How much fun can we PACK into one weekend?

The fun started for me on Wednesday when my sweet Mom came to town to help me organize my life.

We tackled the horrific job of switching out the girls' closets to only consist of the right size clothes for the current season. Sounds simple enough, right? WRONG! This overall process involves multiple trips to, and from, and back to the attic... (Collin's job, but still part of the process) Handling heavy tubs of folded clothes... Sorting through piles upon piles of baby girl ensembles and evaluating them to see if they meet a list of certain criteria.

• Are they Spring/Summer?
• Size- Which girl does the size best fit? ...Avery is a 2T-3T, and Julia is an 18 mos - 24 mos. Some judgement calls come into play here because they're very close to one-another in size.
• Are there stains? ...At this point if it's something worth fighting for, it would be thrown into a tub of color-safe bleach. If it's not worth the trouble in laundry, we'd throw it into the pile to be donated.

THEN-- (and this is a pretty BIG "then") after sorting through a never-ending GALAXY of handed down clothes (which, by the way, has been the most incredible blessing of my life as a Mom... so I'm not in ANY way trying to belittle that and will NEVER turn down a box of good-ol' previously-owned clothes) we finally hung each little top/dress/skirt on individual mini-sized hangers and carefully hung them in each girl's closet. In sections. By category. And by color. :) (Ok... so maybe I'm a little "Type A" when it comes down to it.) WHEW! What a relief to have that done and organized! (Thank you, Mom!!)

Before we had time to tackle many other projects, it was time for the next phase of fun to begin. On Friday we were joined by my Dad (Boppa) and by Jen, Andrew & Drew, and we all hit the pool for the better half of the afternoon. FUN. FUN. FUN. We're members of the Kaycee Pool this year and we love it. We've only been able to go a handful of times so far this Summer and I haven't posted any pictures yet from the pool, but I couldn't resist posting a few pictures we made that day... (I wasn't brave enough to take our new camera near the water, so these are old school.)








The kids seem to be natural water-dogs like all of us are. Avery asks almost every day if we can "go to the swimmin' pool." If I had an extra set of hands, I'd be there with the girls everyday. We only wish we could have kept the Bossens here overnight! But we sure had fun waving them off after dessert with the girls in their PJ's holding their flags...



The next day was the 4th of July, and it deserves it's own post... that'll be next!