Ray Rah Sis Boom BAH!

OK, more catching up to do.

So after our week in Myrtle Beach, we came home to a week of Dance Camp in the morning(work for mommy, fun for girls)  and cheer camp at night for Miss Grace.  Can you say hotter than H-E-double hockey sticks?!?!?  The temps were in the nineties with heat indexes reaching 112.  Cheer camp was in the middle of a field, with no shade except for the tents brought by some of the parents.  The first night was the worst.  After each jump, chant or cheer learned Grace would plop on the ground to try to rest and drink as much water as she could.  After dance camp the next morning she pleaded to see if Grandma could come so she wouldn't have to go back to dance class. 
As the week progressed, we spent several afternoons at Walmart buying the appropriate colored shorts or shirt for pictures, first it was pink to match the camp shirt, which then changed to blue or black to go with the high school colors and totally not match the shirt; then we had to purchase black shorts and a blue shirt for the performance Friday night.  Each day Grace got a little more tired, the heat did get better and Lily was able to stay home with Daddy.  Each day Grace also started coughing a little more.  Not a huge whooping cough or deep guttural cough, it seemed to be just a tickle.  By Friday night she was barely eating, only drinking and ran a fever on Saturday. 
Grace continued to be grumpy the next week, not wanting to do anything until we went to the bookstore on Tuesday afternoon to get her free book from the summer reading program.  We then went to see Winnie the Pooh in the Theater.  We came home around 6:30 to eat dinner, daddy was teaching class.  As I was asking the girls what they wanted, Grace kept telling me she had bumps on her bottom that were really itching.  Upon inspection I realized they were hives and she was running a fever of 102.  We called Grandma and Papa and drove to the Children's urgent care facility closest to our house.  After watching the hives travel around her body, giving her Tylenol, a dinner of snack machine items and finally seeing a doctor, he did the routine strep test and a chest xray.  She had full blown Pneumonia!
I was in shock, I have no idea if it was the condo we stayed in that had evidence of mold or whatever chemical they used to spray the fields she cheered on or if she inhaled salt water that caused her lungs to become infected.  She had to take a STRONG antihistamine and zithromax to get better.  It changed our plans for our trip to Florida, we were supposed to leave on Thursday for Grandma and Poppops and she was supposed to get to spend the night with her cousin.  Instead we did not leave until later on Friday and no sleepovers occurred.  More on that later.

Lazy days of summer?

Wow, where did July go?  We spent a week in Myrtle Beach, a week sitting in the heat at Cheer camp and working at dance camp, a few days preparing for a trip to Florida and battling Pneumonia, a 6 day trip to Florida and then it was meet and greet, back to school shopping, birthday presents than bam it is August first and School is here.  It seems that gone are the lazy days of summer, no more days at the pool, or laying in our pajamas until noon.  School is in session, work is starting and life marches on....

But here is to the memories.  These are some of the photos from our trip with the Edwards to Myrtle Beach.  We had a great time and enjoyed seeing some of our Musser relatives.

I am hoping to get some of the other photos on here soon, but for now this will have to do.

Lily's doughnut

chocolate iced face after licking the doughnut clean

Grace's Brownie Dessert that she ended up sharing with Lily and Taylor and still had some left over.

Look down here Papa

Just playing in the sand.

She would lay in the sand and roll and play and build sandcastles all day.  Then we would have to give her like 3 showers to get all the sand out of her hair, bathing suit, diaper etc.

Loving on Cousin Taylor.