The BEST Wedding Ever!

Can I just say that I have a new obsession? I got my first wedding invite via Facebook with a link to watch a wedding go down LIVE on the Internet. I didn't even have to pull out the spanxx and wrestle my kids into submission. I WATCHED A WEDDING in my pj's. And it was awesome! I was still raving about it at work three days later. I seriously LOVE this. Jamie and Clint got the wedding they wanted in VEGAS which was very sweet and intimate. But no one felt left out because EVERYONE got to take part in their special day. I'm still marveling at this genius of it all. People can elope without any feelings of guilt. I know what you are thinking. Wedding are recorded and rewatched all the time. But this was live! I know that Clint and Jamie are very lucky to have found each other and will happy and complete in their marriage. And I got to witness the beginning live on the Internet! So cool!

It's a....Hermaphrodite?

Please heed warning before you continue reading. You will be exposed to pictures of urine in this post. If that bothers you I give you permission to do something different with your time such as catch up on listening to the voices in your own head. It's your call...

So my sister is having a baby! It's so nice to have someting to be excited about. I get to have a baby without being pregnant! Of course I don't think that Heidi and Josh are just going to hand the baby over to me or anything but I'm sure it's going to like me best regardless.

While my sister is in town, we are going to have a garage sale. Actually she is having a garage sale with all of my stuff. When we were going through my garage, she just kept putting stuff in the sale pile without actually caring whether or not I still wanted it. Which is fine because most of it is Chase's crap. So on with the story. I asked her what of the baby stuff she wanted and she told me that she wants a few things only if she's having a girl. Naturally. I am personally very much ok with boys in pink but I respect that others are not. But being that our garage sale is going to happen soon and her doctor is three states away, we were in a predicament. But I watch reality TV. I knew what to do!

Intelligender!

I am pretty sure that this means she is having a boy. Though I could be wrong because it was super confusing. Maybe she's having twins. Maybe it doesn't work (doubtful, I know). I have to say that I was very disapointed in our first Intelligender experience. Who would have guessed?

A Litter of Little Girls

Seriously peeps? How do you sleep with 8 little hands and 8 little feet jabbing you from all angles? It’s not easy!! It all started with the girls sleeping in a fort (or princess tent as we called it) in front of the TV. The two night owls of the bunch, Natasha and Marley, were keeping the others awake so I pulled them into my bed. This was around midnight. MIDNIGHT!!! I didn’t even know the freaking clock went that late. Around 3 a.m. Jhanna wandered in. She curled at my feet and went right back to bed. Sometime after that I was trying to establish if I had any feeling left in my toes after being cruelly ribbed kicked all night when I couldn’t figure out what my toes were touching. I just laid there, wiggling my toes, trying to have a complete thought when all of a sudden I heard little Jhanna say, “Stop messing with my ear.” The poor thing had my gross toes up her ear. Which explained A LOT. Yes I did have feeling in my limbs and ears feel weird on toes. Sometime after that, Izzy came tornadoing in. If you don’t think tornadoing is a word, you have never met Izzy. She came and literally cannon balled on me and pushed my pillow on the floor to make a spot for her. Then took the little slab of corner blanket I had been using. My freshly dry cleaned WHITE bedspread was on floor at this point so I just gave up and got out of bed. Who would have ever guessed that four such tiny things could take up so much room?

First Ice Cream Cone, NOT First Mommy Mishap

Last week I got Cambri her very FIRST ice cream cone.

And for some reason, I thought eating it in the car would be ok. I obviously have extremely high standards for my one year old. She failed. Miserably.

At one point (pictured below) she dove in with her fingers. Her little inexperienced baby mind didn't realize that trying to pick up ice cream on an extremely hot day was not a good idea. Shouldn't her older, more experienced mother have realized this?

I was too busy taking pictures because she was so cute. I then spent an hour scrubbing my car, my car seat and her beautiful dress.

Lesson learned.

But instead of taking a boring old bath for cleaning up baby, I put her in the kiddie pool.

And she hated it.

She just wanted to sit in my lap...

or sit on the grass and cry!

So I ended up just throwing her in there with her big sister. It only took a few minutes for her to start having a good time. This was a good precursor for her Mommy & Me swim lesson.

What a beautiful baby!

Happy 4th of July! Or 3rd of July in our case!

I hope everyone had a great weekend. The Burke house was super busy. On Friday night we went in to the Drive In. It was Natasha & Jhanna's first time so we made sure it was a super good time. We put a mattress in the back of Chase's truck and off we went. The first movie was Furry Vengeance, which was as lame as lame could possibly get. The second movie was Eclipse. I fell asleep.



The next morning we went to the parade. My brother-in-law, Cody, got there at 6:30 to save a spot and he let those of us who stayed up WAY too late the night before squat at his feet. It worked out perfectly (for me anyway, maybe not for Cody) to roll out of bed at 9am, dress the kids, and see all the parade in a front row seat.

Later that night, we went to the fireworks. Some major hooplah was going around town about the fireworks being held on Saturday instead of Sunday. As far as I'm concerned, it should be on Saturday every year. It works best for me! I would have been dead at work if I had stayed up late on Sunday. So I was ok with it. A few weeks ago, Paula asked me if she could park at my house so she and her family could walk down to the river. Naturally I agreed, wondering if she realized how far it was.

She inspired me. Being that I really had nowhere else to go, I loaded the girls up and off we went. Walking 2.2 miles at 8pm isn't so bad.

Walking home 2.2 miles at 11pm sucks! The girls were feisty. Luckily Paula and the fam caught up with me and so I wasn't completely alone. Not having my mom on holidays makes them super hard and Chase being gone just made it worse.

Something did make me laugh this weekend though. When I went to put gas in Chase's truck.

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Cambee's First BIRTHDAY

Little Carmbri turned one yesterday.

And let me tell you, she ate cake.

Izzy, Natasha & Jhanna were super helpful and baked little Cam Cam her own cake. They even frosted it themselves.

I hope that Cam Cam gets to feel like a princess on every one of her birthdays because she really is one. Happy Birthday Cambri!