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.