Golfing!

As part of preparations for his golf tournament last week, Bret spent a lot of time with his golf clubs. Thankfully some of that time was spent at home washing all his clubs.

 

 

The girls had so much fun "helping" him! They even got out their golf bags and started washing their own. That only lasted for about two minutes when it all turned into a huge bubble fest.

 

 

 

After everybody had sparkly clean clubs we decided to go get them dirty again!

 

I LOVE the way Maycie golfs! She hits the ball as it she were playing croquet. She stands almost straddling the ball then swings the club out in front of her between her legs. 

 

I love watching Bret golf. This has always been the one thing that he loves to do. He's completely focused and in his element. That's why it doesn't bother me that he goes so much.  It makes me fall in love with him all over again when I watch him do something he loves. When we were dating and first married we would go to the driving range quite often. We would take Haylee in her little infant carseat and she would watch us practice. When she was no longer happy just sitting in her seat we slowly quit going. Then Bret moved to Vernal and we quit going all together. Last summer we decided it was time to start golfing again. We bought Haylee a set of clubs from our friends for $15! Can't beat that. I love that we've been able to make this an activity for the whole family. I enjoy this time we spend together. The girls love it too. They kind of get mad at Bret when he goes golfing because they want to go with him.

 

I want to get the girls in golf lessons someday! How cute would that be?!

 

Maycie only wanted to hit the pink ball. After a while she got tired of retrieving it and started playing her own game...

 

Seriously, how adorable is Haylee??

Home Improvements!

When you live in a trailer you don't get to do the more exciting home improvement things like painting or tearing out walls. What you get is more like changing the window treatments every day. And by window treatments I mean blankets hanging up to keep the heat out.

Wow, I just realized how trailer trash that sounds.

 

And you thought I was kidding, didn't you?

Someday all the décor will match.

 

This is how you install curtains in a trailer. Lovely isn't it.

 

 

Now that you're all laughing... Look at that light that comes in!

 

 

 Moving on now, the other day we added on to our house! All it took was 10 seconds and we have a new room! We Bret figured out that all it takes to put our awning down is the simple push of a button. Literally.

 

Awesome isn't it!

 

 

We walk by this thing a zillion times a day. Its right in our hallway.

 

 

 I push buttons on it at least once a day but I've never noticed, or connected the "awning retract/extend" button with the actual awning that is outside.

 

Bret put the awning down for the first time and it was amazing! It made things instantly cooler and now we can enjoy dinner outside more.

 

 

 

Its been great! The girls love playing under it. When its out they say they are playing in a tent. We've tried to be super sneaky so they don't learn how to operate it. Hopefully they don't catch us. I love how convenient it is. We can't leave it out all the time because of the wind so it definitely makes things easier not having to do it manually. I mean it might take us a whole 10 minutes if we had to do it by hand! Life would be rough. All joking aside, its just another little thing that makes me realize how lucky we are. We are so blessed to be having this experience. I realize so many families don't even have half of what we have. I really am one lucky girl.

Oh the carwash

Isn't the carwash such a joyful place?? Yeah, I feel the same way. Luckily this carwash was just built in the parking of the laundry mat so I don't have to hang out with my feet in the mud getting sprayed by dirty bug water that comes off the truck. It works out perfectly!

 

Haylee has always loved helping Bret wash his trucks.

 

 

Maycie on the other hand wants to stay far, far away!

 

 

I don't know how many times Bret had to rewash the front bumper after the girls found the bubble supply. It was kinda funny.

Why did I think this would work??

Yesterday was a busy day. We spent the morning in town with Bret doing laundry, washing his truck and shopping. He is in a golf tournament that started today and goes through Saturday so we wanted to spend some time together. When we got home he was invited to go on a "practice round"... they said it was necessary and had to happen before the tournament started. Sounds like a bunch of lame excuses to me. ;) Us girls decided to do something fun. Any guesses on where the little ones wanted to go? That's right, the sprinkler park. We spent a few hours there  and by the time we got home and ate dinner I was exhausted. I turned Netflix on and we laid on the couch watching Tinker Bell. It took everything I had in me to stay awake. Bret finally got home about 10:30, Maycie fell asleep right after he came home so I decided to just let Haylee finish a movie while I went and talked to Bret. Well, I'm pretty sure it took a whole 2 minutes for me to fall asleep (completely on accident). At 1:58am Haylee woke me up with the most excited voice, "Mom! MOM! Wake up! You have to come see this new show I'm watching! Its awesome!" Yes, she was indeed up all night watching kid shows. I thought for sure she would just fall asleep shortly after I left the room. I don't know why I thought that... she doesn't ever fall asleep with the tv on but it seemed like a good idea at the time. This was her this morning, ALL morning:

 

Do they need more parenting or less??

I've realized over the last week that maybe my kids need to get out more. Maybe they need more exposure to the world. Maybe they need more variety. Maybe I need to back off a little bit. Maybe they need to venture off on their own more. I don't know. Who really knows when its the right time to let your kids make their own mistakes? I'll tell you what I know, if my kids keep doing things like this when they are left to make their own decision, something awesome is bound to happen...

 

 

Maybe I should use sunscreen more?? (bahahaha yeah right) They have no idea how to use it!

 

Balancing watermelon act. Think she can make it to the circus?

(I'm soooo happy this didn't break open with her standing on it!)

 

 

Sleep talking...

Maycie talks in her sleep ALL the time. It cracks me up. She says some pretty funny things that I tell myself I'll remember but after I wake up again in the morning, the words are gone. Except for last night! Middle of the night, she started laughing, I mean full on laughing then she said "Haylee your jammie pants don't go over there" she giggled for another second then said "you're silly." Some nights I can get her to say more things by asking her what she is talking about. I wish I could have gotten more words out of her. I would like to know what Haylee is doing in her dreams!

4th of July Celebrations

Our 4th of July was a little crazy this year. Its hard to make plans when you're married to a roughneck. We didn't think Bret would be here so I didn't really plan much of anything other than to have hamburgers for dinner. Maycie is terrified of fireworks so I didn't plan on even watching any. Turns out, Bret was able to make it home in the afternoon. The only plan I changed was getting sparklers for Haylee. I knew I wouldn't have been able to do them on my own but now that Bret was here I figured we could celebrate a little. When it got close to dinner time we were invited to a last minute company barbeque. The guys had set up tables out in the middle of the driveway and were going to cook hamburgers and hot dogs. (I was happy we didn't have to cook!) Bret's rig is the only one working so those two crews were not here but everybody else was. It was fun getting together and meeting lots of new people. With the night crews sleeping during the day and the day crews out working we might see one or two guys here and there. Its easy to forget how many really live here! I always like the girls to be dressed festively, especially for the July holidays. When I found out we would be out in public I started digging through the two bins of clothes that I have stored in my car.  I found two dresses that I made for Haylee when she was younger. One fit Maycie and the other fit Haylee. It was a little tight around the top but she said she wanted to wear it. Everything worked out perfectly. We had dinner provided for us and we had a nice long evening with Bret.

 

Here we have Haylee playing football with the guys. She tried so hard to catch the ball or run to get it but never actually did. That didn't bother her though!

 

 

She LOVED the watermelon! I don't know how many slices she ate, she was in heaven!

 

 

Maycie sat on my lap, very cautiously, eating cheese puffs.

 

 

I asked the girls to go over by this chair so I could take their picture... Maycie would NOT get off my lap. Now when she looks at this picture she says I shouldn't  have taken the picture without her.

 

Just on a side note, this was the most stressful firework show of my life. People were just lighting them off all around us. There were kids running around with those lighter sticks, the ones with red hot tips. People putting those loud bombs by groups of people to scare them. Well, I'm pretty sure Maycie was the only one who was scared. She was in tears and crying to go in. She is so noise sensitive this was torture for her. We tried to keep her entertained and away from the group but it didn't last long. We tried to distract her with sparklers but she wasn't thrilled about it.

 

 

 

She glared at me with this face when I asked her if she wanted more:

 

 

Not happy. (Yes, that is a bruise on her forehead. She fell off the swings and landed flat on her face)

Haylee on the other hand was excited to play with sparklers. We had a bunch of different sizes, different colors and different spark levels. Seriously, some almost shot flames!

 

 

 

One family picture!

 

 

After hours of being a nut case due to the lack of supervision, safety and not being able to keep Haylee to stay a safe distance away from exploding things; I finally took her aside to have a little talk, I think I scared her to death. I told her she has to stay far away from the fireworks and she was not allowed to touch any until the next day. Some kids were grabbing them as soon as they quit sparking. I told Haylee she couldn't touch them because they could explode in her hands. Seriously, I scared her... but it worked! She even made sure to protect her friends.

 

 

I took this picture shortly after 10:30pm. See how light it is!? 

 

At this point Maycie was scared, tired and in tears. I took her in to watch a movie but she called Grandma Julie and Grandpa first. She talked to them for a few minutes then it was my turn. By the time I was off the phone Maycie was sound asleep in my lap. I laid her down, covered her up and went back outside.

 

 

We had a fun night together. I'm glad our original plans of doing nothing changed!

Hope you all had a great 4th of July!