4th of July weekend

Well, we headed to Norris for the weekend.  It looks like such a calm place in this picture.  And it can be...

But don't be fooled for the 4th of July!  With over 100 family and friends there over the weekend, it was crazy.   We had lots of fun hanging out with everyone.  And we tried to stay out of the HOT sun and keep sun-screen on...but sadly all 3 of us got burned :(.  Livie enjoyed the little kiddie pool, the fish, the beach, and even went down the big water slide with Chad a few times!  Here's some pics of the kids playing...

Livie and Drake were fighting over those two chairs...

I think it was mostly Liv saying "mine! mine!"...

Livie and Wren

All 8 Herman girl cousins playing with body paint...Livie is the white one :)

By Monday morning we were exhausted.  Livie and I headed home around noon...and Chad spent the day at the lot with Traever framing up basement walls.  They got a lot done...but as Chad says, "The work is endless at this point". 

Remember in my last post how I said Livie was doing such a GREAT job sleeping in her toddler bed?  Well, things have changed a bit.  She's realizing that if she cries hard enough, we'll come in and try to calm her down and get her back in bed.  The thursday night before the 4th, we were up for almost 3 hours with her :(.  I think we learned our lesson that night - NOT to get up every time she gets out of bed or starts crying.  So, a baby gate is now at her door...and often we find her sleeping like this in the morning or even during naps.  She'll soon learn that her bed is more comfortable...right??

Yesterday, I had another doctor appointment.  I'm dilated to a 1 :).  Probably doesn't mean much as far as labor and delivery goes...but it just assured me that I'm almost done!  I cannot wait to hold our baby girl, love on her, and show her Jesus in this world...