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Then I'm heading to bed! It was WAY too early this morning, and I am seriously dragging! I found this wonderful kit over the weekend and I've had tons of fun doing some layouts. I love it when a kit can go the distance and you still love it!

Then these few are ones that I've done since the fourth of July, but never got around to posting them.

I hear my bed calling my name.....AND Andrew brought home Battlestar Galactica from the library and he's been watching it with the kids.......my clue to check out....before I start going off on how LAME that show is!!

Little Vent

I just had to jot this down, cause I KNOW that I will forget when I can enjoy walking to church! We've been dealing with lots of construction noise and MESS for over a year now getting this church finished, and are at the final stages, and everyone is excited and very anxious to get into the new building! HOWEVER......the disadvantage of living across from the church is that the trucks arrived this morning at 5:30AM to dump loads of rock for the landscaping!!! Yes, you read that right....5:30! I probably would have slept right through it, but my loving husband had fallen alseep watching Seinfeld (again) and the noise from the trucks woke him up, so up he came to bed. That would have been fine, but he decided that at 5:50 was the perfect opportunity to converse about this. Well, NOW I'm awake and the trucks are just idling in front of our house! I come downstairs to see what they are doing, and the drivers are just talking!!!!! So I decide to go out and tell them to leave..........and they tell me that "we're just trying to do our JOB"!!! Like the 7am noise rule doesn't apply to any worker that has been told to "get the job done"! I mean REALLY!!! I probably wouldn't be SO grumpy, but I was up until 1:30 scrappin (which really is past my limit....but hey I was on a roll!) and now Carissa is starting to wake up.......Yup at 6:15AM!! Two grumpies in this house is NOT cool....and let's not even talk about the teenage grumpies!!! So everyone that will be jealous because I can walk to church, please understand there was a price to pay for this luxury, and it wasn't cheap!! (I'll post pages later...gonna try and rest my eyes! We'll see how long that lasts)

290 pictures in 4 days!!

It's not that I have my camera out ALL the time, but when we have a busy, busy 4th, it's easy to take that many pictures! We had a great 4th of July weekend. On Friday we made it down to the parade. We got there pretty late (well relatively late for getting front spots) and managed to find a spot on some grass and under a tree. We were kinda in the back, but as the parade started the family in front of us moved up and opened up some space so we moved up too. We were pretty much in the shade the entire time, which was awesome.....cause it was HOT!! Reminds me of years past when I use to march in the parades when I was in band!! Yikes, that was a LONG time ago!! When Carissa got tired of the parade, Andrew took her to McDonald's and got her some lunch, and she had a great time playing while Nikelle and I watched the rest of the parade.

The funniest thing happened later that day. I had taken Nikelle down to Wal-mart to pick up some last minute things for her camping trip next week during Carissa's nap. As we were checking out, (I guess we'd been there awhile!) Nikelle tells me that she hears a kid that sounds JUST like Carissa. I just thought it was funny and laughed it off! Then she tells me she hears it AGAIN...so this time I look.....and there is Andrew and Carissa picking up fireworks!! Funny to me that I didn't even hear her...yet Nikelle did! Just goes to show you that I really do tune her out!! So we lit off some fireworks later that night. This year there were no fires in the neighborhood, which was REALLY good! Carissa wasn't too fond of the loud ones, and pretty soon she was very tired! But that didn't stop the boys from lighting off as many as they could. Check out Donavan lighting one while the other one is still going!!! I could have shot him myself....crazy pyro boy!!

Then on Saturday morning Carissa slept until 10am!! So we knew she would never take a nap, so we decided to try out the new Splash Pad in Herriman. When we got there, there weren't very many people there and she was quite hesitant to get wet. She just wanted to play on the slides (which were hot!) then eventually as more kids got there, she sort of caught on with splashing in the puddles, but she REALLY didn't like it when the bigger boys splashed her. But she didn't freak out too much......just mostly had a good time! We will definitely be going back there again!

And the very best news of all.......they announced today that we will be in our new church building in 3 weeks!! (of course it has to pass all the inspections, but we are all very excited to have our very own building!!) And the best part will be when they clean the street!!!!!!!!!!!!!