You know you've reached a whole new level of entertaining...

...when you get the cops called on you. Obviously, we aren't drinkers of any sort, we don't have crazy teenagers congregating on our front lawn at 1am (like our house in Cleveland), we weren't fighting and yelling profanities, and there definitely wasn't any music blaring. Nope, we were just playing a lively round of Taboo with the windows open in a quiet neighborhood at 9:30pm. Sweet, right? And by the time the cops got to our house, the game had ended and we were discussing the different TV shows we remembered from growing up. CRAZY KIDS!! GET THOSE COPS OVER THERE THIS INSTANT! We just all found it humorous, as did the cops, but they needed to "inform" us anyway that we were creating a disturbance.

Well, in other news, Dave needs to buy a shotgun. Or so he was informed multiple times at the fair when people saw this:

Stuffing their faces with cotton candy wasn't the best picture to show you how cute they were in their hats, but that's all I've got folks.

And I've got to include pictures of these amazing flowers from the fair-I can't believe how absolutely PERFECT they looked! And some of them were HUGE! The dahlias in this picture were easily the size of my entire hand spread out. I could only dream of having a yard full of them!

Dave took Emma golfing with him a couple times this week. The first time he hit a few balls that didn't quite go as planned and Emma just stared at him and said, "You're not a very good golfer Dad." And she would know. She watches golf on TV (the one channel we have-haha) with Dave and shushes us when they're hitting.

And Bree is still making us laugh all the time, especially with her jabbering and the way she pronounces things. One of my favorite times during the day is anytime after I've changed her diaper and she stands up on the changing table, all chatty and jibbering while I'm putting her diaper in a trashbag. She'll grab my face and pull it to hers and say, "MOMPF! Wooka me!" (Mom, look at me!) Then she'll proceed to tell me something AMAZING in whatever language it is she speaks, with her eyes wide and her head nodding. And I just laugh because she's just like me! She loves to talk! One day it'll be in a language we understand, but for now, I love her conversations. I really wish someone would invent a camera that can be implanted into your eyeballs so that you can record all those moments that you don't want to forget and want to share with others. I love that I'm reminded of some of the things Emma used to do b/c of the things Bree is doing now. Like right now Bree's bedtime book of choice is the Dr. Seuss "Put Me in the Zoo." There's this one page where the words are "And now you see I take them all and I can make them very tall." When Emma had that book memorized, every time we would say that phrase she would say in this really funny voice "It's a BIG one!" And that makes me laugh. Simple things.

Tomorrow (or I should say today-yikes, it's past midnight!) is the last day of "vacation." Dave starts his new job on Monday, and I'm so happy for him. And me. It's hard to get into a routine when he's home all the time. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE having him home, and I think I've probably gotten a little too used to his help around the house. But I think we're all looking forward to a more regular schedule...and maybe making an income too :)