{"id":1186,"date":"2014-07-09T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:19:25","slug":"july-4th-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"July 4th Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em>This past weekend was 4th<\/sup> of July Holiday Weekend.\u00a0 It really was a great mix of family, friends, neighborhood, bbq\u2019s, pool time, fun, and even a few errands in between. <\/em><\/p>\n

The weekend started out with horrible thunderstorms late Thursday night.\u00a0 They lasted through the night and when I woke up at 5:00 a.m. to nurse Harper, I was a little worried that the neighborhood picnic event scheduled for 10:00 would be called off.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t have been worried though.\u00a0 In a few hours timeframe the weather turned sunny and was in the high 70\u2019s and not humid.\u00a0 It was gorgeous.\u00a0 We went to the event and had a chance to meet a few more neighbors, which was nice.\u00a0 The girls were a little too young to participate in some of the events but it was still really neat nonetheless just to see yet again what a great community we live in.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friday afternoon we set out to take pictures of the girls with the primary goal of getting a good picture of all three of them\u2026.one that we could use for their birthday invitation.\u00a0 EPIC FAIL in that sense!\u00a0 The girls just did not want to take their picture together. I don\u2019t know what was going on but they just wouldn\u2019t cooperate and all three stay put at once and that stayed true for the whole weekend.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday’s pictures and this includes several rounds of photo sessions throughtout the day<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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By the way this orange outfit has become Emerson’s all time favorite outfit the past few weeks.\u00a0 If the pants are dirty, she wears an orange skirt to go along with it.\u00a0 We do laundry fairly often so she probably wears this outfit about 3 times a week.\u00a0 Maybe I should do laundry less…lol.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Avery on the other hand is wearing one of her bathing suits from two years ago.\u00a0 I was planning on having Harper wear it and Avery wanted to try it on and I think it actually fit better now than it did two years ago…guess that diaper took up a lot of space!<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday\u00a0afternoon we went to Brophy\u2019s.\u00a0 Avery even wore this bathing suiit there….and not even under her clothes.\u00a0 This was her outfit!\u00a0 The Niday\u2019s were there as well.\u00a0 Emerson\u2019s tummy didn\u2019t feel well at first but after awhile I think she forgot about it and was fine.\u00a0 The girls had a great time playing with Hannah\u2019s toys and each other. \u00a0The girls are becoming increasingly independent in their play especially when we go to someone else\u2019s house.\u00a0 It is nice!\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

We got back to our house in time to watch our neighbors do a few fireworks in the cul-de-sac.\u00a0 All three girls were scared at first.\u00a0 We ended up putting Harper down to bed.\u00a0 Emerson eventually was okay watching them but covered her ears the entire time.\u00a0 Avery never really warmed up to them so she went inside with daddy to watch them from the kitchen bench. <\/em><\/p>\n

Saturday morning we went to the Farmer\u2019s Market. Karolin, our new au pair, even joined us!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saturday afternoon Justin and I did something that we don\u2019t do very often and actually spent 6 \u00bd hours together without the girls.\u00a0 It was good.\u00a0 We went for a nice bike ride to Reston followed by some yard work (mostly trimming our overgrown garden).\u00a0 Then after a quick shower we ran a few errands and even went to Matchbox for a late lunch\/early dinner.\u00a0 We got back in time to even spend a few hours with the girls before it was bedtime. <\/em><\/p>\n

Sunday morning we went to Meadowlark.\u00a0 While we brought the camera as we always do when we go to Meadowlark, the goal of the trip was certainly not to get a picture of all three girls together, but once we got there, I thought why not try AGAIN….<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Their lack of cooperation for the staged picture had me becoming increasingly frustrated.\u00a0 Justin kept having to tell me to let it go.\u00a0 Finally I gave up on the picture and we all continued to enjoy ourselves more. Thoughts of getting Harper in the picture\u00a0began brewing in my head.\u00a0 <\/em><\/em>\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0The girls started running in the fields and were having a great time!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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I thought if I placed Harper in the grass the girls could run on opposite sides of her and we could get a picture of all three of them and the girls would be more cooperative since it wasn’t as staged.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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As you can see both girls ran to the same side of her! \u00a0The idea worked much better in my head!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We got some cute pictures but not the one that I was trying to create for their birthday invitation.\u00a0 BUT I am all about the flowers….and I LOVE some of these pictures of my babies!<\/em><\/p>\n

Sunday evening we went to my parent\u2019s house for some pool time and a barbeque.\u00a0 Each time we go in the pool, the girls are gaining more and more confidence.\u00a0 I just smile as I see them playing in their rafts\u2026it is so cool to see these little kids that they are becoming.\u00a0 All in all we had a really good weekend!\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend was 4th of July Holiday Weekend.\u00a0 It really was a great mix of family, friends, neighborhood, bbq\u2019s, pool time, fun, and even a few errands in between. The weekend started out with horrible thunderstorms late Thursday night.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-july-4th"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}