Photo Challenge went ka-put!

Well that was a nice attempt at a photo challenge, huh? BUT (I don't think you're supposed to start a sentence with but...) BUT, in my defense I have a really, really good reason for not following through with it....(insert awesome excuse here)

You see, for Christmas my sweet husband got me an awesome iPhone 4s. The dumb thing about the iPhone 4s is that it's made entirely of breakable glass stuff and if you have any clue how awesome I am to my phones you know that a glass-ish phone is probably not the best gift for a person like me. So my sweet husband also bought me an Otter Box Defender which is supposed to be the toughest of the tough cases, nearly indestructible, they dare you to drive a car over it. I was so happy with my little phone all snug in its case from the second he purchased it until about a month ago when I was sitting in church and I happened to look down at my phone and noticed through the little vanity window that showed off the apple symbol on the back that my phone had a very fine crack in it. My beautiful iPhone that had not been removed from its indestructible, impenetrable case EVER. How in the world did this happen?! I was so shocked but afraid to see if there was any further damage so I left it in the case and began to mope. Luckily, my super intelligent husband knew that with me anything was possible and with that foresight he had purchased a special insurance from Best Buy for the iPhone that would allow me to get a replacement should anything happen to it, no questions asked. We pay $16 a month for that sweet little piece of mind and I'm so, so glad he did.

Anyway, we tried to take the phone in to Best Buy but they did not have any loaner phones available so we had to wait and wait and wait. Finally they had a phone available for me so I backed up my iPhone and then took it to the store. They traded my phone for the saddest looking android phone ever with the poopiest camera ever. It was awful. So therefore (long, long story short) I could no longer Instagram and keep up with the photo challenge. Isn't that a tragedy?

To make matters worse when I received my new iPhone a week later (last Saturday) and attempted to restore it from my back up it didn't work and I have now lost all my contacts and calendar information. So now that I have my phone back I'm too busy trying to get it back to normal to take any photos for the challenge.

I know you love to see all the many adorable photos I post, right? And your are sad and missing them, right?

Does this help?

Day 10: Smiles

Liam has the cutest smile. The end.

Day 9: Relax

Yes I'm fully aware I skipped Day 8. The theme was Sunset and I just wasn't cool enough to catch a sunset photo on Sunday. There are a few from Instagram that I'd like to steal and claim for my own though....see #connectwithPC on Instagram for all the amazing sunset pics taken by people who are much more sunset savvy than I.

Day 9 was themed "RELAX" and is taken from my Saturday at the pool. Does that count? Am I cheating if I use a picture from a couple of days ago? Oh well...

Here I am relaxing by the baby pool or should I say here is my big ole pregnant belly relaxing by the baby pool....

Day 7: Cook Out

Since it's been so hot we spend almost every other day, if not everyday, at our nearest community pool. I love our pool. LOVE! There is a lazy river, a kid pool with fountains and slides, and baby pool (where I hang out with Aidan most of the time), diving boards, 2 waters slides and various "BIG" pools. It's all contained in a smaller area so the big kids just go play and have fun while I watch (chase) Aidan and Liam between the shallow baby pool and the kiddie pool. It's such a relaxed situation (when Aidan isn't running full speed from one pool to the other while I slowly waddle to catch him) that I absolutely LOVE spending time at the pool. Saturday after running errands and cleaning up the house we took the kids to the pool and spent the next 4 hours there. Jeremiah left and picked up a $5 Little Caesar pizza and bread sticks for dinner and we ate in the pavilion at the pool. (Yep, you could bring it right in).

BBQ's are fun but $5 pizza at the pool is my kind of "Cook Out!"

The official Day 7 Photo followed by a couple from the pool.

Day 5 & 6: It's Hot, Stay Cool

Thursday the 5th it was 105-ish degrees which sounds like nothing considering we lived in Las Vegas for almost 9 years BUT it was also roughly 400% humidity that day. Disgusting.

I don't know how much of a "Stay Cool" tactic it was and how much of a weird pregnancy, no I don't have anemia, craving it was but I headed down to the QuikTrip for my daily (sometimes bi-daily or tri-daily) 52 oz cup of crushed ice.

This ice is seriously amazing. I used to be in heaven with Sonic Ice but now I'm pretty much in love with QuikTrip Ice. It's pure crunchy, crunch, cool yourself down in the hot, hot sun, JOY. A cup of solid...liquid...no solid HAPPINESS. I purchased my first 52 oz cup of ice for 38 cents and now I can go back as many times as I want with my big cup and refill for FREE!!! Take that Sonic Ice!!

I seriously think I'm gonna have issues parting with my ice addiction after the baby comes.

And like I said earlier I absolutely do not have anemia....I know because they've tested my blood several times.

I just have a healthy?! Natural?! Craving for Ice. :)

Crunch, crunch.

Day 4: Independence Day!

We celebrated the 4th with friends (in 108 degree weather for 6 hours straight) in Independence, MO next to the LDS Visitors Center. There were so many kids in just our small group that our children had fun playing sidewalk chalk, four square, and kick ball for hours. Before dinner the dads got together and took the kids to tour the visitors center while the moms played Phase10 and ate way to much junk food. Dinner BBQ was typical and delicious followed by more games and chatting. Lastly, it was time for the huge fireworks show. It was incredible! We were so close that some cardboard from the exploded fireworks landed on our friends blanket! (I promise we were behind the rope!) the show lasted a full 30 minutes and was accompanied by the Independence Band. Half way through Aidan somehow fell asleep, although I don't know how because it was seriously so loud. It was a fun, fun, fun way to celebrate the 4th and truly I'm not sure there was a better place to celebrate Independence Day than Independence, MO.

Day 3: Bubbles

Julianna filling the sink up to wash her hands in soapy bubbles is a daily occurrence so when I saw the theme for today I knew this would be a fun picture to catch. I waited all day and sure enough....

Photo Challenge: Day 2: Backyard

Sidewalk chalk in the shade....and a shot of my icky toes that are totally in need of a pedicure! I seriously didn't notice they were that bad because my belly covers them!! ;)

Photo Challenge: Day 1: My Life

My life, my world, my everything. On our way to church in our patriotic Sunday best.

July Photo Challenge

This month I'm doing the Paper Coterie Photo a Day Challenge on Instagram. I thought that it would be fun to post the photos here as well as on Instagram. I'll likely write normal blogs through out the month too, but each day of the challenge I'll be posting the photo that goes a long with the theme for the day.

Below is the theme for each day of the month of July: