Cow Appreciation Day

For those who didn't know, Friday 9 July was Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-fil-a. Dress up like a cow and get free chicken? Sweet. We were very surprised to see that there were not very many people dressed as cows. I mean, it's free food! But, we had fun:

Addie kept insisting on going to see the cow, but when she got close she would freak out. And when we went to take a picture, that was WAY too close even if I was holding her.

Yes, I made an udder. It was the one way that I sometimes feel very closely related to a cow.

We printed off some snouts (is that what they're called on a cow?) for us to wear along with the ears and spots, but they weren't very comfortable and really hard to eat with so we didn't wear them long. Even Andres got in on the action (see the cow face on his hat?). I was very surprised with my husbands mooching instincts that he didn't try to get a free meal out of that too.

We found out later that the more complex you dressed up, the more free food you got. A mask got you a sandwich, but our elaborate costumes got us 3 full meals!

We met our good friends there (thanks for the tip, Lindsey!) and we were glad for at least one more fun adventure before they leave for Rexburg.

And this is our tired little cow about 30 seconds into the ride home. Notice the position of the "injured" hand.

Dad's home, so we have time for...

Jason finished his first year of Dental School at the end of June and we are all so proud of him. AND we're REALLY glad he's home for a few weeks and has time to spend with us. We've been having all sorts of fun, and here are just some of the highlights:

We've been able to double-team Andres and get some good smiling pictures. As I've mentioned before, he's a very happy and smiley baby but as soon as the camera is out he becomes all business.

Addie LOVES to hold her brother. The funny thing is, he's now more than half her size which makes holding a little awkward. Not to mention that if he starts to tip to one side she just laughs and says "silly baby". They are really cute together and you can tell they love each other even though sometimes they don't understand each other very well. But, well, I mean, look at them! Do they come much cuter than this?

Jason has also had time to take care of himself. He's been putting off going to the doctor for things all year, and he was finally able to see a sports therapist about his knee. He found out that his feet aren't just flat, they're REALLY flat. And this extreme flatness has taken it's toll and is affecting his knee. I have told him ever since I first saw his lovely feet that they were really flat, but I'd never seen flat feet before so when he just dismissed it, so did I. Basically I got a little bit of a laugh when he came home and told me the doctor's reaction when he took off his shoes (okay so maybe I laughed really hard and had a difficult time controlling myself). Anyway, he now has to do exercises every day and this is a picture of everybody getting in on the action.

"I'M SUPERMAN!!"

Sadly, we discovered that even superman can have accidents. We recently had a trip to the ER.

This is what can happen if you take on a lemon zester:

It wasn't too big of a cut, but it was deep. Plus I watched the utensil go right into her eye (I know, just thinking about it makes me wince) so we wanted to make sure it was all ok. And of course it was. Just 3 hours in the hospital, a vending machine dinner, a whole team of doctors watching 1 hold her down so they could glue it without getting any in her eye, and her 'booboo' and it was all 'bettah'.