Finally Friday

<-------- is that not the coolest picture?! Ok, maybe not the coolest.  But really, it's pretty darn awesome.  And I did it completely on purpose.  I could do it again tomorrow if I wanted.  Or something like that.  :)

So, I'm popping in on the blog today to try to regain a bit of normalcy to my life...and this blog.  It has sort of become Baby Central - and while that is very exciting and has brought lots of readers to this blog - I think 365 posts on nothing but infertility, surrogacy, or babies *might* send us all to the crazy basement.  "Finally Friday" it is.  A little brain dump.  It's good stuff people.

• So happy work friends are getting together this morning.  While I ADORE summer vacation - I miss my work family like crazy.  We spend everyday together keeping each other sane and over the summer we never see each other.  I'm not complaining about summer break though, just to be clear.  I'll just go to Panera to meet them - no need to rush summer to be over.  
• Today it was finalized that Julie, Dan and their family are going to be staying with us for a few days over the 4th while they are in town visiting family - SO excited!
• Mother Nature is not my friend this week.  Every day that I purposely scheduled nothing it has been cloudy, raining, or tornado-ing.  The days I've been busy - nothing but sun.  I'm not sure if she is finding this trick to be funny, but I'd like for her to get her act together.  Now.
• I'm spending all.day. Saturday scrapbooking with friends.  I can't really describe how exciting this is.  Cutting paper, gluing, using my Cricut to cut letters, matting pictures - we know how to par-tay I tell ya.
• I'm having a love/hate relationship with the fact that next week is the 4th of July.  I love the 4th.  I love what it stands for and I love the traditions my family has made of parading, swimming, eating, laughing, and firework-ing.  But the 4th of July also marks 1/2 way thru summer.  I'm not really ready for that.  Not even a little.
• Kevin & Kaitlyn had a ball at the pool tonight after dinner.  I enjoyed annoying them snapping some pictures to preserve memories.

My 2 favorite people in this world.

Look at those eyes.  She is 12 going on 22.  

this *may or may not* have taken me 987 tries to get.  Well worth it, I'd say.  :)

Everyone LOVES the water slide.  The outtakes of this photo shoot are HIGHlarious.

My Heart

That's it for "Finally Friday".  Random much?

Have a great weekend!