Savoring Summer

It's true we get out of school a little later and so we still have an extra week and a half to enjoy it, but oh how I'm going to miss this!!!

Here's a little glimpse of some of the things we've been up to recently...

Lots of dress up!  My kids started getting really excited for Halloween...too excited.  I had to distract their little minds with something a little sooner.  So we told them we're going to Disneyland with my family for Labor Day weekend. 

 Grumpy old man and happy distinguished cook?

All aboard!!

 Big bubbles!

More bubbles...

  Isn't being a kid the greatest?

 We found this fun fountain to play in on campus

 We've done our last swim at our pool for the season...so sad!

 Tommy taking full advantage of having the pool all to himself!

 We had a few things left of the summer bucket list that we were able to cross off.  A big one...going to the aquarium.  The kids had an absolute blast.

 We went to our friend's lake house for a birthday party.  They had a bunch of kid fishing poles and just about every kid caught a fish, it was really exciting!

 

  

 One thing we were not able to get done was camping.  Rachel begged to go all summer but it was either too hot or we had plans that weekend.  Hopefully we'll find a nice weekend in September.  But until then the kids found a good replacement.

 Rachel and Tommy did a Little Gym introductory class...for fun.  They both loved it, although Rachel was looking a little worn down by the end.

 Rita's Ice!  They had some fun flavors...Sour patch kid, Root beer, and Cotton candy

 A couple trips to the beach

 And to the farm.  I love how Tommy dressed for it.  He wanted to be a real farmer.

 This one has been having a bit of a rough time lately.  Poor girl.  We took the rotten peaches out of her bucket.

Our Olympics

We've been thoroughly enjoying the Olympics at our house and I have loved watching the gymnastics as always, and beach volleyball became a fast favorite as well.

Aunt Colie just came to visit us and we had a great time going to the beach, the pool, and the ice cream shop.  She is so fun with the kids and to prove it, she had this great idea to do our own Olympics for Family Home Evening.  It was cute to watch the kids get so excited about it.  They loved helping to make the medals and Rachel even practiced all the events and when it came time she said, "I'm so ready for this!" 

It was really really cute and I just had to share.  So if you have 6 minutes, enjoy!  If you don't, you just have to see the end.