Wedding Present

Part of the reason I haven't been able to keep up with my blog is that I have been working on a wedding gift for my brother and his fiance.  It's not done yet, but here's a sneak peek:

First Day of School

Today was Nate's first day of school.  He's going to half-a-day preschool, and he loved it.

Breakfast before school

Baby Injury

The other day T.J. called me on my way home from work.  This was unusual because I had talked to him just a few minutes before.  His call was to tell me that this had happened to my baby:

For those of you not from Texas, those are fire ant bites.  And not just a few fire ant bites, my poor baby had over 50 ant bites on his two feet up to both his knees.

Sadness

Today for the first time ever Nate asked for his Daddy when he got hurt.  He was crying uncontrollably and wanted nothing to do with me.  I was unable to comfort him at all and TJ was working so unavailable to help.  Nate was stuck with me.  The big injury: his first bee sting.

The Boys Will Play

TJ just got back from a short fishing trip with a couple of his good friends:

While he was away the boys and I had a lot of fun playing in our pool and generally hanging out outside.  I treasure my time with these two rascals:

Busy Month

July was an extremely busy month for the Muir clan.  We spent the weekend of the 7th and 8th with one of T.J.'s good friends at their house swimming and hanging out.  The next weekend my sister, Laura, and her boyfriend, Mitch came over for a night.  The big boys went fishing and Laura and I hung out at the house.  Then the big trip arrived, Kabetogama.  This family vacation is a blast for all of us and the boys can't get enough.  I could describe it all in detail, but I'll let the pictures tell the story.

Date Day

My work has been extremely busy for the last week. Last Sunday we converted from paper charting to being entirely on computers. It is awesome, but in an effort to help out during this stressful week (and make some extra cash for upcoming trips) I have worked six of the last eight days. Now you may think no big deal, but those are six twelve hour shifts. With my commute that makes my days at least 14 hours. On my two days off I did stuff around the house on one day, and had a date with this fellow on the other day:

We spent the day running errands (or Erins as Nate calls them), getting haircuts, and going out to eat. Nate was very well behaved, and we had a blast. We ran all these errands on Katy, which Nate insists is his best friend. I had a hard time explaining to him that Katy is a town and not a person. All in all a successful week and date day!