4th of July

It is crazy to think that my little E. is already six months old. That means we are nearing the point that he has been in our lives as much as he was growing inside me. But in honor of it being his half birthday and 4th of July I figured we should celebrate in true American Fashion.

We had a fun week in Colorado/Nebraska for the fourth of July Week. Since all the new Dental students had just started school the week before 4th of July they gave all the upperclassmen the week off. Apparently upperclassman freak out the incoming Dental students. Which is great with me because a full week with the honey is just what I needed.

After Class finished on Thursday we began driving to Colorado in order to surprise my mom. This is no small feat, one if you know my mom she knows everything, and two its an 18 hour drive so that in itself tells me that C. and I both deserve a medal because we all made it to Colorado still breathing. Well except for our car. The kids did awesome only a small amount of crying, mostly from E. Turns out our A.C had seized so first thing Monday morning we took it to a shop. Well they couldn't fix it so we took it to the dealership. Well they didn't have the part in stock. So then we waited, they fixed it turned out there was another problem and that needed to fixed and ordered etc. Long story short our car is enjoying a vacation from our two kids with my mom. Who is a much quieter and cleaner passenger. Of that I am sure. While .Cade and I get to ride around in a nice new Toyota highlander!

I am so not complaining in all honesty if my mom wants to trade vehicles for the next three years that would be all right with this girl. Yes my mom is a saint for letting us borrow the car . Again a saint, that I am so grateful to call my mom. Plus while we visited we got to do a lot of fun things and spend lots of time with family and friends. (picture overload)

     

Enough fun to wear these girlies out!

So then we went to Nebraska for the 4th, where it is legal to shoot off fireworks. We went wakeboarding and swam. A. had a blast!!! She still asks to go swimming with cousins. She also lost her CGM(a small electronic gadget that updates us on her sugar level every 20ish minutes) in the Lake. Now to replace it costs $500+, makes you a little sick right. After 24 hours of it missing, and literally trying everything that included snorkeling for it, using a metal detector and simply looking for it, we couldn't find it.   we were resigned to the fact that it was gone and we were just going to have to shell out the money to replace it. A couple dozen prayers later a friend dove into the water early in the morning while it was still and calm and he found it resting on the sand 10 feet down. Miracle. Here is how small it is and how lucky we were he found it. 

Its the one on the right.

Pictures of our Nebraska trip

     

Cade also went spear fishing unfortunately I forgot to take  a picture of that, or his awesome sun burn. All in All it was a great trip and a fantastic week.

We then traveled home and the kids slept from 9pm Colorado time to when we pulled into the parking lot of our Apartment in Michigan. Yay for an awesome trip…

But how could it not be awesome when you have kids like this!