it's getting hot in here

i am normally a defender of summer, but HOLY GEEZ!  this is frickin' ridiculous!  we are about to set a record for the longest heat wave (temps over 100) ever, and man does it feel like it.  however, i will still take this over living somewhere that it's cold a lot of the year.  at least we have plenty of sunshine and can still (somewhat) enjoy the mornings.  after all, when i finished my morning run at 8am it was only 85 degrees!  haha.

we have been spending a lot of time outside before lunch.  all of our time, in fact, to attempt to keep link and me from going crazy being stuck inside all day long.  because post-nap time is ROUGH coming up with things to do with a boy and mom who would much, MUCH rather be outside playing.  luckily we like to read and do puzzles for short periods of time and again lucky that link takes a long nap (1-4pm most days) so there is typically only about an hour until dinner when he wakes up!!

yay for rhodes and drew and their kaycee pool!  we love it there!

on our way to the circus on saturday - notice the sign, shout out to our champs, the mavs!

link touching every over-priced junky toy there.  oh joy!

clapping for the motorcycles (which were AMAZING)

link playing with one of the over-priced toys mentioned above :)

walking in from the circus.  wiped out!

mid morning trip to the park

tree hugger

water!  what is this stuff?!

we heart one arts plaza

so there's some of our beat-the-heat-cheap strategies.  we also do the spray park, play in the water hose while we water the trees, go to the gym, and visit hunny and papa.  what are some of yours?!  looks like this will be going on for a while.  we are really, REALLY looking forward to our vacation next week...off to cool temps and beautiful scenery!  until then we will be in the a/c or in the water!  :)