We've just been enjoying our Idaho summer over here. It got extremely hot for a couple weeks, so we got used to being inside a lot, or if we ventured out it was to go to the splash pad. We dared to take our littles to the Boise Music Festival in 105 degree weather. I'm not sure if it was the smartest move, but we had fun and no one suffered from heat stroke. We drank LOTS of water, kept the kids cool with wet cloths, stayed in the shade, and took off as much clothing as possible. This year's lineup included The Plain White T's (brought me way back to my high school/college days), Shaggy, Redfoo (Loved it!!), Nick Jonas, and Rob Thomas.
We also went on a short vacation to Grandma's house in Rigby over the fourth of July. We had tons of busy fun with Grandma, uncles, aunts and cousins. Cody's mom lives on the most beautiful property right on the river and it feels like a vacation home. While we were there, we enjoyed floating the river, fireworks, backyard swimming, a parade, a carnival, and eating so much we were never hungry. Everly got to spend the entire time with her cousin who's the same age. They didn't get along as well as we'd hoped this time, so there was a lot of crying and drama. We're hoping it's a phase that will pass before the next time they get together. We were all happy to have so much quality time with family, but we were also happy to end the crying and fighting and come home to our comfortable place.
Other than that, we've been doing the usual stuff: playing in the back yard, eating macaroni and peanut butter sandwiches, reading books, taking naps, making messes, cleaning up messes, doing laundry, baths, coloring, play-doh, parks, doing time-outs, riding bikes, etc...
Oh, and Everly's been wearing nothing but her "jingly skirt" around the house every day. :)
