Cow Appreciation Day!

When my neighbor Dawn came over and told me anyone that went to chick-fil-a dressed like a cow got a free meal I was all over it. Free meal and all I had to do was put on spots, ears, and eat more chicken signs? Sign me up.

I promised my sister I would post pictures so here they are. The dressing up part took longer than I thought, but we made it. Zeb, however, was not hot on the idea. Shocker. ;)

I look pretty sweet with the cow nose, ears, no make up, and frizzy hair. The nose makes my eyes look so close together that I look handicapped. Glamourous huh? At least the kids will remember how fun it was, let's at least hope so! Although we all look kind of solemn. GREAT picture.

When we got to the counter to order our food Claire says in her funny tone, "Do they have any hamburgers." She is s hoot.

Audrey got pretty hot in her costume. 110 degrees in that outfit, yikes. She was a trooper though!

Hallie kept telling me, "I don't like people laughing at me." I kept trying to tell her they weren't laughing at her, it was with her cause she looked so cute, but she wasn't buying it!

There were a ton of people that dressed up. The place was packed soon after we got there. My sister in law Jenn that lives in Virginia took her 4 kids dressed as cows. She was on the news and in the paper. How great is that? 

Good times.

Swim Time!

We went swimming today at a friends house. The girls had a blast and I even took Julia in for a bit. She loved the water. 

(Don't look at me in these pictures, just Julia. ;)

I LOVE this clip of the girls!

Secret?

I am writing to all you out there to let me in on a secret. We have no summer lessons, no school or places we really need to be, and yet I feel like I am going a million miles a minute at home.

Lately I have been feeling exhausted. I feel like I am never caught up on things. Just when something gets clean something else gets dirty. Just when the laundry is done, another load is waiting. I even have Megan here helping and yet I still find myself tired and behind on almost everything. 

So I guess I am asking all of you if you know a secret I don't? 

Is the difference between 3 and 4 kids that things never really get completely done, or am I missing something? Is it wrong for me to want my house looking the way I want it to? Or am I wiped out from the last 3 years of school?

All I know is I feel like I am drowning in all that needs to be done and need to come up for air. How do I do that?

HELP!

Leah

P.S. Here is a picture of the girls after a ward luau where they had their faces painted. They LOVED it!

Julia starting to giggle and boy is it cute. This was my attempt at getting a big smile out of her for all of you. Yeah, it didn't work so well. But one of these days I WILL get a cheeser for you!

Someone is Spoiled!

As you can tell Julia has been given lots of cuddles! Megan is great with her and loves to hold her. Julia doesn't mind the attention, in fact I'm beginning to think Julia prefers Megan. ;)

Last night Julia was fussy so I handed her to Megan while I got her bed ready. 

Suddenly the crying stopped. I walked right up to Julia, smiled and said, "I see how it is, you stop crying when Megan is holding you!" 

Julia's response? She smiled at me. It was hilarious. She just gave me a big open mouth grin. She is so adorable!

She knows what she wants....

Little miss Julia is such a sweetheart. She cracks me up with how particular she is. She knows exactly what she wants.

1. She will only take a binkie if she is in the sling (although now she prefers her fingers).

2. She has to sleep in the swing and prefers to be moving when she is awake. 

3. She does not like the car to be stopped and cries until it moves.

4. She wants to be on the sidewalk when going for a walk (she likes the bumps in the concrete) and will cry if I go on the road.

She is starting to talk like crazy. I couldn't hear the lesson on Sunday because she was talking so loud.  I love it!

She had her check up at 2 months and 2 weeks. She is 12 pounds 15 ounces (50th%tile) 23.5 inches (75th%tile) and her head is in the 90th%tile! She is growing like crazy and I just love her cheeks! 

Here are the girls at the spay park. My niece Megan came from Utah for six weeks and it is so great to have her here. We are able to do more fun things this summer since she is helping. 

Julia gets very serious when she starts sucking her fingers. She is too funny.

I Love my little pumpkin! 

For Real...

Zeb really is a lawyer. He was sworn in today at the Federal Court House in Dallas. It was awesome. 

When I met him at the office just before the ceremony I glanced at his name plaque outside his door.

It says, "Zeb Fish."

Zeb Fish. He's a lawyer.

School is behind us? 

Man it's crazy. Yipee!

BeSt BIrtHdAY eVeR!!!

The morning of my Birthday didn't start off too great. I was stressing about the house, feeling sad to be away from my family and friends, and trying to be positive. I ended up crying on the phone to Zeb. Well, being the sweet husband he is, he surprised me and took the afternoon off work. He called me while I was at Walmart trying to shop with 3 kids and a crying baby. He met me there are came to my rescue. So we got to spend the whole afternoon with him!!! He asked me what I wanted to do and I said I wanted to have a water balloon fight with the girls. So we went home and had a BLaSt in the backyard. 

The balloons were gone in about 2 minutes so we borrowed our neighbors slippin slide. I even joined the girls. No pictures though, they are incredibly scary.

It was so much fun to play WITH the girls. I don't do that enough. I loved every minute. 

After running through sprinklers and squirting each other with the hose we went inside. 

Claire said to me, "Usually big people's birthdays aren't very fun for us but this was GREAT!" Then we gave each other the thumbs up sign. ;) 

Zeb got the girls all ready and in their jammies then made dinner!

Our cute neighbor Brooke made a cake for me and the fam sang. After Zeb put the girls to bed we put a chick flick on, ate junk food and just relaxed. 

It WAS pretty great, Claire! Thanks to my sweet husband and wonderful girls. Pretty much the best birthday ever!