Little Streaker

We have happily gotten to that stage where Gage will play happily in his crib for awhile in the morning before wanting out. Which is great considering he's decided to get up earlier and earlier these days. Lately, his favorite thing to play with upon waking? His pajama pants. This morning was the 3rd time I've gone into get him and he is sans pants. Luckily, he hasn't started taking the diaper off...yet.

Anniversaries

Inspired by the post below, every year on our anniversary we try to remember what we did on our previous ones. Hence this list is for posterity, and our terrible memories.

1. San Diego - We did Seaworld, the zoo, and the beach.
2. Las Vegas - Didn't do much gambling, saw a Cirque du Soleil, ate at Top of the World (and consumed an entire bottle of wine in about an hour)
3. The Melting Pot - yummy fondue dinner
4. Dinner and a movie (couldn't tell you what or where)
5. Wicked at Gammage and dinner
6. Dinner and a movie (no idea, again)
7. Gainey Ranch (see here)

Swankin' It Up

Last weekend we celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary (July 31st). We haven't gone away or done anything really spectacular the last few years and my awesome husband planned this fab getaway for our Lucky #7. It was all a surprise, and so worth the wait! We left on Friday afternoon for Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale where we were staying at the Hyatt. We started off with a quick tour of Spa Avania (complete with glass of wine) where I excitedly found out we were booked for a couples massage the next day! Then we headed to the hotel bar for the Arizona Wine Challenge wine tasting. They line up 6 wines in front of you, 3 from Arizona and 3 from Italy and you decide what you like best and at the end they tell you which wine is from where. And YUM they had this delicious cheese fondue that we practically inhaled. From there we headed to iPic in the Scottsdale Quarter which was perfect because we love to go to the movies and this was a great way to do that, only with big recliners, food, and sangria. We saw Crazy, Stupid, Love - romantic and funny.

We got to have a nice lazy Saturday morning, and hung out by the pool (and of course went down the waterslide). There were a lot of families and we really starting missing the kids, so we finally just stayed in the adults only pool so as to not get too depressed. :) We headed to the spa for our couples massage which was heavenly. Cam had never had a massage before and his response was, "Woah, shouldn't I have bought her a drink first?" He had also booked a manicure for me, hooray! That night we ate at Alto ristorante in the hotel and they have gondola rides in the evenings on the lake behind the hotel, complete with singing. Everything was so nice that all weekend we kept saying how we were "swankin' it up". Thank goodness for summer deals, restaurants. com, and facebook coupons to make it a fabulous and affordable weekend! :-) We were terrible about taking pictures so we snapped this one right before we checked out.

Sunday morning before back to reality. Ignore Cam's weird "taking this pic myself" face.

Sigh, I love my husband.

Sleepy reader

Addie fell asleep tonight with a flashlight and The Cat in the Hat. A girl after my own heart. :)

O Most Holy One

Before bed the other night (I'm paraphrasing Cam a bit here)-

Addie: What does "amen" mean, Daddy?
Cam: It means I believe.
Addie: What's the Holy Spirit?
Cam: It's the part of God that lives in us and that's always with us.
Addie: Can you see it?
Cam: No.
Addie: So it's pretend?
Cam: No, it's not pretend.
Addie: What's it do?
Cam: God's spirit stays with us to help us do good things.
Addie: What do you mean?
Cam: To help us be nice, to tell the difference between right and wrong...
Addie: What do you mean?
Cam: You know, being nice to others, manners, sharing-
Addie: (interrupts) -oh, the Holy Spirit helps me a lot then, because I am really good at sharing.

Bleh

I wish I had a cleaning service. I mean, I love our big house. But it's next to impossible for it all to be clean at once. Maybe when I win the lottery. If I played the lottery... Well, that's all.

4th of July

We had a nice relaxing 4th, well, 3rd of July. It was a great way to end our "staycation" week, and we are all sad for Cam to go back to work and start reality again. :) We went to my parent's to hang out and swim before we hit the fireworks in the evening. AZ City always does their fireworks on the 3rd, which is nice because everyone is usually off the next day for the holiday anyway. (I did have to work the night of the 4th, but no big deal since we had already celebrated, plus hooray for holiday pay!) Unfortunately due to AZ monsoons and dust, we didn't get to swim, but we did hang around the house and eat lots of cheese dip. MMM cheese dip. The kids loved the fireworks of course. Actually, Addie loved them and watched with wonder, pointing out her interpretation of the bursts. Red and green ones were "Christmas ones", etc. She was also excited to get another "glower" (all that glow stuff  is such a ripoff!), the one she got looks like a double lightsaber "just like Darth Maul".  Gage was so very exhausted by the time they started that he just watched in a sleepy daze. I thought he might get scared by the noise, but it didn't seem to bother him. It's becoming a fun tradition to do every year, and this year Addie was old enough to understand that we're celebrating America's birthday and not just watching fireworks for no apparent reason. I sincerely hope that our children will know and appreciate what a great country in which we live, and not take for granted the freedoms that so many of us do. Happy 235th America!