August 2012

August 1- played games with the youngest three, cailey joined us for Hey Diddle Diddle, comforted Cailey and played Temple Run w/ C, watched olympics together, cailey felt better in the evening and the morgan's came to visit...and had FUN times catching up!, kids played hide and seek/just dance wii.

August 2- watched the olympics with the kiddos, kinsey and braden got creative today and made up games, rocked and read with ephram, snuggled my cailey girl who ate a TON of popsicles, and youngest three played outside.

August 3- kinsey went to kelly's house all day long, the boys went on "ventures" and played Legos and in their room most of the day (except for times when they'd play outside and go for wagon or stroller rides), they all watched Rio, swim team practice, played lost of games with my cailey girl all day, Kinsey spent the night with the Morgan's and got a call from Matt.

August 4- stayed home with cailey while the others went to the last swim meet, ephram went to the Morgan's to play, abby and nicky came until monday, braden and nicky played with legos and robots, Kinsey and Abby played pet shop/polly pockets/ponies, they all played outside in the evening, brian mulched, spent hours on a picture project for the party, and did lots of snuggling with cailey who had her WORST day yet:(.

August 5- more playing with the cousins, cailey started to feel a little better and played a bit in between resting, ephram broke his leg...and i took him to the ER, movie/popcorn for everyone, and figured out how to best care for ephram.

August 6- said goodbye to nicky and abby, quick visit from klick's, tons of reading/games/imaginary play with ephram, cailey could feel part of her scabs coming off in her throat and was having pain, and went to the swim team ice cream party/couponed with the fam.

August 7- cailey was feeling much better and one of her scabs was gone, marsie and lucas came over for lunch and playtime, played a ton with the kids, cailey had fun facetiming with rebecca for the second day in a row, ran errands with the fam in the evening, and packed for Carowinds and the "surprise weekend!"

August 8- Early morning to take Cailey and Rebecca to Carowinds ALL day:) while Laura watched the other kiddos (they played tangrams/outside/drew/played cars/Mr. Wolf, etc.) had an awesome day with the girls! and drove home late.

August 9- got ephram's carolina blue cast (and frank's) put on, Brian took the day off to help get ready for the party, shopped together, did party stuff all day, braden helped/ephram and kinsey played in the living room, mall as a fam, cailey found out that she gets to sleepover rebecca's house until SATURDAY!

August 10- watched alex, party prepped, mom and dad came, party prepped more while they played with the kiddos, couldn't sleep from excitement, went to Jason's Deli for dinner, ran errands with Mom and Dad, and stayed up late working on the picture 10 and collage.

August 11- finally got to arrange the candy 'bar'..yay!!, had fun with last minute prep/cake decorating/food making, mom and dad went around house hunting, dad played with ephram a ton, braden and kinsey helped with the balloons and the prep, freaked out about the bad traffic laura endured...but rejoiced when she finally made it!!, and was able to SURPRISE!! cailey!

August 12- woke up early for goodbyes and the Olympic Marathon as a fam, ended up falling back asleep, church, rested, restored the house back to normal, and had some great talk time with my cailey girl!

August 13- did some school, dentist, errands, more school, games together, katherine and kelly came for dinner...and lots of laughing thanks to brian:), switched kinsey for caden for our last Monday night sleepover, and crashed.

August 14- went to kelly's for a playdate, went to the home school store, walked around crabtree mall with the kiddos, hair trims for the girls, school, played Pente with Cailey, Cailey cooked mac and cheese by herself for the first time, and snuggled my babies.

August 15- piano lessons for the oldest two, met the Keel's at a free movie, school, played lots of Pente with Cailey, watched 101 dalmatians together for family movie night (inspired by the Klick's buying a new doggie for Ephram from Disney Store), and the girls set up a 'buffet' of leftovers for dinner.

August 16- school, Cailey is asking to cook dinner nightly:), went to the hospital to meet Molly's baby Austin with Kelly, Braden went to Caden's for the day, got Cailey's tooth filled, took the other three out to Bo's for lunch, went to Cailey's follow up from her tonsils, and packed for the beach with help from Braden.

August 17- watched alex and ashton, cleaned, did laundry, packed more, school, played games with kinsey, kiddos did an Ariel play together and played tons of games...and outside, and soccer practice for the girls.

August 18- cheered on kinsey at her soccer game, packed up the van for the beach!, cheered a super hot cailey, left for the beach, watched the kids play in the water, LOVED just hearing the ocean, pizza night out on the deck together, walked on the beach with the older three in the evening, and felt sad for sweet ephram who wanted nothing more than to go in the water.

August 19- went on a run with brian/braden/cailey and lasted a mile, got prepped for the beach while the boys did three, spent four amazing hours on the beach playing together as a fam/building sand castles/swimming/chasing/and burying before a thunderstorm came, showered up early and the kiddos went to play Putt Putt at a pirate place with daddy while the storm lifted..and got to hole 14 before rain came again...so they headed to the mall while I hung out with ephram at naptime, sticky fingers for dinner, then had a blast at Barefoot Landing together.

August 20- ran 1 1/2 miles with brian (yay:)!, beach, sand fights, fun, friend making, pool, met klick's for dinner and chatting, shark shop with fam, and figured out the automatic timer on the camera:)!

August 21- woke to a rainy morning, hot krispy kreme doughnuts for breakfast, card games played, watched Dolphin Tales as a family, went out to lunch together, played putt putt since it stopped raining, stayed on the beach all afternoon and did the pool in the evening, walked with cailey in the morning...then kinsey...then braden in the evening on the beach, picnicked, had a BLAST on the sand bars way out, and brian took the oldest two out on a night walk.

August 22- happy 10th birthday to my biggest girl who had tummy aches all night:(, ran 2.5 miles!! with brian and braden (goal for the whole week was to do 2! now it's 3!), bagels on the beach for breakfast, fun ocean day...the best!, took braden to an eye apt, met keel's at broadway for dinner, shopping, and rides.

August 23- cloudy morning on the beach together, braden's eye apt, girls swam in the pool for a few hours, went to Benjamin's in the pouring rain, had a blast playing downstairs in the kids area together and swinging on the giant porch swings, played cards until late with the fam (UNO), and stayed up to blog.

August 24- rainy rainy day so we went to Wonder Works which was AWESOME!, stayed for hours, mellow mushroom for lunch, quick trip home for naps, rain finally stopped, broadway at the beach for shopping, braden was THRILLED to get to make a radio controlled car, cups for kinsey and ephram, and earrings for cailey, girls came home to swim while we started getting things packed up.

August 25- ran 3.3 with Brian and Braden!, packed up to head home, took white pics, drove home, laundry/cleaned, kiddos played outside in the GORGEOUS fall like weather (72 degrees), and sat outside with ephram chatting about volcanoes, bones, and other fun things.

August 26- church, family time, school, errands, games, clean up, prep.

August 27- piano lessons, school with kinsey done at 9, braden went to work w/ brian so he could go to his eye dr. apt at duke, ran 2 out in the HEAT, great talk time with cailey going through the body book, preschool and lots of A crafts with ephram, awesome time listening to kinsey read frog and toad, caden came to scouts with braden and then spent the night.

August 28- big boys played while i did school with kinsey and cailey did independent work, school with everyone, play/lunch date with klick's, kinsey went to their house for a playdate, preschool with ephram, great talk time with cailey, gave braden drops ALL DAY LONG praying they'll work, and went to Chili's with the Klick's.

August 29- kinsey to oral surgeon, school, pistachio pudding:), games one on one, outside play, fun preschool with ephram, made dinner with cailey, bad eye pain for cailey:(, lots of The Amazing Labyrinth, fun family night, and reading with cailey.

August 30- ephram got his cast off and moved to a boot (though won't walk yet), braden went to work with brian then to Duke for his eye check up which was a mess..they came home six hours later, baked with the other three, school, worried:(, prayed, hugged my babies, hugged my braden, played more, and crashed.

August 31- Braden to work/dr. with brian and brandon went, school, watched Alex, cleaned, LOVE doing preschool with ephram!, chatted with cheryl, got a good report from the dr. as Braden's eye improved!, did crafts, watched baby videos with the fam, and talked about adoption with kinsey.