our "eye" week....

Livvie got a wooden puzzle thrown at her eye this week, and it left quite a mark...it's been sore for her, but it's getting better....see?



Avery's glasses came in the mail yesterday! She has been so excited to finally get them!

Here is the "before" that she requested me take... (sorry it's blurry...)




And, the "afters"....



Isn't she just a cutie?!?!


We have always wanted our very own "Bernice, Bernice"

can i get a witness

today, one of the most bizarre things happened to me, well, in front of me.

i took the girls to the McD's drive thru for lunch during a very busy traffic time. I pulled in off the busy street, and had to stop because a blue van was backing up. (see the bright purple ME - my van, and the dark purple CRAZY VAN as the van backing up)

well, the van kept backing up and backing up, and then it passed me, and i realized there was NO ONE DRIVING THE VAN!!!! i'm totally serious...no one was driving this van that was going backwards out of the McD's parking lot and into one of the busiest streets in our town.

CRAZY VAN continues to go in reverse (because, really, who was going to put the breaks on), and goes over the flower beds, jumps the curb (SEE red dots on map) and then proceeds to go into oncoming traffic!

what am i doing? well, I am sitting in my van, jaw dropped on the floor responding to Avery's question "Mommy...why isn't there anyone driving that car?"!

So, CRAZY VAN then gets super lucky. For some strange reason, the steering wheel must have been at an angle (or jumping the curbs jarred it) because instead of continuing to go out into traffic, the van ended up turning onto a side street and eventually hitting a poor innocent parked car.


I pulled up to the door, and saw another man running inside. i said, "did you just SEE that?" He said yes, and then went inside and I'm guessing yelled to the whole restaurant that someone forgot to put their van in PARK and it rolled away...3 20 something guys ran out...yup, don't know why 3 young guys were in a van, but whatever!

no one was hurt, except the poor flowers that were driven over. how fortunate, huh? this could have been a huge accident!

seriously, one of the craziest things i have ever seen....

a trip to the....

eye doctor.

Avery and I were driving around last night and I randomly asked her to read me signs that we drove past. She said a couple things were "fuzzy", and that made me think that she probably should take a trip to the eye doctor.

that was today.

so, after a bit of this,


and some of this,
it has been determined that yes, indeed, Avery will need a pair of these...


right now, it's only for seeing far distances which would be school. She is so very excited about getting glasses...she's been talking about it ALL day... A-L-L day... We'll have to pick out a pair soon, get them ordered, and try to get her used to them before school starts on August 19th (yes, August 19th...grrrr)

too cool for the pool!

We have been living (or what it seems) at the pool this week and last! The girls have been having a lot of fun playing, and the more time at the pool, the less time at home fighting!!!!














Most days we meet friends there, and today was no different! Here is Liv and her friend Kaylee having a little water break!

more pool fun!

our family has been spending a lot of time at the pool in the last couple of days!
Here are some photos from tonight!