Our new normal

I'm borrowing this title from my friend Carrie's past post.  With my house dotted with boxes and flip flops and random things, I feel like I have to explain the madness to people who stop by.  We are still boxing up the Lady M house, thanks to a craigslisters and Trevee for their free boxes!  I'm slowly emptying out rooms and reducing what we own.  I've taken over this house, and Nic gets the Lodge.  He's building a shower/bath in the basement and we just picked up an awesome vanity/sink combo from costco.  Michelle, I would love to get pix on here, soon! Nic's working daily at our company, Grow Construction, running the Hilcrest Apts and other rental properties, managing the Wall Street warehouse space, and in the evening he's remodeling the Lodge.  I feel very tired just thinking of all he does.  So most nights he just comes in and lays on the floor and the girls sort of just jump on him and scream in his ear.
  I'm on a no sugar, dairy or vinegar diet because my candida is making my right foot toxic and swollen.  I went to urgent care after CC's birthday party last week and they said I had a cellulial infection (it took the doc all of 3 minutes to look at my foot and pronounce that).  So I took the antibiotics and kept off my feet like she said (cause I have nothing better to do, right?) and nothing good happened.   I got a raging yeast infection and a huge cankle.  boo.  So I went to my witchdoctor, Dr. Demaris (he's actually a chiropractor, but does emotional release and naturpathic medicine, he's a genius and LDS), and he says it's toxins and candida overdose.  Right now, Nic is massaging my fat foot.  He's amazing.  It's painful, but it helps show my bones again.
 The girls are hanging in there.  Kennedy's at a girl scout day camp all week (thank heavens!).  She's the one that needs constant attention, or she goes straight to the tv.  She comes home everyday telling me about all the other girls' injuries, fascinating.   CC's sixth birthday was on the 14th, and with it so close to the 4th of July we usually combine parties.  So this year's birthday party was small and lowkey, and at the end she looked up at me and asked where her fireworks were?
 My stepbro Jack and his wife Jo and their kids came and stayed with us last week.  Sooo fun to hang out with them and get to go to the zoo and share CC's birthday with them.

Upcoming events I hope to have on here, but might not... Shave Ice booth at the fair next week, and Shelby's wedding reception in Utah in August.

sweet baby raine

Jo and the kiddos

The daddies taking their girls for a ride. 

Ava having a pout.

MJ and her locks of sunshine

Kavy

Rainbow

Raine, Jack, and Kate

CC hanging out

Celebrating the 3rd of July with a pinata and fireworks.

Ava was elated that she was the one to break the pinata! So excited she forgot to get the candy. 

I took the Newmyer family picture 2010.  We usually do a pix of our clan, but didn't.