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Apricots

While Sam was down with his surgery, Chris and Lexi had pink eye and Seth was throwing up Apricots were ready. My Parents brought us down quite a few and then we had some off our tree. So I made a lot of jam and some apricot nectar, and bottled some, and pureed and froze some for baby food for Lexi.

Plantains, Pontoons and Snowflakes

Sam does a lot in the community. He networks quite a bit and is a member of tons of groups. These groups often have drawings or want to share what great new product they have. So Sam in one of their things won tickets to the Blue bird Cafe up at Sundance. 

-The Original Bluebird Cafe is in Nashville and only seats about 100 people it's where song writers come and preform their new songs to see how people react. So to share the love of the Bluebird they pick a few song writers and have them do a few shows around the country. And Sundance was one of the stops. 

But to start the date off he took me to dinner at the Maize Grill. It's in the University Mall (not in the food court but in a store front) It's Venezuelan food. It was really good. Almost all the menu is gluten free. We are open to trying new things so we told the chef to surprise us with our dinner. He made us a Plantain Sandwich with pulled pork, veggies and a really yummy sauce. He also made us a Chicken Arepa, and Beef Empenada.  It was all really good. And again Sam used a gift certificate that he got from one of his things. 

Then we got Ice Cream at Baskin Robbins... again he had a deal from his work. 

Then we headed up the canyon to Sundance. 

It started to rain. But we didn't care I love the rain.

So when we got to Sundance we parked, rode a bus down to the ticket office, got our tickets, then walked over a field to where a tractor picked us up in it's large trailer. It pulled us up a very steep hill. And dropped us off at the amphitheater. Where we found a seat and cuddled. It was nice and quiet.  The stage is in the middle of the forest.

 We saw Luke Laird, Josh Kear, Natalie Hemby, They have written songs for Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum stuff like that. They sang some of their songs some we had heard some were new not picked up by a performer yet. There was one song that was a joke song about riding a pontoon boat it's going to be a big country hit I'm sure of it. One of the performers also did a white guy rap his rapper name was snowflake. 


It stopped raining a few minutes into the show. And was just heavenly. Ok so they aren't the best singers. I get that but I love listening to songwriters. I always have. I don't know to me it's like you are hearing their heart... where the music came from. I don't know it was my kind of thing. 

So after the show and an encore we walked down the muddy hill, caught the bus up to our car and headed down the canyon for home. It was a wonderful night spent with the man I adore. And it was even better that it didn't cost us anything more than gas.

5 months

To My Lexi:

As I sit here writing this letter to you, you sit contentedly on my lap.  At 5 months, you are such a happy content baby...as long as you are being held.  You LOVE to be in someones arms.  And who can resist your chubby cheeks, big eyes, and fly away hair!  If I don't quickly come to your rescue, your Daddy or big brothers do.

Although you are held a lot, you have mastered the art of rolling.  For several weeks you have been rolling from your back to your tummy always getting upset that you were stuck on your dreaded tummy.  But in the last couple of days, you have learned just how to go from your tummy to your back.  Each time it startles you but if I follow it with a "Yeah Lexi!" you seem pretty pleased with yourself. You have started rolling from your tummy to your back and back again to your tummy. You are so happy that you have moved and figure out that this gets you closer to Lucy who has laid across the room.

My favorite thing about you this month is the way you flap your arms and kick your legs in excitement when you see something that you like.  It is the cutest thing ever.  I go get you from a nap...you flap your arms and kick your legs.  I come into the room while you are playing on the floor...you flap your arms and kick your legs.  Your brothers do a little dance to entertain you...you flap your arms and kick your legs.  I can't get enough of it.  I hope it isn't something that you quite doing anytime soon!

We have been working on getting you to nurse. This means I spend a lot of time trying to pump so my milk supply will build up. But you are worth every moment. 

I love you to the moon and back!  Happy 5 months baby girl!
Love,
Your Mama

Seeing Red

What can I say? The kids loves him some Cherry Limeaide Snow Cones.

BackYard Camping

The boys filled up their behavior charts again and to them nothing is more fun than camping with Daddy. So they set up the tent, lite a fire, roasted marshmallows and had a blast.

Splash Pad

Sam and I told the boys if they could get their jobs done then we could have a picnic and go to the splash pad. They got them done so we headed off to play in the water.

By the end they were all tuckered out. 

Lexi was there too, and she even got a little wet. I just didn't get a pic of it.

Just Because

Sweetest thing you've ever heard

Daddy Day off

So Sam spent a few days home after the surgery.

And he spent most of the time like this.

The kids love Daddy Days off.

Rolling Over

Lexi started rolling over at the end of June. So no more just plain tummy time... within a few minutes she rolls herself over and I put her back and she rolls again.

And this one just because she's cute.

Dancing in the Rain

One of the hottest seasons on record... 

38 days with no rain...

 And yesterday the rain came and it was so nice...

crib

She still doesn't sleep in her crib at night I just can't bring myself to let that happen yet. It still freaks me out about her breathing. Maybe when she gets over her cold. But I do let her nap in there during the day. And she seems to like it.

1st time in the Pool

 The last day of the 2 weeks of swim lessons is free family swim day. So we went before Sam had to go to work. It was Lexi's first time in the pool. She LOVED it!

 Lexi lounging in her floaty

 She loved the water

 The boys love the slide

 The boys loved jumping in off the side to Daddy

 

 Lexi fell asleep in the pool

So that was our day at the pool and Lexi's first time swimming.