More fun things to do for summer....

The way to keep Taylor happy is to keep her moving LOL. We went to the park with some good friends - Taylor's pal in the middle just came home from China last month - she's 4 - and that's her older sister. They have 3 brothers. The guys came up with a great way to keep cool, they had a water fight. The girls look hot in this picture, they seem to be saying "hurry up and get this over with - this seat is hot!".

Taylor took a 3 day tumbling class - we wanted to see if she would be interested in dance or gymnastics. She liked it a lot and is now constantly trying to do cartwheels down our hall.

Our older girls took piano but I can't see Taylor being able to sit still that long lol.

Summer, continued

ahh to be five again. Taylor and Slinky relaxing while watching a DVD. It's really hot outside! Taylor goes to a little 3 day dance class next week and we have a play date lined up as well with our friends who just came back from China last month with a four year old little girl. Then in July Taylor takes swimming lessons. The summer will just fly by and it will be time for kindergarten before you know it!

Emilee went to court last week and got her official copy of her driver's license. She's working this summer and keeps coming up with all kinds of inventive ways of spending her money. We've told her she needs to save it - it must be fun to decide what to do with your income lol.

Sara and Chuck are continuing the renovation of their home. They are sanding down floors and staining them - trying to get them ready for when we haul their new bed to them that Tom made them. It's really beautiful, I would love to give them our old bed and keep their new one!

Our garden is going crazy and we are getting more squash than we know what to do with. Need to make a note - next year only plant half as much! Cannot wait til we get ripe tomatoes - I love a tomato sandwich. I'll eat one every day til the tomatoes run dry :)

Today is our wedding anniversary - 28 years!! We are celebrating by getting a Lori's pizza after I take Slinky to dog obedience class - don't tell me we don't know how to have a good time :)

Summer

Summer is here - the kids are out of school and we're trying to think of fun things to do to keep cool and not spend money lol. Taylor loves the water and says "who wants to splash me?"

Yesterday was the start of our Bible School extravaganza. There were over 900 kids in attendance last night and the numbers will continue to rise each night. I'm a crafts coordinator and by Thursday night, we'll all be zonked but it's lots of fun - our church goes all out, very creative staff and tons of volunteers make this a great week. Emilee is working with a kindergarten class (happily, not Taylor's lol) and I'm working with 4th graders. This is Taylor's first Bible school and she is in the same class as her best friend, Sophia, they are so cute together!

We just got the first vegetables out of our garden - we're eating yellow squash and cucumbers (it's soo good, fresh and organically grown). Tomatoes will start ripening in a couple weeks and we've spotted our first watermelon!