Lemonade

I think I could write the same story day in and day out about how hectic things are. Life is full and I honestly don't know how to squeeze it all into a day. This morning I woke up to little cute ants eating popcorn under our kitchen table. And when I went to do the dishes this afternoon I realized there were dishes from Sunday evening that I was loading into the dish washer. Are you kidding me? I seriously do not know how to squeeze it all in. We did reach a milestone today as Samantha, Seth and Trey worked together to unload the dish washer. Ah-ha! They can unload the dish washer and they are really good at it. I should never have to do it again. I wish. I hope. I was impressed with their initiative and team work, can I order a repeat of that for tomorrow?

It was hot today, over 90 degrees. We stayed inside most of the day. Tonight I went to Young Womens. We weeded a lady's flower beds then got rained on. I love summer thunderstorms.

Below are my picture selections from this last batch of pictures. The picture below is the annual filling-up-of-the-rental-swimming-pool. See that little garden hose that Seth is holding? That little hose fills up the entire swimming pool. Isn't that impressive? We finally got the pool cleaned out of all the dead leaves and yucky rain water then we turn that little hose on and for 2 whole days the hose runs until the pool is filled. I kind of think that is amazing.
This pool is the known by students from all over. The USU student population have nicked named this house the "Pool House" because it has a pool of course. Even Big Bill from the USU basketball games (You know that crazy wild USU fan) swims at this pool, he lives next door.

The above picture is of Lemonade Stand Training 101. We have this little school room where we do Summer Learning (I try to be consistent with it, some days are better then others) On this day we were learning about how to run a lemonade stand: how to give correct change, how to provide good customer service and how to drum up customers to buy lemonade.
Here is the training in action. The real motive behind the lemonade stand was so the boys could buy new Bay Blades. (see below) It went pretty good. They each earned $3.25. It seemed like a ton of work. See this is why I suffer from fatigue much of the time. I'm exhausted thinking about this lemonade stand. I do it because I want our kids to learn how to earn their money but man it's alot of work on my part for that lesson to be learned.

New Bay Blades. The boys combined their money and money they had saved to buy the Bays. I must admit it is pretty fun listening to the boys and Samantha on occasion have the Bay Blade battles. There is a whole lingo used when talking about Bay Blades.

I have got to get to bed. I still need to read my 6 pages in the Book of Mormon for our summer challenge of reading it in 90 days. Trey's road rash is just about healed. Last night we were at my sisters house late helping them put up a cedar fence along this swift canal that runs along the back part of their property. She had a huge scare last week when she thought her 2 year old had fallen in. It turns out the two year old had not fallen in but that motivated her and her husband to put up a much needed fence.

Everyone be safe!