Ahh.. Where to begin. Last time I posted I mentioned how I knew the summer was just going to fly by. I couldn’t have been more right. Here we are now, just a few short weeks left until school starts. It makes me sad though- I had a big long list of things I wanted to get done this summer and only about half of them have been completed. Which brings me to what I am doing now. Two of the things on my list were to keep caught up on my blog and to get caught up on the kids scrapbooks. As you can see, I have done no blogging or scrapbooking this summer so here I am. I have been glued to this computer for 2 days now. The good news is, that my scrapbooks are all caught up besides the pictures I still have on my camera, and here I am working on the blog. If I am being honest, I don’t like doing it- any of it. Scrapbooking and blogging take so much time and I dread doing it but I don’t keep a journal and I don’t print many of the pictures I take so printing my blog and the kids scrapbooks is important to me. I love having them. I just don’t like the time that has to go into them! Our summer has been crazy but nothing really exciting has happened. Lots of swimming, playing, sleep-overs, swimming lessons, play dates, picnics, bike rides, cooking, cleaning, and yard work. That pretty much sums it up!
Mackenzie and her friend Zoie. This is a picture I found from when I went with Mackenzie to her class field trip to the zoo.
To start off the summer, we had a campout in the backyard. We cooked hobo dinners and roasted marshmallows and starbursts. Yes, Avery is wearing a bike tassel in her hair. Don’t ask!
We got to keep Jordan and Breann’s kids for a night. Avery LOVEs Aubree. She was so cute with her.
It looks like they wore her out!
For the 4th of July we went to the parade, and then to the park for the kids games and fireworks. I love fireworks!
I almost forgot what Mackenzie would consider the most important part of our summer…..she got braces!
We packed up the trailer and went camping only once. I am hoping we can go one more time but we are running out of weekends!
Avery falls asleep in the wierdest places.
We went fishing in the rain. That lasted about 10 minutes…
Kenzie and Avery painted rocks while the boys went fishing…
Avery put her pants on backwards. hehe
It might seem strange that I am writing about this but it will probably never happen again so I figured I had better document it.. I made home made chicken noodle soup and homemade noodles! I decided it was worth a try and it was really good but I don’t think I will be making noodles again anytime soon. It’s so much easier to just buy them!
chicken noodle soup over mashed potatoes and topped with cheese = heaven!! Yes, that is a plastic bowl and spoon. That’s just how we roll. We do use our glass dishes and metal silverware once in a while. Like on Thanksgiving or when the president comes for dinner. Other that that, it’s plastic. I have issues. I do not like to eat with metal silverware and I don’t get it out for the kids because the sound it makes when they clink it on their teeth or scratch it across a glass plate, is enough to make me want to rip my ears off!!
and this is what Avery looks like when she dresses herself. Can you see why that doesn’t happen very often? She is always running around with a hat and gloves on. Apparently she doesn’t realize that it’s 90 degrees outside!
Mackenzie and Gavin did great in swimming lessons. Gavin got bumped up to Mackenzie’s class because he was doing so well. Avery had her first class this year. On her first day, I was standing there with the swimming bag and she kept trying to take her floaties out and I kept trying to explain to her that we don’t use floaties in swimming lessons. Finally, she started crying and blurted out “but I’ll drown!!” It was adorable! After her first day, she loved it. She would tell me “my teacher held me and drowned me but I didn’t die!” Sounds like a nice teacher doesn’t it? I finally got her to understand that going all the way under water isn’t drowning.
This is from one of the times I took the kids to swim. Avery sure loves her floaties! Think she’s safe?
A few weeks ago, the kids and I went to Flaming Gorge and spent the day boating with some friends. Besides the minor set-back of Mackenzie locking my keys in my car, we had a great day!
I even tried wake- boarding. Doesn’t look too hard does it?
Well, it is! And this is about as close as I came to standing up. I don’t know what I was doing wrong but it just didn’t work for me. Better luck next time I guess!
The kids loved playing in the sand…
Tiffany tried killing Dawn, Denise, and I when we rode in the tube. I went home with some nice whiplash. My neck was pretty sore for a few days. It was worth it though!
I had to bribe Gavin to get him into the tube but once he got in, he loved it!
Avery refused to get into the tube but she loved the boat! Mackenzie of course loved the tube and wanted to try water skiing but didn’t get a chance to this time.
poor Scott had to spend the day with us crazy ladies and all of our kids. What a good sport! Tiffany said our beach neighbors probably thought we were sister wives or something. Scott with his 4 wives and our 13 children lol!
Someone needs a hair cut! Cute boy didn’t want to go home!
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