Royal Guests & Rachel's New Room

Matt, Rachel, and I were invited to be royal guests at Hannah & Kate's princess party. Rachel has had her share of odd little illnesses this week and Thursday night started showing signs of pink eye. Matt got her an appointment for Friday morning and she had an ear infection and pink eye. I really wanted to go to the princess party and the doctor said as long as she had been on antibiotics for 24 hours and had no eye goo, she would be fine to be around other people. The medicine (eye drops) worked quickly and we had no more eye grossness. She had a great time at the party as did everyone else, especially the kiddos in the pool!




Rachel is figuring out how to get places in the pool by leaning forward and kicking. Yesterday, Matt taught her how to hang on to the side of the pool and inch her way to the steps. She is going to have big muscles if she keeps that up.






















I started Rachel's big girl room a while ago, but Matt and I are tying up the last loose ends. He changed an outlet and light switch out and put up some blinds this weekend. We still have the doors to stain because you will notice in the pictures that the door trim is watermelon colored. My Dad and I got new baseboard and stained that already. Matt got some doors that had been primed because they were half the price of the special order doors that are unfinished. We were told you can use gel stain and it will still bring out the wood grain. We tried one yesterday and it looks awful. So, we will have to figure something else out and for now, her room will not be completely done. The furniture is my old bedroom furniture that I got when I was around 5. It is in really good shape and I repainted it antique white a few years ago. She has lots of storage with the closet, desk, and dresser and also the window seat has room underneath too.








We have had a trench in our front yard for about two weeks now that DJ dug. I felt really bad for him because it was so hot and it took him a few days to do this. Matt wanted a lamp post so people could find our house and so the trench was for running electric out to the post. We got the post together and it looks really nice. This picture isn't the greatest, but it is raining and I don't want to go outside.

Sneaky Girl

I was working on painting our bathroom upstairs and Rachel was for the most part staying out of trouble. I turned on Mickey Mouse for her and came down a little while later to find this:

I guess she took snack time into her own hands and found a bag of Cheetos in a cabinet. Thankfully, she was just licking her hands and not touching ANYTHING. The bag was empty, but when we went to the kitchen to wash her hands, there were a bunch of Cheetos on the ground. I guess when she opened the bag, they spilled, but I have a feeling she still ate quite a bit of them. Oh well!



Matt had been texturing the bathroom walls in an attempt to repair drywall and just even things up a bit. Well, it is hard to tell if it actually looks good until you paint it one color. I did just that today and I think we are going to have to hire someone. Sigh. Maybe they can come out quickly because Matt and I had plans of beginning the floor tile on Labor Day.
School is good. Matt got puked on twice by Rachel last night, but she seems just fine today. We are going to Orlando in a few weeks for a nice family vacation and Rachel will be taking her first trip to Magic Kingdom. We are both looking forward to some time together as it has been scarce lately.

Singing in the Rain!

Lydia came over for a few days and her and Rachel had a lot of fun together!



Since Lydia was using Rachel's highchair, Rachel got to sit in a booster seat at the table. She does pretty well and still, of course, makes a mess. I decided that after Lydia left, she would just continue eating at the table.




Lauren and the girls came over for a grill-out last weekend and this is their bath so they could be all clean and pretty for church the next day. They each get a ridiculous smile in.




Rachel ready for church! She just doesn't like to take pictures for me and only me.

Last night was my first night of school and it went great (just like always). It rained really hard and Matt let Rachel play outside in it. It looks like she had a blast!