Living the Life and Loving It!: Fourth of July Weekend 2010!

I LOVE holiday weekends! And not just for the fact that Micah gets to have a LONG weekend with us either:) This Fourth of July was no exception!! We started off the weekend with a nice date night together, while the girls got to spend a few hours with Mommers and Dooders (man, it sure is nice having parents who live close by and are willing to fore go their date night so that we could go out!!). Micah and I grabbed a bagel at Bodo's and then a smoothie at Smoothie King and then we headed over to our soon to be neighborhood and checked out the progress of our new house!! It was a great date night!

Friday evening in front of our house....note that the HUGE orange dumpster has FINALLY been moved, but at least the matching port-o-potty is still there:)

Here we are in the corner of our very unfinished Master Bedroom!

Us showing our "bad" faces at the foot our our stairs!! I LOVE my "serious" Micah Cordon!

On Saturday morning before we headed to NOVA, Emily decided to play some nice music on the piano! She's a natural!

Then on Saturday we also headed to NOVA for a day trip! We got to sneak away to the temple while the girls got to get some play time in with some of their cousins and then Saturday evening we went to a birthday party for our good friend, Wyatt!! Emily, Haley, Micah and I all enjoyed our day of family, friends, food, and excitement!

Here's Emily playing with her new friend, Victor!! She really enjoyed all of his fun toys too!

Here's our dear friend, Norma, sneaking in a quick moment in time with both Victor, her grandson, and Emily!

I LOVE this picture of Wyatt blowing out the candles on his birthday cake!!

On Sunday, the actual 4th of July, we hung our flag and went to church! This Sunday was also memorable as it was Independence Day it was also Emily's FIRST DAY of NURSERY!! Micah took her and dropped her off and he said she only seemed a little sad then. Apparently she got a little more sad throughout nursery and then one of her teachers carried her around the halls and she fell asleep and slept for about 20 minutes and then when she woke up, she just wanted to be held for the rest of the time! So her "first official nursery experience" wasn't a total success, but it wasn't a complete failure either! So, we will just have to see what this week brings:)

On Monday, Independence Day observed, we spent the morning at home just chillin' and spending some time together. That evening we decided to go back to the splash park. For one, because Emily LOVED it so much and two, because Micah wasn't able to come with us last time! We had a nice time together.....Emily wasn't as fond of the park today, but Haley absolutely LOVED it. Before we went we couldn't really take Haley out because the sun was too bright and hot, but since we went so late in the afternoon the sun was behind the trees more so we were able to bring Haley out to play too!!

Emily and Her Daddy!