We sure look forward to summer every year. It is is fun to be able to be lazy and not be hustling to get to school and all that other stuff. The kids love being outside and doing all the fun activities we do during the summer. We have a kids summer pass at Blockbuster so we get some fun kids movies to watch and the girls like playing out on the tramp with water. We have a family in the ward that lets us use their pool, but it is really cold so the kids don't do very well with it.
One of the things we love best about summer is going to the library. It is so fun to go and get books and read them together and to do the summer reading program and get lots of fun prizes.. The library had their big kickoff for the reading program so we took the girls to it and got them signed up. They also had some activities, and they had some reptiles that the kids got to see and hold.
Lizzy had fun holding the snake. She has such an adventurous spirit, I love that she will try lots of new things
Nellie is not very adventurous but she wants to be like Lizzy, she pretty much was like hurry and take the picture mom while I am touching this snake, so that it looks like I was brave. Hey I think its great that she did it at all, I wouldn't have. Jane didn't have any desire to do it at all.
They gave the kids these little jelly belly hats to decorate because the theme this year is Cooking..
Russ discovered this giant train table and he was happy as a clam to play on that the whole time which made me happy to not have to worry about him running and trying to keep track of him.
The last day of school I wanted to make it a big deal for the girls. I want my kids to feel like I am excited to have them home for the summer, because I am! Yes by the end of the summer we are all ready for the kids to get back into the structure of school, but I love the end of the year and the opportunity to be with my kids and do lots of fun things together. So Jane and I surprised the girls with these decorations outside so when they walked home they would see it and get excited. We also made so really cute watermelon cupcakes that the girls thought were really fun. I love having girls because they recognize the efforts I put in and think it is really neat.
I had to throw in this picture because this is case and point of why I don't let Nellie serve her own food. Our ward has a potluck in the park once a month and I decided to let the big girls get their own food and this is what Nellie served herself. She really has an addiction to junk.
Lizzy was gone with her cousin Grace and the others were feeling a bit left out, so I took them to the splashpad and boy was that fun to watch Russ. That boy loves water like nothing else. He kept running in and getting drenched and then running back to me just laughing and squealing. It was seriously one of the cutest funniest thing I have ever seen.
Nellie and Jane found a bunch of water balloons someone left and were trying rather unsuccessfully to fill them at the water fountain.
I could seriously not get over how cute this boy was.
Jane is very timid with water. She really doesn't get in much, just kind of danced around the outside.
Nellie usually is more into it too, I think she wasn't this time because she didn't have Lizzy with her getting her in there.
I just really loved this picture of these two taking a breather together. So cute. We have had a good start to the summer!
1 comment:
That is so cool that the girls held the snake! I would never do that either!! I love how Janie is making a heart in the picture of them in front of the banner!
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