It's just flown by

Well, hello. We've been back from the beach for almost two weeks now, but it's just flown by. We were majorly under attack by ants when we got home which called for a different kind of ammo then we have been using. So we turned to GRITS! We spread it all along the perimeter of the house and it has seemed to help a ton. Google it - it's crazy that it works! So there was that and of course getting the sand out of/off everything and things put away. Then, we started to get back into the swing of things around here. Later in the week, I had the pleasure of watching Lovebug's two sweet cousins...and WOW, three kiddos is hard! One is alot of work, but three was crazy (as many of you know!:). I love the above shot of them all sitting and snacking! So cute. My awesome mother sent over a big box of her jewelry to play with which was a big hit, and Lovebug just adored having them over here all day!

That same day though we very unfortunately had our first emergency room experience. Lovebug fell and hit her forehead on our bleepin' sunken living room step. It started bleeding so badly at first and really scared me but head wounds apparently do that. We debated about taking her, but it was a gash and we wanted to be safe rather than sorry. Our first experience went pretty well though I suppose since there is an ER 5 minutes away and there was not a single soul in front of us! We were in and out in 45 minutes with Lovebug getting her forehead glued up rather than stitched. She was so still, patient, and just did wonderfully through it all. We were so proud of our brave little girl! Anyway, all is well and it seems to be healing ok from what we can tell beneath the glue. I'm going to be oiling it up like crazy after it comes off to minimize any scarring though...

We knew there would probably be a fall at some point once the gates came down, but she has been doing so good with going up and down the step. The fall didn't even involve either really, it was just that she fell/tripped and hit her head on the step, which happens to be Mexican tile. Poor thing. Life without gates has been wonderful for all three of us so I don't regret taking them down, but I just really pray this is the worst thing that happens until we are able to take care of the situation in there!

So that is pretty much what our last week entailed...oh and lots of wedding designing/planning/researching for an October one, which is what took up alot of this week too.

Well, I better run, but I hope to share some shots from the beach next week. I have MANY to go through as you can probably imagine :)! We had SUCH a blast! Anyway, have a great weekend. We have two family birthday parties so it should be a busy but fun one...