A Little Boy Lives Here.....

The other night I walked into the living room to find this.....



Melts my heart!

Father's Day Recap

We celebrated Father's Day all weekend around here. Mike and I began on Friday with a Dinner and Movie date. We saw Hangover II which Mike has been dying to see and we had a really yummy dinner at Morgan's Chop House. After the movie we met some friends for drinks and got home after midnight, just staying up after 10 pm around here is a big accomplishment for us so we felt like such night owls!

Mike opened presents all weekend long! He got some clothes (khaki pants without pleats, whoohoo), a nook, and a some new running shoes. Olivia and Peter went with me to pick out all of Mike's presents and that was quite a production in and of itself. Peter had an enormous temper tantrum at the bookstore and Olivia pulled down an entire rack of clothes at Gap. I think we were coming close to being kicked out of the mall. Olivia helped pick out the color of Mike's new shoes while Peter insisted we get him "cowdoy boots" and then had another temper tantrum when I informed him that we would not be getting him "cowdoy boots". They didn't even have cowboy boots at the store so I'm not sure where this came from.



On Saturday we celebrated with a Father's Day feast--beef tenderloin, asparagus, corn-on-the-cob, mashed potatoes, and a home made red velvet cake. Baking is definitely not one of my gifts but at least this time the cake came out of the pan.

On Sunday we headed to the beach for the day. The weather was beautiful and we're so lucky to live close enough to the beach to be able to take a quick trip for the day. Olivia played in the water a bit, attempted to eat sand by the handful, and then cuddled up for a nap. Peter was super excited to go to the beach and then refused to go into the water for the first several hours we were there. He loved dragging the body board around on it's cord. Mike pulled Peter around on the board for a bit and he loved it!

 

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! Hope you all enjoyed your special day!

Time to Vote

You can help! This summer Vivint is giving away $1.25 million to local charities. Here are the details:
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-The charity with the most overall votes will win $250,000, each of the top charities in each of the 5 regions will win $100,000. Team Sanfilippo is in the East region, right now we're number 2.
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Make it Work

alternately titled: You Might Be A Redneck If....
alternately titled: The Best $10 I've spent all year.....

I just can't make up my mind which title I like the best :)

Two years ago this month Olivia learned to swim in the pool at the apartment complex while we were staying while we waited for Olivia to be admitted to the hospital for her transplant. Here's the video that I posted on the blog then.



Things now are very different. It's not safe for me to take both kids to the pool here in our neighborhood by myself. Olivia needs constant care and supervision and I can't provide that when I'm by myself with both kids. So we're "making it work". I bought one of those tacky $10 plastic pools at Wal-Mart last week and the kids LOVE it. By far the best $10 I've spent all year. It's also so much easier to turn on the hose in the back yard than it is to pack up and head to the pool. An added benefit is that I have absolutely no shame in letting my kids run around the back yard wearing swim diapers, the neighborhood pool requires more substantial attire. We are still very careful about Olivia's sun exposure. Peter saw Olivia wearing a hat and insisted on one of his own. This is the only one that fit (thanks cousins Braden and Hunter).