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For the 4th of July holiday we headed over the mountains to some beautiful sunshine!!!  Of course, it was sunny and hot over here as well, but oh well! We took our good friend Shelly over, as well as the Powters (Amy, Tony, and Isabell’s boyfriend, Matty).  We all spent time on the seadoos, on the Powters boat, playing games, resting, and generally having a good time.  We took a boat ride down to a little beach up river to sit in the sand.  Isabell was having a tough afternoon on Saturday, and she wanted nothing to do with the boat until it was moving and she could watch the water splashing, and then wanted nothing to do with the river, or her life jacket, or the beach, or the sand, or her parents, or her bottle, or anything else that might  usually make her happy.  She did get her first ride on the seadoos with me and Nashon when we decided to take her home instead of continuing with the boat ride on the river.  She fell asleep on the way back, and I had Nashon drive about as slow as was possible!  We tried to go to a small parade in town, but 5 adults and 2 babies is really hard to pack up and get going anywhere on time, so we missed the parade, and there wasn’t much of a market to enjoy, so we went home and had dinner.  We opted to skip the fireworks, as they didn’t start till 10pm, and they were about 40 minutes away.    Isabell was a rockstar in the car both directions over the mountains!  Even with holiday traffic and an accident on the freeway, she made the 5.5 hour drive over there in style with little to no fussing.  We were quite alright that she was fussy on the day we weren’t stuck in the car with her.  The biggest downfall to the weekend was that Isabell decided  to change her sleeping patterns, and was up about every 2 hours, which is VERY unusual for her; she has been sleeping through the night for 6 of her 8 short months of life.  This meant that Nashon and I were both tired, and I got up with her before 6am.  I decided to view it as a good thing, since the two of us got to spend some time alone together outside (as to not wake anyone else) at 530am before it got too hot to want to be sitting out there.  It was quite hot over there, and hard to keep the babies hydrated, but we had a wonderful time, with quite a bit of help from Shelly.  She was a wonderful sport and helped out on baby duty so we could all take turns out on the seadoos when our babies were sleeping.  Isabell and Matty are very cute together.  They enjoyed playing, and she was simply fascinated by his mobility (he is now crawling and cruising).  We’ll see if she learned anything.