Happy 4th of July!

Friends, I know it's the 5th officially, I just wanted to wish each and every one of you a Happy 4th yesterday. I hope that all is well with each of you and you are in good spirits. Ella got to watch her first fireworks show here in Caldwell last night with her favorite cousin Logan. Mark, Amy, and Logan came over and we lit off some of our own fireworks before going into Caldwell for the BIG fireworks show. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to hang out with my brother while watching our two daughters play in the grass.
It's been a pretty good week when Hadley is concerned. She was officially weaned off of her medication at the beginning of this week and almost immediately began to withdraw from the medication. This means high-pitched screaming and her being generally uncomfortable. We have been watching her closely and monitoring her patterns of behavior to see whether this is a concern for her. The hard part about all of this is that we don't know if she's in pain from the surgery or withdrawing from the medication. Some of the symptoms are the same in each case. So it has been up and down for the last couple of days and our doctor got us a prescription for the medication to administer in a smaller dose that she was previously on. So she does well for awhile, yet still has her uncomfortable moments.
We have a doctor's appointment with the pediatrician today to see if she's gaining weight. These are weekly appointments because they are monitoring that aspect very closely.
Yesterday was a great day, we had Janelle's brother Cody and his wife Lisa over to have dinner. Janelle's mom has been here and it's been great! She is such a HUGE help around the house and unfortunately we have to say goodbye to her today. She is heading back home. I know that Janelle and I seriously couldn't have made the transistion back home without her.
On a different note, we are also selling our Audi wagon so if anyone knows anybody who needs a used car, it's a great vehicle. I have included some pictures below of the last couple of days around the house as well as a picture of our car. You can check out our ad for the car on craigslist.org under the cars & trucks link in the "for sale" section.

Casey