4th of July!

I was doing so well with my blog in May and June and now here it is, going on two weeks and no post. It's been crazy busy and crazy hot around here the past week and I love it. Cameron has been doing a three day Tumbling Camp at the park and we have been swimming and trying to get caught up on yard work in between. Luckily, Matt has been able to be home most evenings this summer so I have yet to venture up to the woods and stay in the trailer.

We are gearing up for birthday season, which is two weeks away. Tucker will be celebrating on the 18th, (his birthday is the 22nd) and Cameron will be celebrating on the1st of August (hers is the 4th of August). We are having a Handy Manny Birthday for Tucker and after much indecisiveness, a "Cinderella Castle" birthday. I have been looking up castle cake ideas online and I found one that looks awesome. It takes like 4 square cakes to build an then you add ice cream cones for turrets and decorate with frosting. I have recently been inspired by the show "cake boss" on TLC so I may be over my head with this one, but hey, what are kids for if not to keep you up all night building a castle out of cake?

And speaking of staying up all night. Tucker is officially off the bottle (yes, I know he's almost two) and sleeping all night in his own bed without any sort of rocking, rubbing of the back, coddling, or getting into bed with me. This is the first time in four years that I have not had to get up at night with a kid. I slept so hard last night my head hurt when I woke up, I thought I'd had a stroke, but low and behold, it's just what it feels like to lie in one place for over 8 hours and not be interrupted. I kinda liked it....apart from the dizzy stroke feeling.

Have a wonderful 4th of July. I swear we're the only people who didn't go anywhere this weekend, but it's going to be nice to just be low key and hang out with the kiddos. We're very excited to go see some "real" fireworks at the Island.