Joe's vacation week

Joe has been on vacation this week. So we have been spending it together as a family and it has been really nice. Officially his vacation started on Tuesday so we went to the new fishing spot we found with all of the kids.

Kaitlyn was showing Natalie how fun wading is...


Alyssa was a happy girl...


Wading turned into swimming...


CJ was looking for rocks...



Wednesday I don't think we did anything exciting. It was hot! I think we did some window shopping at Home Depot and that was about it.

Thursday was Joe's birthday. It was an even hotter day than Wednesday though. So we went out to breakfast and then had to go to DMV because Joe's license needed to be renewed. That of course took a while. When we got out of there we went to the auto parts store for a part that needed replacing on the car and came back home so the kids could got their socks and sneakers on and we could head over to the bowling alley. I get these kids bowl free coupons for each of them every week. They get to bowl two free games Monday through Friday. So the kids had fun bowling and then we went to the store to pick up something for dinner and came home to melt in the heat.

Friday Joe spent in the extreme heat (as it was the hottest day of the whole week) trying to replace the car part while I was inside dealing with a fussy baby from the heat and trying to do some cleaning. Joe also ended up putting the air conditioners in, something I didn't really want to have to do, but when it hit 94 degrees in here it just seemed to be needed. I was after all having a Pampered Chef party and we didn't want our guests to be super uncomfortable. We had a nice time with Pampered Chef and when it was done and everyone had left a very tired Alyssa had finally crashed. She looked like she was praying for cooler temperatures...


And then Saturday brought some slightly cooler, or more comfortable anyways, temperatures. Joe was still struggling to get the car fixed though so he was out there again working on it. So mostly we hung around the house...

CJ wanted to hold Alyssa and have his picture taken

I couldn't resist getting some shots of this new face that Alyssa makes all the time now. She's sucking on her bottom lip. I think it's soothing for her gums as I believe she is starting to teethe. I get such a kick out of this face though...




Joe has another two days of vacation and I'm not sure what that will bring for us. The weather has been a huge factor in our day to day plans. While it has been sunny all week until the weekend it has been HOT. We haven't really wanted to be out in the heat. I'm hoping tomorrow is cooler and we can do some letter boxing though.