Week in Review

Monday was my late night and Steve took the girls to Dairy Queen for dinner....nice daddy, lucky girls!
Wednesday Presley had summer gymnastics so Steve took her to that, he said there was a lot less people there and only 4 girls in class that night so perfect 'Presley' conditions! She did good and enjoyed it! Piper and I have started a tradition of going to El Mariachi for dinner when they are at gymnastics. Presley doesn't like eating there and Piper is so good when it is just the two of us! :)

Thursday we decided to take girls to Camp Dodge to watch the band Brother Trucker. They have a summer concert series, you can take your chairs, blankets, coolers and food. They sell food and there is plenty of room for kids to run around. Our kids were running in circles, wrestling each other on the ground, Piper decided that spitting was her new favorite thing (wtf?)...I'm sure all the people around us thought they were out of control.....hey, if they aren't fighting and screaming, we are mostly happy! We left there about 8 and then all hell broke loose. Presley completely lost her cool and when she gets mad or upset there is NO calming her down. So after screaming, kicking, name calling, crying she was sent to her room for the night when we got home.....which of course made her do all those things even more for even longer. ugh.

Friday night we decided to hang out and order pizza. My parents stopped by b/c they hadn't seen the girls in a couple weeks and missed them. So it was a good night in!

Saturday morning Steve was able to get some guys from work to help pour the concrete for his shed! Some cheap labor and a concrete truck in the cul-de-sac was the perfect way to start our morning (sorry to our neighbor who was having a garage sale!)

While they were doing that I took Presley and Piper to a nearby park to waste some time in the nice weather and then met my mom for lunch!  They were mostly good (95% good for Presley, 20% good for Piper). We came home and Piper went down for a nap and Presley and I headed to meet Samantha, Scott and Boston out on their boat! It's so close for us to go there and it was nice to hang out on the water. The weather was kinda cool and I knew that neither one of us would be getting in the water but it was still nice to hang out. Afterwards we had dinner at the marina, just the two of us! It was a good girls afternoon doing something a little different for us!

That night we had a first.....for about 10 minutes, the 4 of us sat on the couch, eating popcorn and watched (part of) Annie. Then Piper was done sitting still and it was time for her to go to bed.

Sunday morning they girls were up at 7 am....WHAT? WHY? So we got up and ready and decided we'd try to do brunch out....we went to 1908, they have a great patio, it is never busy and they have food the kids will eat! So it was a fairly successful brunch out! Then we made a Target run...now I have been to Target in over a month and Piper.....I have no idea how long it has been since all 4 of us have been into a store together...and we were reminded why we don't do it. Neither one wanted to sit in a cart (which is fine when it is Presley), Piper wants to run away and if you chase her, she thinks it's a game. Eventually she just wouldn't listen and wouldn't stay with us so I took her to the car (kicking and screaming for daddy down the aisles of Target) while Steve and Presley finished.

Sunday afternoon (while Piper was napping) we enjoyed the afternoon (do you feel sorry for Piper yet? she gets left out a lot but she is just NO fun! ha!). Presley got in her swimsuit and played in the babypool and sprinkler, I got my Kindle out and layed in the hammock and Steve hung out and did some yard work. The weather was toasty warm and we enjoyed the summer weather!