Underwood Family: Play Time

The money that Shannon makes this summer is his play money. Callie thinks she has hit the jackpot. The first week he bought a pool and the second week a new swing set. A company here makes the swing/play sets but doesn't sell them as that would be competing with their buyers. However, they are expanding right now and so I guess they must be cleaning out. They are selling previous year models that were sent back to them because of missing parts, etc. They took the good parts and made new sets. They were almost half price so a good deal. We had an old set that we got three years ago but it wasn't new when we bought it and now it was needing some boards replaced. Callie can't decide what to do first when she goes outside. Chase is warming up to it all.

Callie was so excited to have everyone over for the 4th. Shannon got some old fireworks out a few nights before and they were setting them off. Some are quite old and one went kinda out of control and flew toward them. She was NOT impressed and didn't want to do any more of those. That night she had been in bed almost an hour when she came out and said to Daddy that she didn't want to buy any more of those fireworks "like the one that was trying to catch me" :-) It looked like pops and smoke bombs for us again this year. But she was still so excited for everyone to get there and to do the fireworks. Everyone arrived and she just went to pot. She cried and would hardly do anything all night. It was an exhausting night!!! We couldn't figure it out. Then the next day a sore throat and high fever shed some light on it. A trip to the doctor on Monday said it was strep throat. Then later in the week Shannon came home from work with what we thought was the stomach flu but he is still home today not feeling well. Whatever it is it has really knocked him for a loop. Chase is still up and down on the sleeping front and with all the other last week, I called in for reinforcements. What would we do without moms/grandmas! I think I caught a cold or am just that run down. How could we all get sick with different things in the span of a week. So far Chase has escaped it all - hope it stays that way and we are all on the mend!