Depression and wedding prep

I am SO tired. I started depression meds because post-partum has been pretty bad lately. But the first few nights on it are generally pretty bad for me, I think because my body sees it as a stimulant. Even the small dose that I'm taking kept me up until 3 am the first night and then at 7, I couldn't go back to sleep. Last night (night 2 on the medication), I fell asleep around 10:30, but was awake by 3. At 7 I was finally tired enough to go back to sleep and slept until 9, but I'm too old to be averaging 5 hours of sleep a night. Blergh.

Two Sundays ago Alison came over and I practiced doing her hair for the wedding. It won't look like this, but this is where we started. :)

One day--Tuesday, I think, the kids wanted to go to a splash pad that wasn't ours. So we drove up to the Orem mall only to find out they were fixing the splash pad. So then we went up to the one across from Cascade Mini Golf. Jules was exhausted and managed to sleep for 1/2 an hour in 90 degree weather on a blanket under our umbrella. She is literally the best baby.

We celebrated Emilia's birthday early so she could have a Friday night sleep over. She had 4 friends, including one boy (who she was surprised she couldn't ask to sleep over, too--I love innocence!) come. One girl got sick and left within an hour of the party starting, poor thing.  Everyone else watched a movie, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows, and burned their math books. Emilia said it was the best party she ever had.

I went to a couple open houses last Saturday and the picked up Mira and Cecily who had stayed overnight at the Childress's house. When I got home, Steve had chopped down a large portion of our front tree (just cutting off lower branches) and I got to help him chop up the branches and take them to the dump. The pile was taller than the bumper of my dad's truck when I was done unloading it!

I found Jules sleeping like this the other night. It was adorable. Also, I need to get a bumper so she stops getting her legs stuck.

Cecily got a paper at church today to color & cut out a puppet that had Saul on one side and Paul on the other. 
Cecily, holding the puppet after dinner, showing the side with Saul: I'm mean and I would never do a backflip.
Flipping it over: I'm happy and nice!
*flips it over it's head like it's doing a cartwheel*
I would totally do a backflip!
*grins*

Megan got into town Monday and we've been spending time with their family and helping my mom get stuff ready for my sister's wedding next week.

We had at least one showing every day for the first 10 days after we put it on the market and then they just stopped. We've had one showing since last Saturday. :(  So I cleaned all the family pictures and any extraneous stuff I could out of all of the upstairs rooms and we dropped the price again.

Thursday, my sisters, mom, niece and I got pedicures and went out to dinner in place of a bridal shower for Alison.

Yesterday, Steve and I went to the temple with everybody as James went through for the first time. We were late and I felt terrible about it.

Hopefully the depression medication will help me to find my groove again soon and I'll be up for doing these posts more often.

Too lazy to put the pictures in the right places

Sunday afternoons have been really hard lately. There's so many people to entertain and coordinate and we have to figure out what to do for our home church and then execute it and we no longer have the luxury of having someone make dinner for us and I just don't have the brain power to blog about the week at the end of the day. My kids are getting on my case though. They love reading these posts. So here I am, trying.

We have finally listed our house for sale. We changed light fixtures, updated the master bathroom, cleaned the carpets, cleared out a ton of junk, straightened up the garage, took loads to the dump and to DI, sprayed down all the sidewalks and the back porch, weeded, cleaned windows inside and out, matched and touched-up paint, painted window sills that needed it, moved the baby into Emilia's room and moved Emilia downstairs, and took pictures. And we did all of that except the master bath and weeding in a 2-week period. I was exhausted afterwards.

Since listing it last Tuesday night, we've had 5 showings. No offers yet though. We'll probably lower the price on Tuesday. It's a such a competitive market.

Cecily had a dragon birthday party. I tried to keep it simple and held it at the park. One girl said this was her best day ever, so I suppose it went pretty well. We made our own "dragon egg" pinata that had dragon stuffies for each kid. That was their party favor and the basis for most of the activities. We did an obstacle course "training" with the dragons, made name collars for them, colored our own dragon eggs, played pin the fire on the dragon, and ate dragon-shaped cake.

Emilia had a writing camp each morning for a week. During that week, Cecily and Mira also had swimming lessons and it was one of the weeks we were getting the house ready. It was kind of a crazy week.

For the 4th of July, we went to Thanksgiving Point to watch the fireworks. We were expecting 90 degree weather. It ended up raining on us for a couple of hours with 10-20 mile/hr winds. And after it rained it was about 60 degrees (or colder) and we all froze in our shorts and t-shirts. The weather thought it was April. But the fireworks were amazing! I absolutely love sitting right under a fireworks display. We even had particles drop on us after some of them went off. Loved it! Though it freaked Mira out so much she just sat and cried the whole time despite wearing sound-deadening earmuffs. The baby slept right through it in her carseat in the car. She is so nice to us.