Happy late 4th

I know I am behind on here and for once it is not my fault!  I actually feel quite a bit of pressure, I owe Pops and America a Birthday tribute.  Our laptop got a virus or something yesterday so it is at a computer repair place right now and hopefully we'll get it back sometime next week.  So I'm going to save my Birthday tribute for Pops until it is back because it has all our pictures on it.  We do have a back-up hard drive somewhere so if it never does get fixed then I can just use that.  At any rate, Pops will get a Birthday tribute.

On July 4th I had women's Bible study at our house.  David camped out in the spare bedroom and worked on the worship service for Sunday.  There were only two other ladies that came but it was still a good time.  Everyone left a about eleven which was when the Maglotts rolled in with their daughter Eva.  They have had a lot going on lately so I offered to keep Eva sometime so they could go on a date and they had chosen Thursday for lunch.  Eva is a super easy kid to take care of.  She is quiet and very low-drama, my kind of girl, haha.  Haley had a great time following her around and handing her her cup or snack anytime she happened to put it down.  I made grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch and Haley and Eva split one.  I put Haley and Emy down for naps around noon and Eva played around in the den by herself.  She was such an easy kid, I hardly knew she was there.

At one the Maglotts came to pick up Eva.  David had already headed over to the Smith's to swim and I waited for the girls to wake up and then I joined him.  I actually ended up waking Emily because she was still out but Haley and I were all ready to go.  We swam over there for two hours or so and then headed out because the Smiths had family coming in for dinner.  There were some festivities over at the fairgrounds so we went over there to see what they had going on.  Most of the stuff set up were vendors selling crafts and stuff or people advertising their businesses.  There were a couple carnival type rides set up but they were pretty expensive and Haley never asked to go on them so we weren't going to force her.  Plus we are planning on going to an amusement park when we are in PA next week so I figure she can wait until then.

Probably Haley's favorite booth was set up a little ways away from everything and it was basically a coral filled with bubbles.  I'm not sure what kind of machinery these people were using but they had a huge tarp and a literal coral with bubbles in it.  We let Haley go in and play around even though we saw kids walking away super wet and gross.  We told her you only live once.  She was a bit timid at first but soon she was up to her head in bubbles, literally.  In fact she got some bubble in her eye and was not too happy so the fun kind of came to an abrupt halt.  Anyways, come to find out, these people were actually advertising that they would set up a bubble coral in your yard for a Birthday party or event.  WHAA?!  No offense to these people but it was the WORST idea ever.  Not to have a bubble coral, but to actually advertise having a bubble coral by using a bubble coral.  From a distance it seemed like such a fun idea, but once you walked up and saw all he mud around the tarp from the bubbles, witnessed how gross everyone's kids were getting, and then had to comfort your crying child with bubble in her eye, it just seemed like a disaster.  Plus the bubbles kind of smelled.  They should have had a big picture with smiling kids playing in it and then so many people would have signed up.  Anyways, after the bubbles, we headed out and went to Caldwells who had invited us for dinner.

Ben had grilled up some burgers and hot dogs and we brought ice cream and cones for dessert.  We all ate and then the girls went outside and played in their toddler pool they had set up in the front yard.  It was one of those pools with a slide and Haley was not content to just slide down.  Here, this video says it all:

After the pool and dessert it was starting to get late so we headed over to the hill next to Kroger supermarket to watch the fireworks.  All of our lawn chairs were still in the van which was at the shop so David brought some folding chairs.  Fortunately Lucy was scared of the fireworks and wanted to sit in Amanda's lap so Haley got to sit in her chair.  Emily fell asleep on our way there but she woke up a little into the show and then watched the rest of it.  It was probably because she was so tired, but she sat nicely and watched for almost all of it.  After the fireworks we came home and put the girls to bed, they were so tired.

My girls with Eva Maglott in the middle

As you can see, Emily had swiped her snack.  She ate all of her Cheerios, oops.

At one point Eva laid down and Haley thought she was playing a game so she started calling out 'morning!'  Eventually she got out her doctor's kit to diagnose.


Emily in her patriotic garb, Haley wore that outfit last year, haha

Not sure about the bubbles

Completely sure

What a great idea!...not.

Watching fireworks, it was all a blur to sleepy Emily

She sat with Daddy for a while

 

Watching the fireworks, she said 'ooh' and 'ahh' a lot, it was cute.

FRIDAY was Pop's Birthday!  As aforementioned, a Birthday tribute will be coming up when our laptop gets fixed!!  We slept in and then went to the gym to run.  David's back has really been bothering him so he did ran about halfway around and it was making it worse so he just walked and then went and paid our internet bill at AT&T down the road while I finished and showered.

After the gym we came home and had lunch and put the girls down for naps.  I don't really remember how long they slept but once they woke up we went to Wal-mart to pick up a couple things because we had company coming for dinner.  I have been wanting to paint our front door red so we went by Wal-mart's paint department and picked out some red spray paint.  I know spray paint sounds like a bad idea but we figured it would be easier and why not?  After Wal-mart we came home and started making dinner for our company.

We were having a couple over that I know from MOPS and that go to our old church.  They have two little girls, one who is almost four and a baby who is four months.  Haley loved playing with the older girl, Ellie Mae.  I don't think I ever heard them fight over anything the whole time, I was pretty impressed.  We had grilled chicken, roasted potatoes, and corn on the cob.  I made chocolate mousse for dessert because the husband is allergic to gluten and that was one of the only things I could think of without flour.  After dinner we played a game called 'Brass.'  This couple, their names are the Oglesbees are super into games.  To them, Settlers is like playing Apples to Apples.  They play games that last six hours, it's pretty crazy.  Anyways, I won Brass, only by three victory points though which is like winning Ticket to Ride by three points.  At that point it was 10pm.  Emily had gone to sleep at eight and Haley and Ellie Mae were watching Dora.  The Oglesbees were just sitting there looking like they weren't going to leave anytime soon.  I asked if they wanted to play another game and they immediately said yes, haha.  I put Haley to bed while they set up Settlers and Ellie Mae fell asleep on our bed.  John (the husband) won Settlers but I had nine victory points so it was close.  After that they left, it was just before midnight!

David wrote Saturday for me on the Ipad, excuse any errors, it is autocorrect's fault.
Saturday was a very productive day at the Canche casa.  We were planning on getting to bed early the night before so we could get an early start on painting the front door but that idea was busted when some friends came over for dinner and stayed super late. I think around midnight.  Anyway, we cut ourselves some slack and got up with the girls around eight or so.  We had decided to go with spray paint for the door because we figured it would be easier and probably dry faster.  Even so, the can said 20 minutes between coats, one hour dry to the touch, and twenty four hour cure time.  Haley requested pancakes for breakfast, but as soon as that was over, we got going with the door project.  Katelyn helped me pull it off the hinges and then I taped off the hole so our air conditioner wouldn't run endlessly, and taped off the door.  It was frustrating that it took so long, but I just remember hearing people who know how to paint saying that time spent in prep work pays off.  Katelyn showered and then out Emily down for a nap while she and Haley went to Walmart to pick up some corn.  Every year, Katelyn waits for corn to go on sale, buys like 50 ears, husks and boils it, and that is our corn for the year. I stayed to finish prepping but got interrupted by Emily who did not feel like going to sleep.  I held her for a little while and finally just stuck the iPad in there with her.  By the time Katelyn got home and got lunch together, I had the first coat on.  We ate lunch and then I stuck another coat on.  The babies went to sleep, and Katelyn started on the corn.  We saw that it looked like there were some spots that needed to be evened out and Katelyn thought she knew a better way than what I was doing. She was right.  We make a pretty good team.  I husked corn while she painted till she realized she was gonna run out of paint.  She had to run to Walmart again quick for one more can. The final coat went on around 3pm.  A far cry from 24 hrs from the time we planned to go to bed. We finished husking and Katelyn boiled it and cut it and bagged it and did all of that.  She got twenty-eight bags out of fifty ears, they were big ears of corn.  During hat time the girls woke up. I played with them until we started to get hungry.  I wanted to do a family date because I won't be seeing them for a while.  We decided to go to Jalapeño tree since the girls eat chips and tortillas there.  As soon as I asked Haley if she wanted to go eat chips, tortillas, rice, and beans, she said "and iced cream" because she knows they have an ice cream machine there. The girls were pretty good the whole time. Haley actually made it the whole meal without the iPad. We were basically sitting in the perfect spot to have kids. Close to a tv with baseball on it. After eating, Haley, Emily, and Katelyn had ice cream cones while I polished off a little container of warm honey they had brought for Katelyns tortillas.  I'm pretty sure I was about to pass out as we were leaving.  What's the best thing to do when this is your state? Well, hop behind the wheel and drive to work to operate some heavy machinery, of course! Haley was super excited to learn we were going to the airport.  Once we got the, however, she wanted nothing to do with the airplanes or the tractor (which she always asks me to draw together on her magna doodle), until Emily was gonna ride with me.  Even then, she indulged us with a few pictures but that's it.  After we fueled the airplane (I had a trip right after church Sunday) we put it away and headed home where we straight to bed.

Daddy introduced Haley to this

which led to this...

Playing together

 

Watching Daddy paint the door

Mommy and Emy

Painting

David took this...weird.

Panorama at Jalapeno Tree

Almost a full Panorama, another way to do family shots.

Haley helping daddy

David and the girls

 I'm going to try and finish catching up tomorrow, here are the isms:

Haleyism:
Haley has started asking randomly: "Mommy, do you know it?"  Um...what?

Emilyism:
Emily has gotten pretty good at crawling.