We headed down to our favorite vacation destination for the 4th of July weekend. We shot off our fireworks and roasted marshmallows around the campfire, like we do every year. We usually take a family photo on our favorite log, but someone
cut it up! And most of our family was missing this year, so this photo is the best we have. Burning the family photo log pieces in our bonfire was depressing. But the kids loved the fireworks nonetheless.
This picture is symbolic of Child #3's weekend. Thursday morning he complained about his ears bothering him. By Saturday morning he had a fever. By Sunday evening he was hollow-faced and couldn't eat. He tried to have a positive attitude and not let his ears bother him, but the illness got the better of him and we headed home to the doctor as fast as we could this morning. DH and Child #3 are still at the lab waiting for results that will tell us if he has strep or mono!
Child #5 had a great time on the tire swing. She is now big enough to go really high! She would sit on the swing and call out, "Daddy! Sing me!" over and over until DH would come up from the well house to swing her. (Yes, the well house. Every morning we woke to the water being out from a broken pipe. DH spent his whole vacation replacing fittings and fixing leaks. And every day he would get the well pump working perfectly until 3:00 in the morning when something would mysteriously break down again.) Anyway, Child #5 would swing and swing and yell, "Sing me again, Daddy!"
The world biggest doughnut! My Pathetic Doberman has a liking for tire swings and likes to jump up in the air and grab them and tear them apart. Its more fun when there is a kid on top. Of course my children have been raised with this "ruff" play and absolutely love it.
We headed down to our favorite vacation destination for the 4th of July weekend. We shot off our fireworks and roasted marshmallows around the campfire, like we do every year. We usually take a family photo on our favorite log, but someone cut it up! And most of our family was missing this year, so this photo is the best we have. Burning the family photo log pieces in our bonfire was depressing. But the kids loved the fireworks nonetheless.
This picture is symbolic of Child #3's weekend. Thursday morning he complained about his ears bothering him. By Saturday morning he had a fever. By Sunday evening he was hollow-faced and couldn't eat. He tried to have a positive attitude and not let his ears bother him, but the illness got the better of him and we headed home to the doctor as fast as we could this morning. DH and Child #3 are still at the lab waiting for results that will tell us if he has strep or mono!
Child #5 had a great time on the tire swing. She is now big enough to go really high! She would sit on the swing and call out, "Daddy! Sing me!" over and over until DH would come up from the well house to swing her. (Yes, the well house. Every morning we woke to the water being out from a broken pipe. DH spent his whole vacation replacing fittings and fixing leaks. And every day he would get the well pump working perfectly until 3:00 in the morning when something would mysteriously break down again.) Anyway, Child #5 would swing and swing and yell, "Sing me again, Daddy!"
The world biggest doughnut! My Pathetic Doberman has a liking for tire swings and likes to jump up in the air and grab them and tear them apart. Its more fun when there is a kid on top. Of course my children have been raised with this "ruff" play and absolutely love it.
