Friday, August 21, 2015

Random photos

My cool guy


Riley, very excited over some birthday presents, and money.  




Riley and Joshua, in their daily wrestling match.  


Riley, at the Swamp dogs game.  


This is one of Joshua's new things: he likes to take his blanket and dog out of his bed when he wakes up from a nap.  Then, he lays his blanket down in random spots whenever he wants to take a short rest.  


Going for a walk.


I swear, he wanted it on his head.  


Joshua's new trick.  The first time he did this, no one saw him climb up top.  Now that we're aware of what he can do, we're extra careful of him in the girls' room!










Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Riley Moon

I took this picture because right before this Riley looked at me and said "Mom, I look funny."  And then she laughed.  


I've resolved that there will always be something to talk about with Miss Moon's heart.  It's always going to be doing it's own thing, much like Miss Riley.  For now it all looks good.  Of course, it's still beating in reverse.  That was explained in more detail here: Miss Riley Keeps us on Our Toes.  

She had to wear a monitor again, and while her heart beats inefficiently, everything else about her heart looks good.  This time, Riley did not like wearing her monitor though.  Matter of fact, she rather hated it and asked over and OVER AGAIN if she could take it off.  

Monday, August 17, 2015

Lots of laughs in Dawsonville GA

Last month, I had the pleasure of hanging out with a friend from Italy.  Brittany has been mentioned many times on here, going back to our time in Italy.  She lives in the mountains of Georgia and on my way home from Grandpa Bob's, we stopped to hang out for a few days. 


Hanging out on the back porch.  That's Brittany snapping a pic of her son Ethan and my Joshua.  


Above: My second night there, Brittany, her husband and another friend and myself went to see Shania Twain in concert.  He had received the tickets free and passed them along to us.  I'm not a big Shania Twain fan but I must say that she put on a really fantastic show! She interacted with her audience a lot, which I love seeing.  

Paper Airplanes never seem to lose their magic.  That's Bella launching hers.



Somehow paper airplanes evolved into tug of war.  




Which evolved into dragging people around on the floor on the blanket.



The kids played non stop and played hard.  


The most fantastic tree house I've ever seen 
(which I blogged about before here: Ta-da).




It was a short visit, only a few days but it was so much fun catching up.  For myself and for the kids.  We ended up pulling out Sunday evening for a quiet drive home.  That was not what I got.  Instead I had torrential rainfall and slow moving traffic because I couldn't see.  The kids napped nearly the whole way because they were just done.