Forget Me Not: Busy Week

This week has been a non stop busy week, today is the first lazy day we have had. This summer we seem to be trying to make up for last summer of not doing anything. We have plans right up till Emme starts preschool. I still need to get going on planning Alex's first birthday party. I know it is hard to believe but next month he will be a year. Monday Stockton had a baseball game. So we brave the heat and went to watch him play. We got there a little late. Matt's parents and Stockton's parents were already there. Stockton did a great job. We saw him pitch and bat once. Sadly they lost but the girls loved watching the game. Emme was telling everyone that Stockton is her friend not her cousin. Though he is both. (He is Matt's cousin's son. So her second cousin) Everyone was yelling "Go Stock" Emme got mad and told everyone his name is Stockton. It was so cute how patient Stockton was with the girls taking time to wave to them and talk to them. Tuesday we took the girls to the splash park. The water was super cold even though it was hot. Alex loved crawling around and splashing as long as it didn't get too much in his face. Then we had to go check on Matt's parents house and get some stuff done at home. Wednesday was our big adventure of the week. We drove up to Deer Creek where Matt's parents are camping. The girls were excited to go boating. After everyone got into swim suits we headed out on the lake. Matt jumped into the lake first, followed by Emme and Livi. I got in last after getting a couple pictures. Emme had so much fun swimming around. We had to keep telling her not to swim so far away. Livi was a little more nervous about it and choose to stick close to mom or dad. We decided to go inner tubing. Emme want to swim some more but me and Livi want to inner tube. The kids loved going around the lake. Livi wanted to go faster. We took a break for Lunch. Alex had fun playing with Daddy's hat. He finally just fell asleep in Grandma's lap. Emme wanted to go swimming again because she wanted to be a mermaid and sing "Under the Sea". I am not sure how much of a mermaid you can be with a life jacket but we had so much fun letting her try. Poor Livi lost a earring to the lake. Livi and me decided to go inner tubing one last time before we ended our day at the lake. So Livi sat in my lap and off we went. Any time they would slow down she would yell "Go faster" She was loving it. It was so much fun. We hung around the trailer for a while and chatted making plans for next the boating trip. Alex got his second wind and had fun crawling around the trailer. The girls were sad when it was time to head home. We got home and had home made hamburgers. I told Matt I thought I might have got a little burnt because my shoulders were starting to hurt a bit. Later that night when I had a moment to check the damage. I had burned both of my legs from the knees down. Both my arms, and shoulder blades and any part that were not covered by my life jacket. I always seem to remember everyone else's sun block but for get mine.
Thursday became a day of errands and trying to get things in order for the next week. I had a doctor appt so I decided to take Livi with me as a bit of a mommy date. She was a little concerned as the did my blood pressure on my sun burn and they had to draw blood. She was a bit scared of my doctor. But she has always been shy. My doc told me everything looks great. I asked her where she wanted to go to lunch she wanted to go to Zupas. Probably for a chocolate strawberry. She had fun people watching and dancing to the music. She decided she wanted to go home and hang out with Daddy. Since I had to go run a couple more errands. She said missed Emme. When I got home they had been fighting. Matt was home mowing the lawn and taking care of the chickens. We finally got our first egg!
Next week Emme is going to be in the Draper day parade with Aspen. She is so excited. Hopefully she will be still after she has to go three times to a mini cheer camp.