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Hello!  I haven’t posted in awhile.  Sometimes, the days turn into weeks so quickly — in a way, time flying is a good sign, right?  These hot summer days aren’t unbearable (yet) so we’ve really been enjoying morning coffee out on the back porch, trips to the pool, popsicles in the afternoon, and evening runs (for mom!) around the neighborhood.  The humidity has definitely started to set in so that’s been an adjustment — you basically just have to accept the fact that you are going to sweat … a LOT … and dress accordingly.  Which is easy for me because I’m usually in a sports bra and work out clothes anyway:)

 

 

 

I always say to people I’m a little nervous for a summer in the South because we haven’t lived through one yet.  Well, it’s definitely HERE, ready or not.  We’re doing fine so far, but I know it’s gonna get waaaayyy hotter + more humid than it is now — Lord help me!

 

Ok — what else?  My aunt and uncle were in Florida and came to visit us for a weekend!  It was SO good to be around family and I just loved having them.  Our spare room has gotten good use since we moved into this house and it makes us happy:)

 

 

 

And — more visitors — from Belfast!!  Yes, our first guests from our old hometown.  We LOVED having them.  I’ve been a little homesick for Belfast these past couple of weeks so the timing was perfect.  There’s nothing like catching up in person.

 

 

 

 

We said good bye to our sweet Irish friends this morning — I’m thinking that will be the last of our visitors for awhile since surely no one will want to come stay with us in this heat?!  We shall see.  The kids keep me busy enough and we are SO looking forward to our annual California trip in a few weeks.

 

I’ll leave you with this photo — taken yesterday downtown.  It’s totally acceptable to strip down to your underwear in public, right?  They couldn’t resist.  Oh to be a kid again:)

 

 

 

Saturday night we attended our daughter’s ballet performance.  ‘Creative Movement’ is the official title of her dance class that we go to every Tuesday evening … that’s one way of describing it;)  We were really looking forward to finally seeing the outcome of what the girls had been practicing behind closed doors for the past few months.

 

 

As the crimson red curtains opened at 6:30 pm sharp, parents’ faces lit up and our excitement was practically audible because, well, they just looked so darn cute up there — we couldn’t help it!  As the music began, I felt myself getting teary seeing my little ‘snowflake’ on the big stage.  However, a few seconds into it, it was quite apparent that one little snowflake was completely distracted.  Yep — it was my snowflake.  My tears quickly turned into horrified looks at my husband as we both made a face that said something along the lines of WHAT IS SHE THINKING UP THERE?!?  Oh dear.  At one point she was actually plugging her nose and telling the ballerina next to her (quite loudly, I might add) to do the same.  *sigh*

 

Oh well.  At least she looked cute, right?!

 

 

 

 

We left at intermission since her part in the show was over and we knew there was no way Eamon would last until the end.  Niall and I joked on the way out that perhaps we should look into a different extracurricular activity for our daughter?!  Ha ha.  Méabh seemed quite proud of herself so we just played along and told her she did great (while rolling our eyes at each other:)

 

On the bright side: she LOVED wearing her ballerina dress — and I’m thinking we’ll have to use it as a Halloween costume come October just to get our money’s worth out of it;)  And, as long as I don’t reflect too much on her dance moves — or lack thereof — I got some of the cutest snapshots ever:)