Lemonade Stand

The girls have been begging to do a lemonade stand this summer.  So today was the day

Caleb showing Isaac the best way to hold the sign

Isaac was the official sign-holder

Waiting for their first customer

Waving

Chanting

Jumping

And break-time

It was HOT!  They lasted a little over an hour and made around $7.00  And now they want to do it again tomorrow!

Surgery, Shampoo, and Slippers

Thanks so much for all your prayers, cards, visits, and well wishes.  Abby loved reading all the comments on her blog!  She is recovering very well.  God has been so good to us!
Feeling a bit nervous before surgery

4 and 1/2 hours later.  Lots of tubes and cords and beeps and bandages.


Many more hours later.  Ordering "room service."  Definitely the best part of our hospital experience.  Gold Star Chili, Larosa's Pizza, Starbucks Coffee - right to our room!


Denise made this sign for Abby's room :)  It made me smile.

5 days in hospital  = serious bed head (and this was her "good" side - on day 3 :)

After a bottle of baby shampoo, salon hair conditioner, help from a friend, detangler spray, a lot of resistance (from her), a lot of patience (from me), we ended up with this :)

Feeling better and taking a stroll to the cafeteria


Finally home and feeling much better.  How could you not feel better with those fluffy slippers!  Thanks again for all your prayers!

My News (title borrowed from Abby's Blog :)

Thanks so much your prayers, phone calls, and all the comments on Abby's Blog.  Her Ureteral Reimplantation Surgery surgery is scheduled for 7:45am July 8th.  Grammy is keeping our other kids tonight so Abby and I spent the afternoon shopping.
Her favorite store. 

 

 and some new PJ's

Seriously, mom?  In the parking lot?

When our feet finally got tired of shopping, we stopped for dinner at Panera Bread


Yum!



Carl met us there


Then we ended the day at the Dairy Whip

Did I mention "Yum?"

 

Please keep us in your prayers!

Julie's Baby Shower

I can't wait to meet my new nephew in about a month!  Here is my attempt at a mobile for him.
Scrapbook paper.

 Google images for modern giraffe, etc.  Trace.  Cut.

 Lots and lots of circles cut with Emily's cricut.  (Thanks Emily!)

 Helping hands.

Chain links.

Ta-da!


She had told me about her bedding but I hadn't seen it yet so I was hoping it would match ok.
Sherissa and Kristina hosted a beautiful shower for her.
Grandma waiting for her 8th grandbaby.


 She's my favorite friend & sister!


Isn't she so adorable!

Cousins.

Gifts.

Abby.

Lisa & Brooklyn

Yay!  It matched!

And she liked it :)



Hopefully, Baby will too!

A Race and a Reunion

Steph and I ran the Veterans 5k in Mason a couple weeks ago.  She's my BFF from far away in Idaho and was in town for a wedding.  As you may know, Steph is my running hero and it has been my dream to race with her.

Let me tell you, she did not disappoint!  The race was SO much fun!  Before the race I warned her that I do not chit-chat while I'm running.  "Me neither" said Steph.  BUT since she is from Idaho (elevation 3000 feet) and I'm from Cincinnati (elevation 200 feet)  She had quite the edge on me.  Those Idahoan lungs of hers are very well trained and she never got out of breath once.  Meanwhile I'm staggering along, barely able to breathe while she chit-chat's non-stop -- the entire race.  Although I was able to get a few sentences in.  Like:
I hate running!
This is so stupid!
Why did you talk me into this?
You are NOT my hero!
Racing is dumb!
You call this fun?
I hate running!
But, the best part of the race was The Finish Line.  We had decided to sprint when we saw the 3 mile marker.  So we did.  We ran like the wind.  SO FAST!  About 4 strides from the finish line I was completely beat and slowed down and Steph was a stride ahead of me.  Then a someone shouted from the sidelines "DON"T LET HER BEAT YOU!"  I'm not sure who they were shouting at but it gave me the jolt I needed to cross the finish line exactly 1 second before Steph :)  Clocking in at 33:44.  I know she could have left me in the dust the whole race, but I gotta say I was on cloud 9 when I crossed the line!  Such a fun race!

I also got to meet her new (to me) baby, Grant.  What a cutie!

and our kids got to play together. 

And the next day we consumed several scoops of Graeter's icecream, to celebrate our race :)