Jordan turns 1 on Saturday the 14th.

Since Bracken is in a wedding on Saturday (Jordan's 1st birthday), we won't even get to see her. Not that she'll be old enough to know the difference, but still. I hadn't gotten a lot of pictures of her in her "wedding dress" as she slept through most of Rebekah's wedding. I attempted to take her to JC Penneys today. We got pictures of her by herself in another outfit, but when all 3 girls got in their wedding finery, Jordan just bawled. So, later on I just did my own photo session (much to my husband's dismay). Well, I thought they turned out fine. :)

We also have been trying to enjoy summer break. Finally, today we had a day without rain. Yesterday we met a playgroup at a park--it was sprinkling when we arrived but cleared up some. The girls and I even attempted the beach after that. However, though it is not nearly as bad here as it is in Iowa, there has been so much rain that the channel we usually play in was more like class 1 or 2 rapids. So, we mostly stayed on the beach and pretended we were warm in the sun. Tomorrow it might get close to 90, so we'll try again if we get all of our packing done early on. It's another wedding weekend trip to Iowa--18 hours in the Jetta with 3 kids is certainly an adventure. You know, it seems kind of bad to just put movies in the dvd player all the time, but on the other hand, when we were kids, we didn't have to be strapped into car seats the entire time either. We're halfway through Anne of Green Gables (the book), so maybe we'll get a chance to finish that as well (if Bracken can stand it!).