Happy 4th of July

Yesterday was a BUSY day!
Ryan got home at about 8am from working 48 hours.
We get ready and headed over to see Grandpa Rick and Uncle Jakey.
We played and ate an early lunch and then around 12:30 headed over to see Grandma Karla
and Larry. Mackenzie AND Kaci went swimming.
It was Kaci's forst time in the pool and she seemed to really like it.
She floated on her back and just let me carry her all over the pool and never made a peep!
Kenzie practiced her swimming (with tears of course).
She did very well, I was worried she would have already forgotten
since it had been a few weeks since swimming lessons but she picked it right back up.
After swimming we headed over to Uncle Chris' house where all of my family was going for a BBQ & more swimming.
This time I only took Mackenzie to the pool, while Kaci stayed inside with Daddy.
She practiced some more, with MUCH less tears this time.
I even threw her in twice and she turned and swam to the edge!
We BBQ'd and hung out until the girls were absolutly exhausted about 6:30pm.
They of course feel asleep on the way home
and we took Kenz right to bed since she had NO NAP!
Kaci was out by about 7:30 so what did we do?
We went to bed!
Yup, it was about 8pm when we got upstairs and when we were in bed ready to sleep we could still see the sun poking in through the blinds.
It was AWESOME!
Kaci woke up at 3:30 for a quick bottle and then the girls slept until 7:45 this morning!
YEAH!
I got almost 11 hours of sleep.
Ryan had to work again this morning and is doing another 48hours.
So, it will just be us girls for 2 days. My car got a flat tire yesterday and
Discount Tire isn't open today so we are home bound
until tomorrow when I can get a new tire...Oh well!
Hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July!

I am SO RUDE....

....but it wasn't on purpose! I was looking back through my blog at old pictures of the girls and just so happened to see the "comments" at the bottom of some posts! I never even realized that they were there so for everyone who left a comment, SO SORRY! I had to go back through my whole blog to read all the nice things people had written. Not to mention, a few of them said things like, "I will be in town this weekend, we should hang out", or "Call me". What a jerk! Well, now I know to look for comments AND I am super excited I can leave comments on other people's posts too! Now, I just need to figure out how to get a list of all my 'friends' on my page....Help, I am Blogger Moron!

The emotions of a Toddler & my happy Baby!

KACI IS SUCH A HAPPY BABY AND LOVES TO SIT AND WATCH HER BIG SISTER PLAY!

OH HOW FAST A TODDLER'S EMOTIONS CAN CHANGE! (these were all taken within about a 2 minute period and I couldn't even snap fast enough to get every face she was giving me)

So it's not just RED high heels....

What can I say?She has GREAT taste in shoes!

Does it get any Cuter than this?

Mackenzie wanted Kaci to wear sunglasses like her (and she ALWAYS wears them!) So, she went and put one pair on herself then brought the other pair to me and tried to put them on Kaci so I helped her so noone lost an eye. I then made them sit onthe couch for a picture because it is just too cute to pass up.

UPDATE: Kenz had her 18 mo. check yesterday and she is 23 lbs. & 32 inches long. Everything looks great, growing like a normal girl. It was her last day of swimming lessons yesterday...which I'm sure she is very happy about! The rest of the fam is doing good, Ryan is back roving everyday so who knows where he will end up day to day. Cheer has been keeping me very busy lately with camps and practices, but I love it! Until next time....

Red High Heels

What a GIRLY GIRL! She is only 18 months and is already playing 'dress-up'.

Swimming Lessons

Mackenzie's swimming lessons are now half over. She is doing really well. She still cries when it is her turn to swim but she is kicking really well (and straight now) and she is getting better at the "cat walk" and turning to find the edge. Here are a few pictures from this week. I'm also including a couple new ones of Kaci (who is growing so big!)