8/16/11 - Planning Machine!

Today was a pretty typical day. Work actually flew by, it was crazy. I got a ton of stuff done. And, spent lunch getting upset with Christian and his dumb work. We're trying to reschedule our family pictures (thanks to the lip incident, followed by the eye incident), and weekends just will not work out. But, his work will not let him take any time off. He can't take a day off until September 19th! Seriously?!? Dumb. But, I think they'll let him leave a LITTLE early, or come in early to get his hours in, one day so I'm hoping we can fit them in next week. I'd hate to wait much longer...they aren't really Amelia's 1 year photo's any more then...so, I'm working on that.

We have so many exciting things coming up that we've been working on planning. Next week a church by our house is putting on a free family festival, the last one we went to was SO fun, so we're excited. Then, we're going to the Renaissance Festival next weekend, YAY! Then, the next weekend I have a couple online friends coming into town for a big family trip to the Mall of America and the State Fair. Then, we'll be hitting up the Apple Orchard and a day trip to Stillwater in September. October we'll be going on our annual trip to Sever's Corn Maze and I'm off to Chicago for a mom's vacation with some more online friends. So many fun, exciting things coming up. I just can't wait for any of it!

Tonight was pretty low key. Christian's truck went into the shop today, for a couple days. Luckily the other guys insurance is paying for a rental car, so he still has transportation. His work gave everybody a store credit to get new work shoes, so I picked up the girls today while he went to buy those. We ate a quick dinner when he arrived home, and then some big storms rolled in. Lots of thunder and lighting and a complete downpour. Once it calmed down a little bit, we went to the garage so I could check out the "new car"...it's actually really nice. It's a Dodge Caliber, and I really like it. The girls spent a little time running in the rain and jumping in puddles. It was cute :)

Finally, it was time for a warm bath and bed. Olivia threw a fit tonight because there was no Dora. She got over it quickly though and was off to bed. I go back and forth. Maybe it would be good to get into a routine of watching that before bed...then we have something to "take away" when she misbehaves. But, I also don't want her to become obsessed with watching TV/Movies. I'm OK with a little bit, but not to the point where she demands it, or expects it. I don't know, we'll see.

Here are some pics of the girls, playing in the rain.