The happenings lately

Quinn came to visit us a couple weekends ago. It was so great to see her and spend time with her. She was a huge help to us especially on Friday when we had a little medical scare with Preston, and she watched the kids since I had to work at the same time as Nick and then later let me go grocery shopping all alone and watched the kids even longer. She and I had some great heart to heart conversations and she completely doted all of her attention on the kids and let them play games on her new phone. They loved all the attention. Ashleigh, especially was so sad when Quinn went home...it was so sweet and so sad.

Ashleigh doing Quinn's hair for her. :-)

Later Quinn put some make up on Ash. Look at her long eye lashes. I never realized they were so long.

Nick got a new front license plate. It's a black "Don't tread on Me" emblem. Looks pretty good! :-)

We've been telling Ash for a few months that we would get her a new bike. We kept putting it off, but finally her old bike's chain broke and she couldn't ride it anymore so off we went to Toys R us to get her a new bike. I had $15 in gift cards, yay, which helped with the cost of the bigger bikes. While we were there we was Irene from the latest Biggest Loser (she was in the final 3). I was a chicken and didn't ask her for a picture or autograph...but we did follow her for a few minutes in our cars since we both left the store at the same time. ;-)

Ash took the following pictures

We celebrated Independence day on Sunday rather than Monday with our neighbors who were having a big bbq party. The neighbors and I had to work early on Tuesday morning so we didn't see the point in staying up late Monday night doing fireworks only to get up early on Tuesday. It worked out really well and we had a lot of fun!

Nick made a little stand for our fireworks. It worked really well, but then the neighbors and Nick decided to put their big fireworks together so it would be a bigger display for us all to enjoy.

The kids really enjoyed themselves. It was fun watching them light their little fireworks and then run really fast away. Preston especially was hilarious to watch!

This one was Preston's firework...it looked like a silver mushroom but it had the best display and lasted so much longer than other ones that we bought. I think we all liked that one the most.

On the 4th we were busy doing all sorts of random things around the house and Ashleigh asked for cinnamon rolls so she and I set out to make some. She was a big help and only 5 hours later they were done. ya know...since we have to wait for the dough to rise, twice. lol...

On Tuesday we got to watch Bridget and Finley for a few hours. Finley always keeps me on my toes and just makes me smile so much. Ashleigh and Bridget played so well together and they had fun like always. It's always a joy to watch them.