Father's Day we took it easy. I was down for the count most of the day, but we made sure to give Rob a long nap in the afternoon. Instead of breakfast in bed, he got dinner in bed. He requested toasted sandwiches for dinner. The kids each made him a card (I don't remember why Jack was pouting in the picture) and they all sung him a song when they delivered the cards and dinner to him, ending it by piling on top of him to give him kisses :)
For dessert, we got Rob his very own coconut chess pie (made even better in his opinion by finding it in the discount section of the bakery) that he got to eat from the inside out.
Happy Father's Day Rob!!! You are an amazing dad and husband and we are so glad we have you!!!
I didn't get any pictures of this, but a few weeks ago Rob won tickets to Hawaiian Falls, a water park near our house. We decided Laura and Eva wouldn't enjoy it much, so we got a babysitter for them and took the four older kids. We had a wonderful time, but were very glad we had won the tickets instead of paying for them. The older kids went down a grand total of two full sized water slides and the younger kids didn't go down any. They loved the little water slides and the wave pool, so we spent most of our time in those. The kids have wanted to go there since it was built a few years ago, so being able to hang out there was definitely one of the highlights of the summer so far!
We had a wonderful visit with one of Rob's best friends from high school, Damien, and his wife, Rhea, and their daughter, Jia. Damien's job brings him to our area every few months and Rhea and Jia always come with him, so we've gotten to see them several times over the past year. We love getting to spend time with them! They are some of the kids' favorite guests :) The kids even call Rhea "Tita", which means aunt in Tagalog (Rhea is Filipino). We got some extra time with Rhea and Jia when they came over to play with us during the day while Damien was at work.
Allison came to visit too :) We went out to dinner at PF Changs, then went shopping for work clothes for me (and an outfit for each of the kids) and a giant cow pillow for her, then wrapped things up with drinks at Sonic. It was sort of a belated birthday celebration for me as she wasn't up here for my birthday. We had a wonderful night! She needs to move back up here so I see her more often.
Megan modeling the shirt/dress outfit we picked for her -
Other than that, we've pretty much take it easy. We've been to Miss Jojo's pool twice so far this summer, which I guess isn't bad for three weeks of summer. We've had a lot of storms here, although we haven't gotten much rain. Thunderstorms tend to put a damper on our ability to go swimming. I was feeling bad about the kids missing out on fun things because I haven't been feeling well, but I think we've managed to do more than I thought we had :)
I think I'm starting to adjust to my meds. I actually felt normal (which was weird) on Thursday, felt pretty good on Friday, and felt good most of Saturday. We got a babysitter at the last minute Friday night and Rob and I went out for dinner (Korean food from a hole-in-the-wall cafe), then just drove around for a while. It was really nice :) Saturday I got up early and crawled into bed with Kylie, Megan, and Eva (who camped out together the night before) and read to them for a while. Later that morning Rob and I took Eva and Laura and did grocery shopping for the week, then I took a quick nap and we headed over to Jojo's to hang out with her and swim. We finished up the evening by picking up pizzas on the way home. The kids had all earned free pizzas through school and their coupons expired on Sunday, so we had to use them up :) I felt horrid Saturday night and all day Sunday (and still don't feel great today), but I had almost three normal-ish days, which is more than I've had in a long time, so we were excited!
And I have to add that Rob and I have been doing some light couponing. Pretty much just loading online coupons to our Kroger card and shopping sales when possible. We eat mostly organic and all natural and most of our food is fresh, plus we buy our meat and eggs from a local farm, so there aren't a whole lot of things we can use coupons for. We managed to save 20% off our groceries this week, plus we had coupons that doubled our fuel points, so we ended up paying $2.08 for gas, saving us about $27 on gas alone (we filled up both cars)! Yay for us!
Some random pictures from this month . . .
Eva enjoying her cereal -
Megan, Kylie, and Beth really, really, really like an Australian show called H2O about girls who turn into mermaids when they are touched by water. Rob caught them cuddled up together as they watched it -
We had to take a picture of Kylie's invention, called the "AK Ultimate". Kylie did a super serious pose for me. It shoots fire, water, earth, and hot lava. Kylie informed me that it was made by three inventions. First it was Beth's, then Jack's, then Kylie's.
The official start of my internship is getting super close! I got my work phone last week. I needed one with a local number and one that was separate from my personal number. We decided to get a smartphone so I would be able to access my work email through it. Up until now, we've only had basic cell phones - we don't even have internet on our phones. Can I just say that smartphones are super cool??? :) I can scan documents with my phone! And deposit checks! And order pizza online! And pinpoint my exact location on google maps! We're having lots of fun with it :)
After discovering what my new phone number would be (I still have my other number as well, this is just for work), I got my business cards printed up :) Rob and I designed them online. I think they turned out really well! I know it was official before, but to me, getting the cards made it real :) Oh, and by the way, I managed to get an A in my last class, so I have a 4.0 going into my internships!
We managed to fit haircuts into our Saturday schedule before I crashed. As a joke, we gave Jack a mohawk. He liked everyone's reactions to it so much that we kept it :) Notice his super cool shirt - Angry Birds + Star Wars = best shirt ever :)
And I snapped a photo of Laura's first time riding in the car cart at the grocery store on Saturday morning. No, Eva's not choking her (survival of the fittest, right?), she's trying to make her look at the camera :) I can't believe she'll be 10 months old tomorrow! I missed getting 9 month pictures of her. I need to get 10 month ones and give an update on her (her 2nd tooth broke through yesterday!).
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