Pictures! Finally!

I think this one is gonna get long....I'm going to try and post in chronological order and get all caught up.

Again, we had visitors for July 4th weekend. Here are a few pictures from our weekend...outside of the professional pictures, we didn't take too many. Sorry these aren't the greatest, they're all we've got.

Waiting on the metro.


At the Washington Monument


4th of July cookout at Michelle's, trying on her shoes.




July 5th in the ER. Waiting on the doc.


Mommy, I'm hungry and tired and in pain....why can't we go home?


Ok, I'll entertain myself by taking pictures of myself with the camera.
(You won't believe how happy she was to take pictures and try and flip it around and see the image before the screen went dark.)




Just got done with casting, waiting on the doc to release us.


Sofie bellied up to the bar with Kellie after Marc's baseball game on the 12th.


I bought this really cool cake pan that makes a bundt cake in the shape of a flower...for $3!


This past Saturday I went to a bridal shower for my friend Hillary.
The bride and her matron of honor.


Showing off one of her gifts.


Everyone that was at the shower.


After the shower, we caravaned to a few local wineries for tastings.






Barb taking of picture of me taking a picture of Barb. :)


After the wineries, all the girls went to dinner and then went out partying. I didn't go because I had to be at my running group at 6:30am the next day. It's a good thing too, I was sacked out on the sofa by 8pm with a migraine. But it sounds like I missed a good time!

Breakfast this past Sunday


On the way home from Marc's game....notice the chocolate face. I brought donuts for the team and Sofie went to town on a chocolate covered one.


Phew! I think we are caught up now. I'm off to make lunches and get in bed before 9! Michelle and I are running 6 miles in the morning.

Leg Update!!

Sofie had her check up with the orthopedist today. Last week the doctor couldn't see anything on her xrays, but he said it could have been fractured in the growth plate, which he told us would not show on the xray until it started to heal and show signs of calcification. She's been in the splint for 10 days and she had new xrays. And there were still no signs of fracture! Whoo hoo! At this point, since she can't tell us where or how it hurts, we can only assume it is a bad sprain. She walked on it tentatively and jerky, but she walked. She hasn't walked since, she's scooted and she's crawled on her hands and knees (which leads me to believe it's in her ankle).

We had a house full with Marc's daughters, our two nieces, and Marc's dad (they were here for 4.5 days). Sofie had her leg incident their last day here. Then my parents came up to love on Sofie while my dad was here for a meeting.

This week we've finally had our house back to ourselves and we are trying to settle back into our routines. I still have pictures from the girls' visit but they are on my camera. I'd never get around to blogging if I kept putting it off until I got the pictures. I've been running at 4:45am and 5am, rushing home to get ready, drop Sofie at daycare, learning a new job (finally got to meet my client!) and commute. By the time dinner is done and lunches are made, all I want to do is go to bed and start it all over again.

Family Photos

My father-in-law is visiting and he brought my step-daughters and 2 nieces with him. One of the first things we did was go have family photos taken. Our last one was horrible!


All the girl cousins (my nephew, Bobby is missing)

Front row: Sofie, Vanessia (my neice)
Middle row: Araceli (my other niece), Hayleigh (step-daughter)
Back row: Alicyn (step-daughter)

The West Coast cousins

Araceli and Vanessia

The Illinois cousins

Alicyn and Hayleigh

All of Marc's girls

Sofie, Hayleigh, and Alicyn

Marc and I


Marc and I with our girls

Alicyn, Marc, me, Sofie, and Hayleigh

Grandpa with the girl grandkids (again, grandson, Bobby, is missing)

Alicyn, Grandpa, Sofie, Araceli, Hayleigh, Vanessia

Our First ER Visit

Sofie has a fractured leg. She was going down the slide with her big sister (we've had house guests, hence no recent posts, will update soon). Her shoe got caught on the slide and her foot stayed put while the rest of her body kept going down the slide. Her leg bent behind her and Marc heard a pop. She wouldn't walk or put any pressure on her leg afterwards. We called the pediatrician who recommended we take her to the ER. A few x-rays later, they are pretty sure it is fractured near the growth plate, down by the knee. Apparently, it's pretty hard to read x-rays for kids this small since they are still mostly cartilage. So, she got a splint to immobilize her leg and we are headed to the orthopedist tomorrow. I will update more once I know more...and better pictures too.

Whew...busy couple of days

I've had a busy couple of days around here. Thursday morning after Michelle and I finished our morning run I got it in my head that I wanted to paint the master bedroom. And Marc had already left for work....which means I moved all the furniture either out of the bedroom or into the middle of the room by myself.

I got paint everywhere!


Even in my hair....not sure how that happened.


Here is the finished product...the picture doesn't show it too well and some of the blue tape is still up. (Disregard the mess....we were still moving stuff back in the room.)

It was a dirty eggshell color before. I'm so happy just to have fresh paint! I would have been pleased with a fresh coat of plain old white.

Thursday night I went to the Nationals vs. Red Sox game with Michelle. And the Nats won! Whoo hoo!

Friday morning I finished painting our bedroom. I had extra paint leftover so Sofie's table got a coat of paint too.

Here is the princess on her way to school Friday morning. She loves her sunglasses.


Yesterday and this morning was full of running.

We also had Empire Floors out here yesterday for a price quote on having the floors replaced from Jack's incident. We have also looked at Home Depot and Lumber Liquidators. Empire's price includes everything...moving furniture, putting it back, ripping up the old stuff, disposing of the old stuff, laying the new floor, the cost of the new floor, laying the quarter round, everything! Home Depot and Lumber Liquidators had the same prices as each other (and were cheaper than Empire), but the nickle and dime you on moving the furniture, laying the quarter round, all the extras. It will end up costing the same or more as Empire with the extras. And they can't do it next day. It'll be at least a week and their product isn't as nice.

Sofie playing Rock Band with Daddy this afternoon.

Water Play

This week started summer camp activities at daycare and Mondays are always water play days. Of course, I forgot and didn't have any of the appropriate clothing for her. Yesterday I went out and got her a surf top and some board shorts, all meant for getting wet. And some cute new shoes for Sofie came home with me, too. What can I say, LL Bean was having a sale.

Doesn't she look tall in this picture?


Can you believe this little out fit is a size 4?! I bought it expecting that it would be too big but it was the smallest they had. I figured with the adjustable waist band it would work. It fits perfectly. (I think its supposed to be very fitted.)



Since Sofie was already dressed, we decided to throw on our swim suits too and we all headed over to the pool. Sofie had a blast. She's getting more and more daring. While she and Marc played, I practiced some laps (I'm thinking of doing a triathlon).

This little outfit is so much easier than a normal swim suit. It's easier to get on and off and easier to change her diaper. And it gives her more coverage from the sun.

Happy Father's Day

We went to the Museum of Natural History on Saturday with Kevin and Hollie and their two daughters. It was so great to see them! Kevin was my big brother in Kappa Kappa Psi and I can't remember the last time I saw them. Plus, it was nice to interact with people. I'm going a little stir crazy waiting to get on with my client.

This is the only picture I got of the kids together, and it's still lacking Ella Grace. Sofia and Alle Marie.


Sofie waiting on lunch


Alle Marie snacking on goldfish.


After we had lunch, we went back to the museum. But Sofie was tired and ready for a nap. She started screaming and laying on the floor in the middle of the museum, so we had to jet out of there pretty quickly. I really wanted to get a picture of all 3 kids together. And perhaps some of the adults too. But it just didn't happen.

It was so humid and stagnant out, we were all sweaty messes by the time we got back to the metro. I tried, and succeded in getting Sofie's hair into pig tails. I suppose they are actually tri-tails since the one on top and in the front is still in too.





We love visitors! Anytime y'all are in the Washington DC area just let us know.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there!