Daddy Night Camp

During a recent book club a few of the dads got together at our house to watch the kids. Let me just say a picture is worth a thousand words...

Stars and Stripes Forever

We celebrated July 4th in Driggs this year. We had a great time. We started the day with a home town parade (including really loud fire trucks that scared Harper to death). Finn loved waving his flag and catching the candy. We lit a few sparklers, which resulted in two burnt fingers. We barbecued and mountain biked in the rain. And when it was all said and done the kids slept right through the fireworks.

Seventh Heaven

Ms. Harper is seven months old and she really is a little slice of heaven. She is sweet, smiley and a ton of fun. This month she has really started to move. She rolls and scoots her way across the room, which has me nearly scared half to death. I was just starting to get a handle on having two kids and now having two that can move on their own is more than just a little frightening. Her major accomplishments this month are that she can feed herself a bottle, eat cereal puff and stand up holding on to things. She loves to lean as far forward in her car seat as she can and turn and watch her big brother. I can't believe how fast the time goes. It seems like just twenty months ago Finn was seven months old.

Just When I thought Everyone Sucked...

Today I was shocked when a kind stranger offered to "be my brake" as I took the two kiddies out of the shopping cart. I was at a local grocery store where for some reason the parking lot is on about a 45 degree slope. Just as I was trying to wedge the cart between the car that was parked ridiculously close my car and the passenger door, this kind man offered to keep my children from careening into the other side of the valley. It was so nice, that I thought to myself "good karma to you sir." Then he hopped into his Lexus and drove away and I thought, "It looks like you've already got it."

If it's not one...It's the other

And Two...Sort of

For the first year of Finn's life we took a monthly photo with the same bear in the same chair to track his growth and visually capture how he changed so quickly. After he turned one we slowed the photos down to twice a year and now that he's two, well I've been desperately trying to get the "two year" picture for three months now. This is what I've gotten so far...he might be three before we get a good picture.

If You Don't Look Good. We don't Look Good.

Because I couldn't decide if I should try braids or a pony tail and our regular stylist (Ms. Amy Karcher) has been out of town, we tried Cookie Cutters. And I must say that Vidal Sassoon may have more style, but they don't have cool car chairs and they don't give out suckers and balloons with every hair cut. Over all it was a big hit with Finn and I was only a little shocked when at the end he looked like he could try out for the latest boy band.