The Heat is On

Well, another 4th of July has come and gone. It was a fun, relaxing weekend. We mainly tried to stay out of the HEAT. Yuck. Why do we live in a desert again? Let's see, the weekend began early with Friday being a day to run errands, clean house and hang out at home. Marshal spent most of the weekend in the garage burning money hmmm, hmmm, I mean working on his latest project. :) Only took 15 hours to tear out an engine... let's see how long it takes to put it back together!

By Friday evening, the skies got dark and the thunder started to rumble so we headed out front to see if our first monsoon was going to roll in. We LOVE the monsoons, just so long as they don't knock out our power, freak out the dogs too bad, strike our home with lightning, knock a tree on our house... why did I say we love the monsoons? Oh, right, the excitement of it all, the smell of rain, the tiny relief from the blazing heat... Oh yeah. But, we didn't get so lucky this time. A sprinkle here and there, but nothing too exciting. It did leave us a cute little rainbow though!

(Above: just waiting for the rain)


(Ahhh, the "look". She's begun passing out dirty looks to every friendly cashier we come across. Here's a little taste. We're practicing giving nice faces...unless of course they are truly creepy. Little stinker.)


Saturday we headed over to a friend's house for a fun day of swimming and eating. Unfortunately, Quincy can only last so long so we headed home by 7:30. I wanted her to see fireworks so badly. She would have loved them in person. We caught them on TV and she watched with amazement. The next morning the first thing she did was go to the TV and say "Where Fireworks Go?" I hated to tell her they went bye, bye for a whole year! Ahhhhh, poor thing :(



(Quincy being silly with the Walters kiddos)

Tonight, she had me cracking up every five minutes. Everyday she is talking more and more. It's amazing what she actually catches on to that I never would realize. So, without going into too much detail, I was changing out of my work clothes this evening when I began to feel a pinch on my bootie. A little hand was reaching up pinching me! I guess I'd better stop with the "squish tush" at bathtime! It's so fun though because she has such a cute little behind! I just never thought she'd return the favor! Anyhow, I turned around and said "Don't pinch me! I'll pinch you!" To that she grabbed her own behind and said "Right here!" as in, "Go ahead mommy, it's right here!" I just have to keep laughing at the feeling of this little hand reaching up when I least suspected it!

The other thing she did tonight was just as cute, although the incident wasn't... Let's just say she had a "moment" in the bath-tub that caused me to remove her immediately and deal with something I would prefer not to think about! As I was frantically "fishing", she said "uh, oh.... EEEWWWW!" It was just such a funny remark. She was right. Ewwww! Things mommies have to deal with.