HOT! HOT! HOT! Weather!

Wow it was such a hot hot week here. It was in the 100's all week. We have had such a mild summer that is was such a shock to have such warm weather. We have been checking the weather all week for this weeks family reunion and guess what cool weather and stormy. Isn't that they way it works. You plan something and you have bad weather you don't plan and you have good weather. It is kind of like when I wash my car it seems to rain or we are out late and get bugs all over it or something like that. I am hoping it will all work out. Maybe the cooler weather will be nice for everything we are doing.

O.k. enough about the weather I guess. Both the kids had their soccer games canceled because of the hot weather. They were both sad but 102 or hotter they cancel. Sorry back to weather again. O.k. one last note on the weather. It was suppose to be 107 or so on Friday so we had planned on going down to Hermiston to the aquatic center with Chelsie and some friends. Just before we left it started to storm poured down rain and thunder and lighting. They will close the pool if there is lighting. So we decided to stay home and of course it stopped about about an hour or so later but it cooled if off 10 -15 degrees. So we will go another day.

Ryan brought home our new couch we order for the front room. It is cocoa brown color and a treated leather. It is suppose to be better than leather because you don't have to treat it you can just wipe it off. We will see how it holds up. Anything is better than that dumb dry clean only Pier one couch we have had for 7 or 8 years. It was a pretty couch but when they said dry clean they meant you can't clean it. So after 7 or 8 years or snotty noses, coloring on it and dirty hands it was time for a new one.

We decided yesterday to have a relaxing Saturday. So we rented Rockie 1 and 2 and the bridge to Tarabetha(sp). We went and cleaned the church at 8am. We took the boat with us and I practiced backing the boat in a stall. Trying to get use to how to back a boat in. Who thought that would be so hard I finally got it I think. We will see once I get out there and do it for really. I thought we were going to watch movies all day and then go swimming, Ryan thought we were going to go swimming and then watch movies. So I watched movies and they went swimming and then they watched movies and I went out with some girls from church. It was fun we went out to dinner at Red Robin. It was a nice and relaxing day!!

I don't know if I told you already or not but Carter thinks he is old enough to give up his nap. He has been such an easy kid to put to bed or down for a nap. So this was such a shock. On Monday it was just like something snapped and he decided he was done. I put him down and then went out to put the ladder in the pool and help the kids get set up out outside. Cole then came into get a towel before he got in and Carter had made a mess he said in my bath room. So I come up stairs and guess what toilet paper and water every where and everything pulled out of the drawers. I spent 2 hours putting him back in when he would get up finally he was asleep. Then an hour later Kamden went in the house screaming and crying up the stairs and woke Cater up. I was so upset. So then it was bed time and I spent 2 1/2 hours putting him back in bed. Then I fell asleep and the two kids came in and said Carter was up playing. I at this point didn't care when he was tired he would go to sleep. So at 11 he came in my room and laid down on the floor and went to sleep finally. So for the next two day he did the same thing at nap time. I spent along time putting him back in his room after getting up. So by Thursday I decide he didn't have to have a nap and so he now seems to go to bed at 7pm because he is so tired. Cole gave up his nap at about 2 1/2 but that was more because I was to busy to lay him down. Now I really want Carter to take a nap and he doesn't so maybe it is payback. Then I have Kamden who will some days go put herself to bed because she is so tired. You think you have one child figured out and then you figure out that each child is different. What works for one doesn't work for another. I guess that is when you ask you friend, family and mom what to do? So if anyone has a suggestion I would be happy to hear it.

I am so excited for the family reunion. We will see most of you soon. I hope everyone travels safely.