The longest day, and other stuff

We've had our first day of summer and I was going to title that Days post, but then never wrote it. Oh well!

I woke up this morning to this:

 

That's my 40'something husband googling how to figure out Addie's rubix cube. A few minutes later and success!

Today was our dentist day. Always an adventure!

The littlest has 100% overbite. The middle has an ortho consult at the age of 7. And the biggest has a cavity. Wonderful. Never to be outdone, I need a root canal. It's not bothering me now, but sooner or later it will. Oooh to procrastinate or not! Another awesome thing is that we're 1 month away from paying off the boys braces. #orthodonticsforlife

More dental fun.  

I went last, and by that point D had tangled her slinky and was sad, so she laid on me and scowled while I got my teeth cleaned. I am a lucky lady. 

After the dentist we headed to the summer library program. We were 15 minutes late, but I thought it was an hour long program so it wouldn't matter too much. It turned out to be a 30 minute Where the Wild Things Are program, oops. 

 

Look at me, 3:00 and already got a blog in! The girls are doing their daily homework and journaling so I had a few minutes. 

As for yesterday, how about some baby awesomeness? Laura is laneys primary teacher and she sent me this. She so crazy!

 

Matt picked Dan up from D.C. on Friday and brought him to stay the weekend with us. Yesterday my whole crew took him back home via the temple. I picked Katie up after church and after my bishops meeting, and we went out for some church birthday visits. We had a great visit on a porch, met another lady quickly, found one had moved, and dropped two gifts/cards. Then I had about an hour and a half at home alone, which is always heavenly. Lex needed a neighbors address for thank you cards, and I hadn't gotten the mail in a long time, so I took a leisurely stroll and walked up to the white house on Pensive street, the one we've lived and loved in for the past 8 years with such a full heart. What a nice looking, happy home it's been for us. I'm so full of gratitude for it and all the blessings we've enjoyed here. 

 

Father's Day

Father's Day fun. Matt requested oatmeal and eggs, only we forgot the eggs in our fruit salad making haste. But that's a pretty breakfast, right? After 15 or so years, we finally got new plates and glasses and I love them!

 

Today was Stake Conference, which I don't totally get but I know we're not the only stake to do this. Matt and I took a long nap and then watched Beauty and the Beast while I made dinner. Matt requested chicken enchiladas, which are not my fav, but turned out pretty tasty. We also had Better than Shopping Cake which turned out super yummy. 

 

I had heard of a book that all men should read, so I bought that for Matt. I noticed I'm on a book buying kick and I haven't read any of the ones I've bought, soooo probs time to stop that. Anywbo. 

 

We also got him a pillow from IKEA. Can you tell we had fun shopping at ikea? Love that place. So he got two gifts he didn't even know he wanted. (:

 

Papa also got something he didn't know he wanted. A tshirt with all his grandpa names. Papa, gramps, grandpa, old man river, and my personal favorite, grumps. It fit and got there on time, so that's cool. 

I even managed to have the girls make some cards. Addie's 1st page - there were 4.   

Frankie's cute card, complete with a papa 'stache. 

 

And Delaney's scribble scrabble that she assured me was an actual picture. I forget what she said it was, but you know. 

 

We also played a rousing game of hide and seek and called our dad's. It's been a good day. 

Cade's birthday!

Today is Cade's birthday. we took him our traditional C chocolate chip pancake for breakfast. We're on a breakfast in bed kick (again) soooo. 

 

We went to our traditional Okada lunch. We had our traditions Frankie freak out over the fire. 

 

We got one of our favorite chefs and everyone had fun, even franks. 

I love watching their faces!

 

As is tradition, both the boys caught the shrimp, and only Frankie (maybe Addie?) did from the girl team. 

 

Lanes declined participation in the shrimp throwing. 

 Awkward happy birthday singing is also traditional of course. 

  

As is my "find any box to wrap this present" method of gift wrap. We sent a pictionary game to their apartment so they don't have to lug it home with them, but still wanted something for him to unwrap. 

 

We remembered the group pic after matt had already left to head back to work. :/

 

Some birthday grocery shopping, they took a birthday nap, followed by a birthday movie. I'd say that's a good birthday!

 

The rest of us enjoyed Alfredo with these cute guys. The girls love them and tease them and we had another great summer day!

 

Summmmmer!

Second day of Summer and we are loving it! That said, I know that September will bring with it the ready excitement of back to school. But for now, we're Summer'ing!

And the Finlayson's are in town! So many visitors! Since I haven't blogged in almost a month, Bubba came to town 2 weeks ago for Brenna's graduation.  we've had all our big kids come to visit and we've loved it!

Today we watched sweet Kora. We all took turns loving on her. We'll definitely be ready for some grandbabies in about 5 years. 

Since we had baby girl for the afternoon, we spent a cool few hours watching the end of Moana (c&a had never seen it!) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid from the library. It was 90 today and humid, so being indoors was pretty sweet.  

 

I had a funny and horrifying thing happen this morning. I stumbled during my run. This isn't the first time that's happened, but it is the first time I've actually fallen. Flat on my face.  I did manage to stop myself with my hands and knee, but then hit my side and ended flat on my stomach. I laid there for a minute like... did that really just happen?!? Then I rolled over, sat up, and had a good laugh. Of course that was after I quickly looked around to make sure no one had seen me. I felt that hot wash of shame and embarrassment, as soon as I hit the ground. Thankfully my pants weren't torn and despite some small scratches and a bruised knee, I'm all good. I even finished my run. As soon as I stood up I saw that I did have a little observer. A little girl across the street was staring at me. I tried to be cool and said "that was a good one, right?!" But she didn't say anything. Then Lauren walked up. I don't know if it was better or worse that I know her. Oh well! Frankie wanted me to show off my war wounds. 

 

We love babies!

Every single one of us!  

We also cleaned, listened to Harry Potter and went to the library this morning. 

 

And last night this happened!

 

I've been wanting to trim her hair forever and finally last night I said fuggedaboutit and got out the shears. After about 2 snips and examining her hair only to discover her hair was quite a bit shorter up front, she said I could do a bob. Hooray, my fav! It's longer on one side so it still needs to be fixed, but we think our 4th grader is pretty adorbs.