A Fire...and Some Rain...

Summer finally got here (we thought) so we decided to
do some tinfoil dinners in our little porch fireplace.

It was a nice sunny day...until it was a DOWNPOUR!

I tried to take a picture out the window (I was not going out there!)...this doesn't do it justice. Love the garbage can as a wind-blocker....trashy! (bwahahaha...I'm funny!)




Poor RJ was in charge of the fire and was drenched!

But...he did keep the fire going!
Doesn't he look excited?!

We were so proud of our completed dinner that we tried to take a self-timer pic...

And the camera was on continuous shooting mode...

took like 10 pictures....

which made for some funny pics of our surprised reaction!


Once the storm cleared up it was time for marshmallows...

Josh was in charge of holding Will...


...while Liz and I enjoyed our marshmallows!

Confession...

I love summer so much that I secretly like my first sunburn of the summer. Isn't that terrible?! I'm all for sunscreen...but something about feeling some heat really brings in the summer. I think I just like playing in the sun all day. I just HATE being cold, hate winter. Every year I tell RJ we should move somewhere warm....he says, "Send a postcard!"

On Monday I sat out on our patio reading. I really didn't think I was getting too much sun, just enjoying the warmth. But...I'm totally burned. And I was wearing long shorts and a tshirt so I have the weirdest lines!

RJ says I look like
"neapolitan ice cream...without the chocolate."

Pool!

Great day at the pool yesterday...My friends Angie and Hailey joined us. We're college friends, but now we're all teachers. We mentioned more than once yesterday how much we love our jobs...especially this time of year! ;)


Angie spent a good chunk of time...and many breaths... inflating Will's floaty!

Summer Fun!

More Calendar Fun....

Before I give you today's whopper, the last two days' gems were good ones:

"Appreciate what you have while working for what you want."

"Challenge yourself to not utter a negative comment for the next twenty-four hours."

Then we have:

"Ask your boss to name the Seven Dwarfs."

No, please don't. Awkward. Pretty sure your boss will not trust you with his/her next big project if you respond with, "Name the Seven Dwarfs."

Willoroo

Will and I had our first day at the pool...so fun! He loves the water and had a great time. I took the camera, but RJ says I look "creepy" in all the pictures. I tried to explain to him that girls don't wear makeup and do their hair for the pool...but he says I look creepy like I just went around and took pictures with random kids...? I assure you, I only took pictures with MY kid!

Anyway... he was asleep before long!


In other news....Will is crawling all over the place these days and is starting to pull himself up on furniture to stand. He has 8 teeth!!!

And...we're pretty sure he says, "Dizzy" now. He kept saying something when she came in the room, and it's the same word every time. Definitely has a z sound. RJ said now we won't be able to say he likes one of us better as we would if he had said, "Ma ma" or "Da da" first. Turns out Dizzy is the fave around here...and I'm not surprised!

Calendar Weirdness

Ok...remember my previous rants about my weird Life Little Instructions daily calendar? In short, they are usually little bits of wisdom.

BUT...sometimes they are SO weird. Today we have another gem:

"Offer to be a friend's chauffeur for an evening.
Dress the part."

What the....weird?!

I've heard of high school kids getting a parent/older sibling to chauffeur for prom, and I get that. But to just offer it to a friend randomly? Hum....