Goodbye June!

I can't believe June will be over in a couple days. This month sure has flown by! The kids are loving summer. They stay up late, sleep in til 8:30ish, and enjoy doing the fun things kids do. What a carefree life!

We went boating a couple more times this week. Sophie still has been wearing her swim suit around every day. I'm surprised she didn't throw a big fit today when I took her suit off and put a dress on her. I think she didn't mind too much because she really enjoys going to nursery. She carried her suit around until it was time to leave for church though.

I've been taking the kids to tutoring twice a week in Eagle Mountain. They each go once a week. I go on walks with my longtime friend, Kara, from IF. (she lives in Eagle Mountain now) Depending on whose day it is to go to tutoring the other one rides their scooter alongside us. Sophie and Kara's little girl, Anna, take turns saying "mine" to each other for the first 5-10 minutes. It's so funny! Kara watched our kids while we went on our cruise earlier this year and I watched Anna for a few days while they went to Mexico. Even though we don't live far from each other we haven't spent this much time visiting for a long time. I've loved the workouts and catching up with my friend.

I've tried to be more structured with the kids this summer and it's helped things not be so crazy. Before they can go out and play, they have to have their rooms clean and then choose two jobs out of the job jar. Once and awhile they will choose out a free job and they think that is exciting! From 12:30 to 2:00 we have quite time. That's when they come in for lunch and then they each get a couple math worksheets to do in their rooms and I read with each of them for 20 minutes. Sophie takes a nap during this time too. It's been so hot outside that they don't mind coming in and resting for awhile. Thanks to my friend, Carrie, that I visit teach for the great idea.

Summer's Here!

Well, it's been awhile since my last post. Here's a rundown of what we've been up to.

Kali had her performance for cheerleading the end of May and ended up with the stomach flu that day. She was throwing up while I was getting the rest of the cheerleaders ready for their performance. I was impressed with all they learned the two months I worked with them. I felt bad Kali couldn't have been there. I am doing three classes this summer. Kali's class, a 5 year old class and a bitty cheer class for 2 and 3 year olds. Sophie is in the bitty cheer class and when I am doing Kali's class she dances and cheers right along but when it's time for her to pay attention in her own class it doesn't work too well.

The weather has finally gotten hot enough to start taking the boat out. We've been 3 times in the last week and have a bishopric boat trip planned for Wed. It sure is fun. Last week I snagged a knee board at a garage sale and that has been fun to try out. Conner had a scary thing happen though on Mon. He was on the knee board and crashed and his knees where strapped in tight and he couldn't figure out how to release them. Jimmy jumped in to help him and Conner was pulling him under the water (Jimmy's didn't have a life jacket on). Conner was really shaken up over the whole thing. He said he wasn't going to do it again for a long time. However, yesterday after I did it, he saw how much fun it was and got right back to it again. We went over how to release himself and he was careful not to strap his knees in tight. Sophie loves to go on the boat. Kali, Sophie and I went on the tube and Jimmy was pulling us pretty fast. Sophie has been on the tube with me before but we always go slow. She loves going fast- she kept saying faster and when we would catch some air she would laugh. This morning the first thing she said was boating- whimming soup (swimming suit). She brought Kali two swim suits for her to put on so we could go. I think Sophie is going to make sure we get good use out of the boat this year! Too bad the gas cost so much! Ahhhhh!

Jimmy and Conner had there Father and Son's camp out on Fri. They had a great time. Jimmy was excited to get back to his own bed. The tent not far from them had a snorer and Jimmy has a hard time with anything but white noise when he sleeps. Needless to say, not much sleeping was done. That's not what camping is about though! Kali and I had a manicure, pedicure night. We watched the American Idol result show (recorded) while we had a foot bath, massaged each others feet and then painted our nails. She had a hard time when Jimmy left so sometime soon Jimmy is going to set the tent up in the backyard for him and Kali. They'll roast marshmallows in the fire-pit and have a nice daddy daughter night. Kali is really looking forward to that.

The kids are keeping me busy being out of school. The house is harder to keep clean and it's harder to find time for myself but it's been fun having them around more. Sophie is also enjoying the extra playmates. She thinks she is just as big as them. They have made a huge playhouse in back of our house. They have used old sod crates, wood, tile, blankets and to put together their fort.

We had another Enrichment night this week. We had a great turn out and it was a lot of fun. It was a Backyard Beach Party Progressive Dinner. We went to three different houses. Combine food and socializing and there is bound to be fun!

Well, hopefully I start keeping up on the blogging better. I sure like reading all your posts!