WHY

So I thought I had found the PERFECT Father's Day/birthday present for Phil. Vampire Weekend is coming to Seattle in August. HOORAY!!! We love Vampire Weekend. Plus the concert is at Mary Moore Park, and we LOVE concerts at Mary Moore Park. Nothing better than hanging out on a beautiful summer evening listening to great music. Then I called Ashlee because she would be living in Seattle in August and I have taught her to love Vampire Weekend too. What could be better than my sister living in Seattle and all four of us hanging out with Vampire Weekend. I should have bought the tickets before calling Ashlee, because she made me look at the calendar and that is when I realized they were coming to Seattle to play at Mary Moore Park on a SUNDAY!! BOO. Why? Why?
This is when I went through all the, well you don't actually spend money on that day because we will already have purchased the tickets. Can I pretend I didn't look to see the day of the week until after I bought the tickets? Okay, this is when it is helpful to have a really great sister so I know she at least will not be going to the concert without me!!!
Now what in the world do I do about the Father's Day/birthday present? Any ideas?

Family Pictures

So, Jamie Pace my totally talented friend took our family pictures and I LOVE them and I haven't LOVED any of our family pictures in a long time. We all look fantastic and she did such a great job with the coloring and lighting. Plus I do have some really cute kids.

We Have Subfloor

The kids went over to Nana's this weekend and Phil and I worked on the cabin and we got the subfloor in. It is nice to not have to balance on the beams (which, I didn't always do very well and have more then once tumbled down taking the insulation with me). We put in the final beam and framed out a wall in the kitchen and started working on the stairs. We finished off the plumbing (which was leaking a little at the outdoor shower) and we put up some drywall.

We worked on Friday night and then went out to dinner around 10:00 because we had to do something while we had grandparents watching the kids. We tried turning on a movie when we got home late from dinner and both lasted about 15 minutes before falling fast asleep. Saturday we were up early and at it again for about 12 hours. It was super nice to not have to feel guilty about ignoring the kids like we have been for the past few weeks.

They had a great time at Nana's and quickly fell asleep last night after all their activities this weekend. Hopefully we can get the stairs in easily and keep moving along with all this work. It is exciting to see things slowly coming together.

Cannon

On the way home from Dupont tonight the kids were looking at the moon and asked if it moves. After we told them yes and they were watching the clouds move past the moon Cannon says, "maybe it (the moon) is playing tag with the clouds". I thought it was a great description of what things looked like with the clouds coming and going around the moon.

Girls Night

So last night Phil took Cannon to a father/son camp out. I decided I should do something fun with just the girls. For some reason they wanted to go to Carl's Junior for dinner, gag, but whatever they wanted. We then hit target and purchased a girly (Island Barbie) movie and some candy. Lyla didn't stop singing the entire movie so I think it was a hit. The girls are now watching/singing with the movie this morning before we head up to Seattle. It was really fun to hanging out with them and not feel like I needed to be doing a million other things.
I can't wait to see how things went with Cannon. He was SO excited all week and kept asking things about "boys camp" and reminding Miya and Lyla that they were not invited to go to "boys camp". He loved it last year and was looking forward to hot dogs for dinner, a fire, sleeping in a tent, the "yummy breakfast" and hanging out with dad. Phil and I talked about how great it is that he was so excited to have this time with just his dad, because we know that at some point in his life these things just wont be that exciting. I am glad we can have these moments now and build relationships with our children that will hopefully make it easier to have a good relationship when they are older and friends are way more cool than we are.

Food Storage

Working on the 12 months supply one box at a time. There are some things we just can't imagine going without. We will however have to learn to eat cereal with the powdered milk we just purchased. I love cereal sales at the grocery store.

Family Prayer

I just got down from family prayer where Miya asked, "that we can all have better attitudes tomorrow." I gave everyone a hug and told them sorry and that I would be better tomorrow. Being a mom doesn't make me perfect, but I am glad my kids forgive so easily.