Lael got Bendaroos for Christmas. Soon after, probably about January 5th, she forgot about them. Two days into summer vacation she declares that she is bored. Over the next few days, I play a few games with her, hunt down some Play-Do, they go on the water-slide, we go to the pool, we baked Chace’s [...]
I had been thinking about having a Hello Summer Party for a while. My original plan was simple. I wanted to paint a huge sign and stretch it between the mailboxes on our street that said something about School’s Out – Summer’s Here. Then the kids would run through it when they got off the [...]
This afternoon we made our first trip of the summer to the pool. The kids have been asking for several weeks now, but they just opened the pool this weekend, so today after school was the day! We packed up all the diving toys, water cannons, towels, water noodles, pool floats, sunscreen, snacks, drinks, goggles [...]
You know summer is nearly here when you get a sprinkler going, toss in a few boys and watch them hoot & holler as the cold water splashes over them. This particular day they were at Aimee’s house and she got some great shots.
I was too proud of my new patio!!! I had not even had anyone over yet for a dinner or a get-together or anything, and now we have no table to sit at! A stupid summer storm blew up out of nowhere yesterday afternoon. I did not even realize it was windy, but apparently it [...]
