July In Photos

The first of the month, our 2 12-year-old nieces stayed with us a week and we had a blast, eating Jack In the Box tacos on the roof at 2am, making pasta with Rhett on Sunday afternoon, swimming, going to a movie, and making this Halloween costume:

Rod Kimble from Hot Rod

costume details HERE

Rhett and Aubree dancing, but Rhett made her fall on her face.

Playing until we drop, still holding a couple Cheetos Puffs in each hand

4th of July in Delta, UT

niece Emma (4)

Back to Highland on our way home.  Grandma took all the grand kids to TOY STORY 3 and it blew RJ's mind and was awesome.  His first movie in a theatre and he did great and was totally glued to the movie the whole time.  Magic of childhood. 

had a temporary mohawk for 2 days

continue to love treats.

where has July gone?  It's been fun and busy.  We had a visit from Rhett's parents, who graciously brought us a load of purple slate to pave our patio with...that's been my next project I need to do.  But Rhett is on OB next, and will have a little more time this month, so maybe he'll have a little time to help too.

First rotation of residency down!  Not as bad as I expected to have my husband work 80 hours a week.  It's always good to have low expectations, for example I'd been preparing to have a couple melt downs and at least one complete freak out.  But it was great, and it wasn't bad at all for me.  I think residency will be a lot better than med school, but I don't want to speak too soon.  We're enjoying things actually.

Archie

I went to pick up RJ from nursery Sunday and they handed me this paper.

I said: "Oh that's not his."

 Teacher: "Oh it's his, that what we call him."

I busted up laughing, because I thought it was funny, like they assign each kid a nickname.

Teacher: "We couldn't remember what you said, we were all like, "what did she say his name was?"

So I said thanks and left, and realized she got "Archie" from "R.J."  He's only 2, but I thought he could say his name pretty well so you could understand, but then I remembered they couldn't understand me.

I guess I need to enunciate better.

But in the mean time we've been calling him Archie.

Is Archie short for Archibald or something?

Here's what Archie's been up to.

I left the room for a few minutes, and he climbed up on the counter, grabbed the whole watermelon, plopped it on his lap, and went to town.  It was a mess.  He's even taken a stack of napkins and was soaking up the juice from the bottom of his crater he'd eaten.