A Day in my Life - July!

It's July!  Why does summertime buzz by so quickly?
I always share how I spent the first day of each month, but first I need to explain the strange look on my blog.  My blog design was done using photobucket and apparently they have a new fee system in place that would require a yearly payment for this type of thing.  On Friday, there were notices all over my blog - you may have seen them.  It made it hard to even read it!  Since I don't want to start paying all the time, I took the offending pieces off and am working to get the rest fixed but it takes a little time - and that's why it looks funny!  Hopefully it'll be  fixed soon.  :)

Now, on to my day.
This was my weekend off, and Alaina and Ruby were here and had spent the night Friday night.
Bob had to work Saturday, and he had barely left, around 7am, when Ruby came and crawled into bed with me.  She snuggled for a little bit, then whispered"
"Gwamma, where is Gwampa?"
"He's at work"
"But I want him"
"I know, but he had to go to work"
"But, I really, really want him"
"I'm sorry Ruby"
"But I'll give you my bunny!"
Wow - she gives that bunny to no one! After that sad little talk, we got up and had breakfast, Alaina was awake too, and Ruby got over the fact that Grandpa wasn't here.

 8am: Sleepy girls watching Doc McStuffins after breakfast.

8:30am:  Then it was time to get ready, starting with brushing the teeth.  (The bathroom is still under construction!)

 9am: Then Ruby helped me make brownies, and some sandwich spread.

And Alaina made a fort in the living rom using the couch cushions.

10am: I had found a cute craft idea, so we worked on that next.

Here is the finished product - 2 fishes each!

11am: Then we went for a walk down our road, and found lots of fun things.

 We found this cow in a neighbors side yard and had to say hi.

We saw some pretty flowers along the way.

We saw a dragonfly on a flower.

And finally, we got to the horse farm.  Alaina said this was way too far to walk and she was "sooo tired!"

On the way home, we saw this tree, that their mom had carved her initials into, along with her friend Jessica, many years ago!  It's on the property where Jessica used to live; Alaina and Ruby thought it was pretty neat!

12pm: When we got back home, we got in the car and went to McDonalds for lunch.  That's always a hit!

12:45: Then we stopped at Grandpa's work and saw him.  He was just as happy to see them, as they were to see him!


We stopped at the grocery store on the way home, where Alaina tried to talk me into getting all kinds of things, because she said her Papa would like it.  :)

 1:30pm: It was so nice out, so we spent some time playing before I took them home.

 They had fun on their bikes!  Then it was time to go home.

3pm:  We made it to their house, and they were both totally out!

They quickly woke up though and were happy to see their Papa.

3:30pm:  I stopped at Hobby Lobby for a few things before I went home.

4:15:  I'm home and I worked on getting a little patriotic theme to my decorating since the 4th is coming right up!  I also did some cleaning and picking up


5:45pm:  Bob came home, and we had Some frozen pizza for dinner.  While we ate, we watched a movie on Netflix - Pete's Dragon, and we enjoyed it.


We had a nice quiet, relaxing evening!  Hope you all had a good start to your month!