Three Lovelies: August 2010

So, it's been a little while, huh?

Weelllll, Jordans school and work schedule got pretty crazy there towards the end of last semester so the girls and I vamoosed to Mom and Dads in Washington... for about four weeks.
We're pretty lucky to have parents/grandparents that are willing to take us in for that amount of time, cuz lemme tell you, we can be a lot to take.
SO, I thought I'd give a little rundown of what in the world we were up to all those weeks. Buckle up, it's pretty wild...

We rode bikes whilst wearing sunglasses.
It was SUNNY while we were up there, I think it might have rained, lightly, once.

LaRue actually learned to ride her bike with no training wheels while we were up there. She picked it up SO fast. I guess she might be a little older than most kids, but we've never had a great driveway, or lived on a great street for bike riding, and my mom and dads street/driveway were PERFECT! And yes, in this picture her helmet is on backwards.

We ate toast!
And Adelaide injured herself almost every other day.

I finished up this little guy for my sweet nephew Tyler for his birthday.

I also made a little friend for my sweet nephew Quintens birthday, but can you believe I didn't get a picture?

The two older girls and I went on a picnic.
LaRue pointed out that we'd never actually gone on an honest to goodness picnic before, happy first picnic ladies!

We went on a carousel ride, ALL of us, even Grandma...

And even me and Auntie Kirsten!

If you read my moms blog you know that I kept busy by doing boatloads of puzzles, but I also passed some of the time by reading these - SO GOOD! Have you read them? If not, I'm inclined to say that you must. Thank you so much Michelle for giving them to me for my birthday, I don't get to read book three until next week, and I'm SO excited!

The girls did their best to drive me insane by insisting that they wanted to swim and slip n' slide.

We'd go through the whole production of getting them suited up,

And slathered in sunscreen,

And five minutes later, they were all done and ready to come back inside. Sheesh.
Be sure to take note of Matildas face in this picture, we do not have a great backyard and my parents do, so I did my darnedest to get them to make the most of it, but this was a very common scene.

As was this...

Oh, and while we're looking at Adelaide in a diaper, look at these wasp stings!
Wasps are the worst!
Adelaide got four stings all in one go!
And a week or two later Tillie got one too!
Harrumph!

The girls played all the Wii Fit they could squeeze in during Adelaides naps.
(Neither of them are good at the skateboarding game.
They are both, in fact, really, really bad at it.)