went shopping, we saw Indiana Jones (which was kid of a let down). Charlotte had some sort of reaction (either poison ivy or a reaction from putting Tori's lip gloss all over her face and body on top of her sunscreen and then being in the sun for an hour or two "baking" it into her skin on Saturday). We had to give her Benadryl which knocked her OUT for about 3 hours solid. She is better now but had a pretty awful rash most of yesterday.
Sarah-Grace is swimming exceptionally well. Friday she swam the freestyle completely unassisted across the width of the pool 3 times!! Today she swam it the length of the pool twice. I am very proud and she is very proud of herself. It's amazing how quickly kids learn. Sarah-Grace and a friend will begin horseback riding lessons soon and so we went and checked out the first place we were "interviewing" today and then went and had them fitted for boots and helmets. We can't wait to begin buying them their pants, shirts and blazers - they are going to be adorable!! One of the horses was named Crash and my friend (whose little girl will be taking lessons with Sarah-Grace) said she didn't want her daughter on a horse named Crash!! I thought that was so funny. I've just suspected for a while that Charlotte will be a horse lover and today the riding instructor watching Charlotte look and interact with the horses said the same thing! If she was old enough to take lessons we would be in real trouble, but thankfully most places won't take them until they are 6.
My hydrangeas are finally blooming and so I've been cutting them all day and putting them all over the house (the den, the kitchen, the foyer, my room, my mom's room, the girls' rooms, and some for friends). I was on my last arrangement and I asked Tad to go and cut me 2 more blooms. The girls followed him out and Sarah-Grace remarked on her way to the bushes that we really need to be careful that we don't touch the poison ivy at the bottom of the deck stairs (yes these would be the ones I passed oh I don't know 7 or 8 times today)!! Ever since Tad informed me of Sarah-Grace's discovery I can't stop itching all over. I don't know if it's because I actually have poison ivy or because I think it could possibly have it. I will now probably be taking the Benadryl we bought for Charlotte!! AHHH...
Over the weekend a neighbor two doors down screamed a coyote away that was trying to jump her fence to get to her dog. I bought the girls' a night vision, motion sensor camera for the backyard a few months ago for Tad to set up. I was hoping we would you know get pictures of birds, rabbits, squirrels even maybe a deer that are very common to see in our neighborhood. Tad never had time to put it up, but tonight he was like a little kid getting that sucker set up in the back yard so he could possibly get a coyote picture. At least one of the cameras we own still works!! We might not have pictures of the girls over the next week, but we will of whatever creeps around our yard at night.
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