Action Packed Week!

Wow! What a whirlwind week it has been! Holly and I went to visit Heather in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday and Thursday. One of the things we did was go to a nearby stable to see friends. While we were there, Holly got an up close and personal look at a super nice horse. She was very interested, especially from a distance. She wanted Mama to pet the horse, but wasn't willing to give it a try herself. I can completely understand, since the horse's head is about as big as she is!

It came as a huge shock to her when one horse in the stable whinnied and "our horse" responded! She didn't know what to think of that, but decided it was kinda-sorta ok, since the rest of us just laughed.

After that, we went back to Chris & Dave's house. Their daughter, Margie, was in the arena jumping her horse. After lunch, we went out to watch and Holly must have decided that Margie's horse was better than the other one because she wanted to sit on it. She was very pleased with herself, too!After no naps for two days, I figured she would sleep all the way home. I was misinformed about that! She must have been saving her energy because she was like a little tornado when we got home. She went into the kitchen and was too quiet for a couple of minutes. When I checked on her, I laughed so hard! She has figured out that the drawers don't have drawer locks on them like the cabinets do. This has become a new favorite activity. For her, not me, that is.Saturday morning we spent at our Relay for Life team's luminary and bake sale. In came a scruffy, but adorable, little girl with coupons to get into the circus that evening. A circus in Lind?! We were shocked and amazed, too! They were just passing through to somewhere else and put on a show here, since they were spending the night. Overall, it was a pretty hokey circus, but everyone under 4 loved it! One of my favorite parts was when they put the lady in the box to change her dress and this guy put 3 swords into the box as she was doing it.

Then they put the same lady in this box, put the metal sheets into the box, then moved the middle of the box with the lady in there. Ooooh, magic! One of my friends said that her son might want to date that lady... Even though it was past her bedtime when the circus actually started, Holly was enthralled by the entire thing. She didn't want to miss a thing and watched every minute of it. Here she is completely riveted on something that was going on. Hands down, the best part was the poodles. They had a lot of them that were dyed blue and pink. (Don't go getting all up in arms about this. If you want to talk animal cruelty, Lind has had its share of bad luck the last couple of weeks, and dyed poodles don't count!) They were super cute and there were plenty of baby poodles, too. Holly and Lance had their picture taken with the two poodles in this picture. I still have to get a copy of the picture, but it was so adorable. Neither of them knew exactly what was going on, but they looked at the camera, so that's what counted. Maybe it can be their engagement picture when they grow up!

Several months ago, Grandma and Grandpa went to spring training in Arizona to watch the Cubbies. They brought Holly a Cubs T-shirt, but it was way too big. She has finally grown enough to wear it. Its still a bit too big, but she's not drowning in it, so I figured she should wear it on game day. They also got her a cute pair of Cubs socks, but Mama has apparently lost one of them, so Holly only wore one sock all day long!
Monday night, Mama went to play bunco and Holly got to hang out with Andrea. She LOVES Andrea! They went swimming at the pool, went for a walk, and watched some tv. Holly saw that Andrea had her toe nails painted and kept pointing to Andrea's toes, then to her own. She wanted Andrea to paint her toe nails, too! Smart girl that she is, Andrea found some nail polish in my bathroom and granted Holly's wish. Andrea said Holly didn't sit very still, but they look great to me!
I don't know what kind of mischief the two of us will find to get into this weekend, but I am sure it will be something. Its only a month before I go back to work, so we better get all the fun we can in while we still have some summer left!