This is Fun

I like adding pictures to our blog now, I can do it three times faster but adding text is a little weird.  Anyways hello. ( I will begin by just ramble for the next little while, sorry. ) We have finished off the school year and have entered Summer vacation!  I am finding this is good and tricky and exhausting all rolled into one.  I love having the kids home.  I would love for them to be robots and do everything I say, to not fight or make messes and to love me every minute.  That has not been the case.  I think now that they are older coordinating summer vacation will be more work.  I also planned ahead knowing that I would be very pregnant by this time ( I didn't want to be lame and not do stuff) so we are doing stuff.  We are doing swimming lessons for nine days and we went to Cherry Hill yesterday (our traditional water slide park) Yesterday the weather was in the mid 90s and today there is light snow caps on the mountains.  I welcome the cooler weather.  I like summer thunder storms our garden likes them too and probably our chickens too, that is the only way they get water.  I must say that it was a blessing to find anything growing in our garden because we planted it, weeks ago, then did nothing to it.  But thankfully we had peas and beets and onions and cauliflower growing so it motivated us to weed and recommit to taking care of the garden.  This is a large caption for this picture of Trey at the bug lab at USU.  We went there with his preschool.

Seth with his teacher

The boys all packed up for the father sons camp out.  They had tons of fun

Face painting is back.  Samantha has been painting the faces of all the boys in the neighborhood.

Trey at graduation with his teacher.  I explained to Trey later in the day that this is just the beginning. I told him that mommy has graduated from 6th grade, 8th grade, High school, and college.  I told him there will be many more graduations in the future.

The water is flowing in the stream behind our house.  It is a muddy mess and kids love it.  It drives me crazy.

Samantha on her last day of school. 

Samantha came home from Super Kids Day at school and had all the kids play the water relays with her that they had done at school.  Tom and I were the audience.

The boys playing basketball with daddy. 

Me hanging in there.  Once I'm sitting down I really don't like getting up. 

The kids with their new bikes

Sunday walk by the river

My swimmers.  This time the kids love lessons. I wish someone would have told me that four years ago when I tried swimming lessons and the kids hated them.  Samantha cried and sat on the side of the pool for most of those lessons. This time they are excited and look forward to going.  All in all things are good.  Tom is such a wonderful man.  As I think about tomorrow I plan on swimming lessons, cleaning and going to a park.  It is 11 pm and I need sleep.