Ahh summer!

I finally have the girls all to myself! I'm just so happy about that. I miss them both so much when I send them away to school.

Friday, Ryan and Alexis had appointments with the eye doctor. Last year, Alexis was a bit near sighted, but she has grown out of that almost all the way. He also said that she has slight astigmatism in one of her eyes, but it's not bad enough that she needs glasses right away. We're just supposed to see if she needs a cheap pair once school starts and she can use them just at school and when she's reading. We'll see. The doc also said that we need to put come warm compresses on the lump on her eyelid for about ten days and if it still doesn't go away, we need to get her on an antibiotic...and if that doesn't make it go away, we need to see an opthamologist to get it lanced. His guess was it was just a sty, which was my theory as well...but it's been there for months! Maybe just because it's not on her eye lash line, but way up in her eyelid. So, I have yet to start the compresses, but hopefully I can get that started this week. I don't want her on antibiotic while we're in Florida since that makes you a lot more sensitive to the sun. I don't want her miserable like Val was that one year!

Anyway, we got home from the appointment around 1 and headed straight to the pool. It was an awesome day to go because our neighborhood was having a two day garage sale so almost no one was at the pool. We stayed there until Ryan got home from work and then he came over and joined us. So I'd say we were at the pool for 4+ hours. Saturday was no different. It was supposed to rain beginning at 1pm, but it didn't. We spent the morning at the pool, came back home for some lunch, then spent the afternoon back at the pool. Yesterday we were at the pool for 3 hours. Needless to say, the girls were pooped after the weekend and Ryan and I have begun a good base tan for vacation.

We've been trying to wear the dogs out too. Across the bridge over the pond is an open field with tall weeds and a fence row. The past two evenings, we've taken the dogs over there to run. It's very rare to see Abby run that fast! We just let them off the leash and they think they're hunting. Murphy pointed an old bird's nest on the ground. Murphy is just so funny to watch because it's like she dives into the weeds and then all you can see is her head popping up as she hops through the weeds so she can see. It's pretty hilarious. Abby's not so into hopping, just tearing through the weeds, but she did hop a little bit yesterday. It's interesting that on the way across the bridge to the field, the dogs are just tugging like crazy on their leashes, but then on the way back...no tugging; the leashes are slack. We were a little worried that Murphy-being 10 years old- would be sore, but she must still be in really good shape because she has not slowed down in the least!

Well, now I've got to finish my trip planning and I have got to start getting the house ready for us to be gone. I'm ready to go on vacation!