Enjoying the rest of the summer

It has rained alot this July.  That's good for us because we have been in a drought the last couple of years, but it's been odd having cooler temps and having to schedule pool time around which time of the day it's least like to rain.  One Saturday we went to the pool and because it was cloudy and cooler that day we had the whole pool to ourselves:

 

It was nice and quiet for me but the girls got bored pretty quickly because they are used to having several kids at the pool to play with.

The girls have had fun playing a lot inside on rainy days.  Emily continues to wow me with her imagination.  I had a dream one night about her and told her about it.  So that day she tried to recreate what was in my dream.  I dreamed that she had taken her long band necklace that she made and put it in the trees outside and had all her dolls around the necklace.  Since she couldn't use the trees outside she did this instead:

We have also been trying to eat healthier this summer so we have been going to Trader Joes.  The girls like it because we can put our groceries in shopping carts just their size:

Joe and I have also enjoyed some nights out with friends.  Joe has gone to a couple of movies and dinner with his friend Jason.  I went to dinner one night with several moms.  Then Tara took me to a cool restaurant near midtown that played music videos and displayed them on the walls.  The booth that we sat in had couches for sitting and they gave us an ipad to place our order and used it to let the valet know to have our car ready when it was time to go.  Pretty cool!

I haven't been doing much sewing this summer.  Just taking a break from it.  But Emily did ask me to make her and her Emily doll a matching outfit so I worked on it this past week.  She brought her doll to church on Sunday:

Next week is our last week of summer!  Hard to believe.  Emily is very ready for school to start back up again.  We are having a staycation together next week which we are all looking forward to and during that week, Emily will go to her meet and greet to meet her First Grade teacher.  She asks me every day how many more days before she gets to meet her.