I have been meaning to post pictures of the girls' hermit crabs from vacation. We bought them May 22nd and so far - they are still alive! The girls love to take them out and let them crawl around the kitchen floor -Bandit, surprisingly, just ignores them!

These are the extra empty shells for the crabs to move into. Of course Kaelin picked all of the shells out.

This is Hailey's crab - he is pretty small. We think Kaelin named her Tota. It changes a lot :)

This is Kaelin's HUGE crab Mota.

Their home.

Life has been crazy since vacation. Both girls have been extremely ill. The doctor thought Hailey had strep on the Friday before Memorial day, and sent off the culture. After 5 days on medicine she wasn't better and we found out it wasn't strep. Kaelin of course caught it to - it being some weird virus. They have both had fevers, coughs, congestion, diahrea, not been eating and very tired since then. Hailey is much better (still coughing though) - as her fever broke about 4 days ago. Kaelin is on the mend, her fever broke 2 days ago, and she still is pretty congested. It has definitely been a rough week and a half! Of course Justin was traveling at least 4 of those days :)

The dog also got a virus and kennel cough from his stay at the kennel during our trip. So, the Wednesday after we got back I had to rush him to the vet. There he got 2 antiobiotics and a shot that made him stop puking. It was at least 6 days after we got home before he started eating again. He is well now -- it was all an act to make us feel bad :) j/k.

On a totally different note, today we decided to do something different and play with Hailey's hair. For those of you who spend a lot of time with us, you know Hailey has CRAZY hair - it is thin and curly and often a mess :). Today after bath Justin told me I should straighten it to see what it would look like - so I blow-dried it straight. SO WEIRD. She looks like a different kid. Justin, Kaelin and I all agree unanimously, that we like her curls better!