Back to Normal... Almost

So Princess Jenn and her PIT daughter Carly are gone. I had really wanted a pic of the three of us but it turns out that even though we posed, the pic never happened. It sucks but then I just have to fly back to get a pic. I did get a couple of them together:


Carly never did warm up to me or Dan, she sort of looked at us as competition of her mother's time and love. She did love the dogs and the evil cat Duncan who kept swatting at her and got her good a couple times, but like Tina and Ike, she kept going back for the abuse.


Since Jenn arrived a week ago we've had fire after fire and none seem to be slowing or stopping. On Sunday my brother and two of his kids came over for a swim. This was the pic from my backyard:

Probably not the smartest thing to have kids swim but when it's so hot and there' not much else to do and you have two overly active kids that you need to ware out there aren't many free options available.
So on Saturday we had our movie night. Lots of people, lots of food and I think people had fun. Got a lot of compliments so that made me feel good. Unfortunately I started feeling like crap Sat and it took a lot of effort for me to make it through. We ended up having 45 people over. I really need to get a couple long tables to help make serving food easier. We borrowed enough chairs for everyone to be able to sit and enjoy and we're really lucky that we've never had a mosquito problem.