Catching up

Brian is coming home tomorrow!!! I can't wait. He's been gone for 9 days and I worked the 3 days prior to him leaving so we haven't seen each other in quite some time. Probably the longest time we've ever been apart. On Sunday he spent the night in the "rainman suite" at the Feather Falls Casino in Oroville, CA. I guess when they went to the hotel before this one, he and his partner each got their own rooms so he promised them if that situation ever came up again he and Les (his partner) would share. Sure enough, at the casino there were 3 rooms available. As promised, he and Les offered to share a room (little did he know they were ending up in the suite while the other guys got regular rooms). The other guys were so bummed. Funny. Things like that don't usually work out in his favor. He said, he's honestly never seen anything like it... definately never stayed anywhere so amazing. Huge jacuzzi tub, amazing shower, several fireplaces, 3 plasma screen TV's and so much more. How romantic for them! I wasn't jealous at all (yeah right). That's where we're going the next time any of out parents come up. The suite is very reasonable. I think he said something like $230.00 per night or something. He started back to work on those fires (in 105 degree weather) at 5:00 am yesterday morning and didn't get back to base camp until 1:00 pm today... then he had to go back to Sonoma to finish is regular shift. He is so exhausted. I hope he sleeps tonight. We're supposed to have a "date" tomorrow morning and taking the kids to Kidspark. I think they'll have fun too.

I got home from my moms yesterday. Sunday night was rough because M caught the nasty stomach bug K had and vomited all night. Finally at 3:00 am I woke my mom up to relieve me for a little while so I could sleep. I new I had to drive home in the morning. Packing the car and driving home was rough. Thankfully, my mom was sweet enough to take my car down and have my tire checked (it was low and ended up having a nail in it), fill my car up with gas and get me a coffee... all before she went to work that morning. She is so sweet. M was a little puny during the day but better by yesterday evening.

Some pictures from our 4th of July BBQ.

M swimming. He always gives me a thumbs up if he sees me during his swim lessons.

K swimming with David (Lacie's boyfriend). Both kids loved him and he was so good with them. He hunted for bugs, played fire engines, threw them over his shoulder and chased them around. Let me tell you, K is boy crazy already. As soon as David jumped in the water, K jumped up off my lap and ran for the pool. "I go swimming." She flirted and giggled and smiled!!

Swimming with Lacie.

I found a recipe to make ice cream in a ziploc bag so we decided to give it a try. (yes, we own an ice cream maker butI thought the kids would really enjoy it). K had a great time, "shake, shake". M could have cared less, just wanted the ice cream. The ice cream was good but not quite hard enough. I think we should have shaken it longer. If interested in the website,
here it is.
Bag Ice Cream

Yummy.

Cute one of K. She's saying "cheese."

We did fireworks out in front of my mom's house. It was a lot of fun. I hadn't done fireworks at home in many years... maybe even before Brian. M was a little scared at first and wanted to sit in the back of my car. K was terrified. She covered her eyes and kept repeating, "scare me Mommy and too loud." I put her to bed and M stayed up.

My beautiful boy and I. He's more interested in the fireworks than the camera as you can see.

His favorite fireworks were the snakes. Do you remember those?

Off to pick up ... as usual.