Camera Dump

 

I found some pictures on my phone from way back in August that I never shared, so this camera dump covers three months. We had a few extra hot weeks this summer. Every once in a while it gets super hot and doesn't cool down enough at night. When that happens we have the kids sleep in our room since we have a window AC unit. I found these girls cuddling up together one of those mornings.

During that hot spell, we finally decided to get air conditioning installed in our house. The first time I ever even mentioned to Andy the possibility of getting AC was on a Saturday. To my surprise he immediately agreed and said that we should talk to our friend at church the next day who owns an AC company. On Sunday I talked to the guy at church, and he said he could come by Monday for an estimate. On Monday he gave us an estimate, bought the last AC unit at his supply shop, and installed it the next day. I couldn't believe the whole process, from our initial conversation to actual working AC in our house, took four days! After thirteen years of not having AC, it literally felt miraculous to have cold air coming down from our ceiling. We got it just in time too. A week or so later, it was 110 degrees in San Marcos. That was definitely the hottest it's ever been since we've lived here! 

I love when the girls play school. Their beanie boos learn so much. ;-)

We had a taco and movie night with Chloe and Lucas.

Actually, the girls had a movie night while the boys played video games upstairs. These two are so cute together. They definitely act like brothers minus any fighting!

Now that we don't have our big AC window unit sticking out onto our patio, I was able to make a nice little sitting area.

It makes me so happy!

My favorite time to sit out there is in the evening and read with our Mexican patio lights on. It's so pretty. The girls love it too.

One night Joey and Ellie both happened to have birthday parties to go to. Since it was just going to be Hannah at home with us, we made a meal that the other two kids wouldn't enjoy: a Chinese feast of orange chicken, potstickers, egg drop soup, and an Asian salad. We took this picture to show Andy's parents that we borrowed their fun soup bowls and Chinese spoons. And yes, our feast was VERY fancy as evidenced by the fact that our soup was served out of tupperware.

Have I mentioned that Ellie is into unicorns right now?? This is what her bed looks like when she makes it everyday.

Back in April, during quarantine, Hannah finished memorizing the Westminster Shorter Catechism questions 1-38. Because things were so weird for a while, we put off her little award ceremony, but she finally got her certificate. Joey had got his certificate three years ago with the other kids in his Sunday school class.

Hannah was the only kid in her class to memorize them all. 

Two kids down, one to go! 

Our sweet friend from church planned an amazing craft night for her daughter and six other girls from church. The girls made these darling pumpkin patch cupcakes and so many other cute fall decorations. On the way home Hannah said, "That was so much work for Mrs. VanOtterloo to prep all of those crafts!" It made me laugh that Hannah, my future teacher, would focus on all the prep that goes into something like that.