4th of July (almost)

The girls didn't nap today. They did, however, lay in their beds and talk, giggle, and play for TWO hours!!!! It was hard to fuss at them about the nap (or lack thereof), because they were being sooooo cute and sisterly. So, being the outstanding parents that we are, we let them come out of their rooms, and subsequently rewarded them for not taking a nap by promptly taking them to the 4th of July celebration at Ft. Carson. :) Truthfully, I didn't really care that we were rewarding their lack of nap, because i had one thing on my mind....a giant turkey leg and shoestring frenchfries (ok, i guess that's kinda 2 things....). I pretended like i was taking them for the bouncehouses, but really i just wanted those shoestring fries.
Don't they look sooooo cute in their red/white/blue?

This pose is soooo Juneau's new(ish) thing. I didn't just accidentally capture the photo when she was in a weird position. She was actually holding that position for the purpose of the photo. weird-o!!!! The girls are getting BIG. Well, at least Juneau is. Nova is still pretty much a shrimp. But holding both of them is DEFINATELY no longer easy!! haha!

The following sequence of pictures shows typical Nova "Daddy's Girl" Stickley...

For a few weeks, she was referring to Daddy as her "old prince", but Daddy has recently been promoted back to the role of primary Prince. In fact, today at the play-place, we overheard her talking to her new little 3 year old friend "I have to go back and talk to my Prince for a minute, because he is taking me to the ball later"...

Daddy gets sweet kisses like this about 100 times a day :)

see what i mean????? it's kinda ridiculous!!!

While I was taking pictures, Nova said she wanted to try to take a picture. This is the photo she captured of June-bug...kinda cute!

And of course J wanted to take a picture of nova!

We had some beautiful sunshine for about 1.5 hours....

Then the rain, thunder, and lightening started....and it was SERIOUSly coming down!! So he hightailed it for the van (which was unfortunately really, really not close!) Sooooo, the girls got to jump in the bounceyhouses, but the mama didn't get a turkey leg or shoestring fries!!! maybe next year!

ahhhh....Colorado....85 degrees and sunny....but don't blink! It will start raining (or possibly hailing like yesterday) in the blink of an eye.

Looking to the East.....

and then....looking to the West (only one second later)....

Looking down...

and then, looking into the backseat :) One tired little sweet girl. This family LOVES a 4 day weekend (who doesn't?), and we are looking forward to one more day without work. Unfortunately, we still have a garage full of boxes to unpack!! So we will be spending lots of time around the house tomorrow trying to make some headway on clearing out the garage!