Catching up on the last few weeks

I hadn't realized that it's been so long... I'd like to say I have just been busy (which is actually true) but more likely, I'm just on the lazy side. SO, sorry. On to the news!

We had my parents here for the Fourth of July weekend, which was great. It's especially great for me, because the kids spend all their time with Grandma and Grandpa, that I just sort of drift along in this dreamy child-free daze. I sometimes lose my temper with my mother, I'm ashamed to say. This is my problem, not hers, I know - my problem that I allow myself to be bugged and annoyed, and not my mother's problem, because she's usually just being herself and not doing anything wrong. I have great hopes that someday I will grow up (Maturity is a social disease that I somehow have not caught), but in the mean time, my mother puts up with me like an angel. She often reminds me that she feels the same way about me that I do about my children, which is a powerful rejoinder. We always have things to learn from our parents, don't we? 

Anyway, we took my parents on a trip on the Heber Creeper, and I'm not sure who had more fun, Lear or my father. I didn't have a good time, because I was having a terrible allergy attack the whole time - although it went away when we were driving the Alpine Loop. Then it came back as soon as we got home. 

After my parents left, we had about five days of normalcy, then we went camping - kids get DIRTY when camping! I knew it was going to happen, but I wasn't ready for the grand scale of it all. Dang! It's a good time they had fun getting dirty, because I'm not sure all the soaking and scrubbing were worth it otherwise. We had a big group there - Nana, Papa, Kevin and Shari, Karen and Grams, Devin and Kelly, and us. We took up two campsites. We met a fun family there with a couple kids that Lear and Ella had a blast playing with in the little stream that went by the campsite. We saw some deer go through the camp, and I personally enjoyed all the wildflowers - especially wild columbine, which I can't grow at home for some reason. (I've tried a couple times, but they always die.)

Since then, Cory has gone to a four-ten-hour-day work week. I think he's had a harder time than he thought, because he's going to work very early in the mornings so he won't have to work later at night. Having Mondays off will be good, though - I hope good enough to make up for the early mornings and long days. 

Ella quote: "Sunbee! Sunbee! Jeeja wammee, sunbee!"