LIKE SANDS THROUGH THE HOURGLASS...

(*That's a throwback to all the summers I spent in junior high and high school watching Days of Our Lives. Man, I loved that show and the summer always makes me think of it...)

Anyway, I have been wanting to do a "Day In the Life" post with pictures of everything we do in a single day. I always start off really well and then, by 3 or 4 in the afternoon, forget to keep taking pictures so it never happens. Well, my sister did one recently so that motivated me to finally get mine done. It isn't perfect and is probably quite boring, but for those of you who care, here is a picture diary of a day in the life of our family.


Breakfast of Champions: eggos and strawberries (and Baker's morning hair)

We were late for tennis (again).

But managed to make it for most of the lesson.

Cameron and I played on the playground (and, yes, we are still wearing jackets and it's almost July).

This is the part where we went to a friend's house and had a ton of fun and I witnessed no fewer than ten "Kodak moments" of my kids playing with their friends but my camera battery died, so I didn't get any pictures of it. And then we had lunch and quiet time. I don't have any pictures of that, either.

Discovered my peach tree is starting to produce fruit (I was super excited about this)*.

While I was outside taking pictures of the tree, the kids set up this "silly tea party." Seriously, they did this all on their own. I'm not really sure what the Star Wars playing cards are for, though.

Cameron woke up from yet another four hour nap.

And then threw a colossal temper tantrum. It was, miraculously, her only tantrum of the day but it lasted 20 minutes so I figure that evened things out a bit.

She was finally placated with a piece of raisin bread. She is obsessed with this stuff and single-handedly goes through a whole loaf about every three days.

Then the kids played with a pack of Star Wars stickers (it's the simple things, folks).

We had a quick dinner of cheesy scrambled eggs, toast and oranges so that we could rush out the door to go to...

...Lauren's softball game. Where Brian was the first base coach and we got creamed. Lauren spent most of her time in the outfield filling her glove with dirt and then scattering it around her. Then she had to go to the bathroom (on the other side of the whole park) so she missed an entire inning. They only play three, so that was awesome.

Then, Brian took the kids home for baths and bedtime while I went to Target and took longer than necessary so that I wouldn't make it home until after I was sure the kids were tucked safely in their beds (love ya, Bri!). So, I don't have any pictures of that part of the day, either.



(It was worth it.)



*While I was literally in the middle of writing this post, Lauren came in from outside to tell me that Baker threw his basketball at my peach tree and my one, solitary peach fell off. I almost cried.