Mid July update

Man the last two months just flew by! I finished up the quarter with pretty good grades and then we had tons of stuff to do. Let's see. I made a trip to Chicago for a girls weekend, Jon and Maddy flew to Florida to visit Jeff and Kathy, Fourth of July, a couple trips to my mom and dads for various reasons, the zoo, poison ivy, play dates, Jessica and Bridgette came for a few days and we went to the Childrens Museum. Am I forgetting anything? Probably. Maddy has been keeping us busy too, she's chatting up a storm and making us laugh. She misses everyone and tells us all the time. "Me miss Daddy, Mommy", "Me miss Murray Green, Mommy", "Me miss my cousin Bridgie, Mommy". You get the picture? Sometimes I'll be leaving to go to the grocery or something and she'll tell me she misses me before I even leave!

Things she loves to do now, let's see. Playdough, loves it. She's finally started actually coloring again and not just throwing the crayons everywhere. I got her some dry beans and when we get them out she will play with them forever. The first day she literally played with them from morning until right before bath time. She did stick one up her nose but I was able to get it out easy enough and it scared her and she hasn't done it since. I don't think you can pass the toddler stage without sticking atleast one thing up your nose, so she should be good to go now. She likes to use her blocks and build towers, trains, walls and Murray Green's house. We do that atleast once a day, sit on the floor together building things and then knocking them over. She still loves books and the last few days has been playing with a little pig that oinks and moves around that Jeff and Kathy got her for Christmas the year before last I think. Jon and I are both hoping the battery runs out soon, haha. She'll sit it on the floor and then run around and say, "not my book Piggy!" and pick up the book out of it's way, then she'll say "not my bag piggy!" and then pick up the bag out of it's way.

I started my last quarter this week. I'll be finishing right before Maddy turns 3. Wow she's going to be 3! I'm working on my resume and all that fun stuff so hopefully I will have a job not too long after graduation. It's hard right now because I don't really know where we are going to be. I sort of have to follow Jon's job around and since he's looking at some different places I am holding off on the job thing.

I have been scrapping still so I'll put some of my new ones up here and maybe a few more pictures from camping (fourth of july) and other random things.














This is from a night when we had tornado warnings. I had to take her out of bed to go to the bathroom. She slept in the basket and I sat on the floor doing homework. Thankfully we didn't lose power.









We went camping and watched fireworks twice, she LOOOVED them. She fell asleep both nights by the fire in her stroller with a marshmellow in hand.







We had breakfast on the deck and the girls went out to play before we even had a chance to change their clothes.



This is a video of Jon painting Maddy's toe nails.
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