In other news...

We've had a lot going on lately!  After our trip to California we were home for a week before heading to the beach.  It was an all girls trip and we went with Mimi and Heather for 5 days.  We had a great time but we really missed Daddy (and his hands to help carry everything down to the beach)!  At times it seemed like more work than vacation-2 young kids at the beach means LOTS of stuff!  :)  Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures to document Josie's first beach vacation (I know I'm a bad mom) but see my previous sentence for an explanation.  :) 

After our return, I hosted a baby shower for my friend Merrilee.  She was pregnant with her second girl-her first daughter, Kendri, is Juliann's bff.  For her gift I made her a diaper cake which doubled as a center piece on the dessert table. 

We had the shower on Saturday and Rylin was born on Monday (her birthday is 8-9-10, how cool is that?!?)  We went to visit them a few days after they returned home and the big sisters had a ball playing!  Here are a few pictures from our visit:

holding Jules and baby Rylin

the girls playing

Joselynn has been growing like a weed and it seems like she's always doing something new.  She loves sitting in her bumbo while Juliann's eating lunch.  I swear she is always smiling and is one of the happiest babies EVER!

happy girl

bath time!

After all our traveling this summer, we've been trying to get back into a routine with the girls.  All was going well until early Saturday morning when Jules woke up at 3am.  She was burning up and had a fever of 102.7.  We gave her a fever reducer and attempted to cool her down.  The next morning she was still burning up so we took her to her pediatrician and found out she had strep.  :(  Poor little girl felt miserable and spent the whole weekend taking medicine and napping twice a day.  By Monday she was feeling more like her old self and was finally hungry again.  She wanted a hot dog so we let her eat it like a "big kid" and she loved it!

poor sick little girl

yum!

We're very glad she's feeling better.  I missed hearing her laugh and watching her love on everyone when she was sick!  Yesterday she did the sweetest thing-I was vacuuming and she came over, shut the vacuum off, looked up at me and said, "I love you very, very much.  Kiss please?"  I almost cried because it was so cute!  I'm such a lucky mom!