Memorial Day Weekend

We were blessed to have my parents and sisters Kristen and Lauren in town this weekend. Saturday morning I took Kristen and Lauren with me to plant dahlias at the VA Medical Center. Last week I had received an email that they were in need of volunteers and I thought to myself, "why not!?" We were only giving an hour of our time to plant flowers for our veterans to enjoy and it reminded me of planting flowers as a little girl in our front yard. Olivia got to stay home and hang out with dad.

We believe that our little beauty is teething again! She has bee waking up again in the middle of the night, is more grumpy than usually, but has actually been taking naps. Poor baby girl! Maybe a top tooth? :-) hopefully it will not be a month long ordeal this time around. However, last night we also had the first thunder and lightning storm of the summer! That probably contributed to her constant waking up. At one point I was tired and just done so I picked her up and we "slept" on the couch for the rest of the night so that Mike could sleep. I mean, one of us should get sleep. There is no point in having two sleep deprived parents if you can avoid it. I do think that you should trade off though! That is what it means to be parents together; taking turns and helping each other out. It has taken time but I think that we are turning into a pretty good team and I think it will only get better as Olivia gets older and can communicate. But we will just have to wait and see.

I felt so bad! For probably close to 7 hours on Saturday, Mike was outside changing the brakes on our Kia. He was only able to change the driver side brake pads and caliper. He also had to take two trips out to Spalding, a place to get used car parts, because the first time, they gave him the wrong calipers. :( I felt so bad! He got sunburned and was exhausted. But he didn't give up! Next up? The passenger side brake pads and caliper and then on to the brakes on the Subaru! My honey is amazing :-) 

Playing with uncle Ben while he is resting on the floor

BEAUTIFUL :-)

Football!! Look at those muscles in her back!

Yesterday, we went to church and then back to my brothers' house for a BBQ and some time at the park! Olivia took a nap that was just over 2 hours. WOOHOO! I am pretty sure that at some point in the day, we all took a nap... or even two. They were definitely needed.

Nap time with auntie Lauren!

Yup, listening to my sun glasses :)

It was a good weekend. The family took off yesterday morning after having breakfast at our place. Olivia and I then went to see some friends at the park. However, we did not get to stay out long as we heard more thunder rolling in. Yup, we need to prep ourselves for a crazy summer of weather.

It is now Tuesday and we are just truckin along through this week! I have a feeling that the rest of it is going to go by pretty quickly. I am hoping that tomorrow I will be able to post the rest of the pictures from two weekends ago when we spent time with the grandparents. But for now, good night :)