soccer fun

Look who has joined the crazy world of SOCCER

She may not know the game, the rules, the objective, or even care what it is all about for that matter

but just look at her....  can she be any cuter???

yum yum yum we are growing BLACK BERRIES!!!

 We had a bumper crop this year

It was amazing to see how many there were

we were able to fill up this bowl

and our bellies

I had some great helpers

 

 look at the size of these babies!!!! YUM

 

summer fun

It's been HOT, not as hot as it usually is this time of year, but HOT nonetheless.

We have fun trying ways to cool down

and lots and lots of picnics outside... apparently it is NEVER too hot to picnic!!

swimming fun?

Our neighborhood pool had been closed for several days and the kids were itching to swim.  I promised after cleaning up their rooms that we would go.  Well, they did it lickity split and we were so excited.  We got ready, put on our suits, greased up with sunscreen and headed outside.

Only one BIG problem...

It started to rain.  and then there was thunder.  We have a monitor at our pool, and they will not let you you swim for 30 mins after a thunder sound UGH!

It was pretty sad when the kids realized what this meant...

The rains cleared up.  We got all ready to go again...  excitedly headed to the pool only to find it to still be closed.  I felt pretty bad about this.  I had promised them for a few days and it looked like it was not going to happen...again. BUT then...  a BRILLIANT idea popped into my mind if I do say so myself.
SO I made a little phone call, shared our dilemma  and waa-laa.  Headed to Ma and Pa's neighborhood pool.

check out the happiness!!!

a day in the life....

It is summer, but these kids still enjoy getting up early.  I was not quite as chipper in the morning.   So how to solve this and make it a win-win-win?!

pull out the ipad, bring in the blankets and a few friends and then let them watch odd squad on the ipad while I "rest" my eyes for 30 more minutes :)  Great snuggle time too!

Good Bye Molly the Fish

We had a sad day.  

I did not think this day would ever come.

Our fish "Molly the Fish" decided that after 2 1/2 years she was done. 

she swam her lost swim and floated to the top of her bowl.

we had a nice little ceremony for it.  and buried her in the backyard... right by the old dead frog :)

trains--- PICTURE PERFECT

It was a very humid day, one of the warmest so far this year...  Molly had decided that the cowboy hat needed to be warn for this outing...  It was a great choice, i mean really, what goes better with a cowboy hat than a photo shoot with trains?!?

They did really good, they were in a pretty good place this day and were asking for their pictures to be taken-- yes, THEY were ASKING ME!!!!  So I MUST do it!

Sam saw these benches and wanted his "alone" shot here

but guess who wanted to join in on the fun... Thankfully they were able to have separate benches or it might have destroyed the great shoot

HATS OFF to a GREAT day and start to SUMMER 2015!!

There's 104days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it....

Ok, so there are not actually 104 days like on Phineas and Ferb, we actually only have 79 (including weekends etc) BUMMER...  so I guess we just have to make the very best each of our days.
It would be really cool if we could build awesome things and have a ton of ingenious ideas like those crazy, odd headed children, but I know that that would not be reality.
We will, however, make the most of it.  I know it will be jammed packed with picnics, trips to the pool and the zoo, soccer practice and games as well as hanging out with our friends.

The first few days of summer vacation were pretty busy, preparing for Molly's birthday party and having family come over to celebrate her 7th year! Then we had to get some needed things taken care of so, not as fun as the kids were hoping for, but I think we made up for it.

We headed to the library to get our summer reading started,
we saw some trains and thought it the perfect time for a photo shoot

 got our summer "do's"

and topped it all off with an amazing bubble bath in the BIG tub