June

WHOA! Just looking at all these pictures, I am having a hard time believing we did so much in June. And this is not a fourth of the pictures, which can all be seen on phanfare.

But I am supposed to type on here, actually write stuff instead of just posting pictures. Sometimes I forget that I need to write, that not everyone is on facebook seeing those pics I post there regularly or that everyone does not periodically check phanfare. But most people will read the blog, and it's the one that I am the worst about updating. So now I have a bunch of recapping, here we go...

It rained A LOT in June. This particular week, it was either don't let the kids go outside or let them be covered in mud. We chose mud. 

YUCK! Quite literally taking a mud bath.

 And we had TWO birthdays! John had to leave before Ethan's birthday on the 30th, but was here the weekend after Madison's on the 4th, so we had their two parties together at The Quarry Splash Pad. One of my favorite places.

                                                  Here is my newly 8 year old on her birthday! And what a birthday it was. No party today, but she didn't go without. First thing was a big pancake breakfast, then off to the pool for a few hours, then pizza for lunch. Daddy sent her a fruit basket from edible arrangments.Off to the movies to see Mirror Mirror, got a manicure with mom, and met the grandparents at The Cheesecake Factory in which she had a chocolate milkshake, dinner and a big cheesecake for dessert! She actually, not surprisingly, ended the evening with quite a tummy ache!

 And then Ethan was 2 on the 30th, even though we had his party earlier in the month, I just had to make him a little cake on his actual day, even though it was just us 4 at the house.

Showing "2" on his fingers, one on each hand :)

                                                                    I love this shot :)

                                            Madison's gift from us, she has been asking for one.

                        Madison's table on one side and Ethan's on the other to keep their parties kind of still their own and special :)

                                   Ethan sat at his table all by himself while we did Madison's lol.

And then we went on vacation! Well we 4 did, John went to work! We tagged along and did some fun stuff when he got off each day. First was Homa, Louisiana, near New Orleans. It was a good trip.

 Went to Storyland, super cool place! So adorable!!!

 Ethan got a kick out of putting Madison's shoes on daddy's feet It was cute.

Then we went to the beach! A friend of ours let us stay at a beach house with them near Galveston, what a blessing, nearly a free vacation.

                                                                         I love him.

I do not know why blogger decided to separate the Louisiana pics from the beach ones, oh well!

                                                                     

                                                                            Train ride

                                                 The boys fav part of Storyland, the pirate ship

                                                           What a busy, fun month!!!
We did do a lot of homeschooling, did much of nothing really. Madison got her summer break after all, only because we had some people living with us with kids and it made it too hard. So we just did some math most days to not get further behind on that.

So here is a quick recap of April and May

Our church celebrated it's 12th birthday, and had a crazy party. They made human ice cream sundaes by throwing ice cream and toppings at people, trying to make the best one. Madison loved that of course and said she can't wait for next years party.I would post more pics of it, but there are so many different kids in the pics and I don't know if all the parents would be okay with that, but they are all on phanfare if you have that password and link, if not, ask.

 They also played many games, one was a sack race she did with Papa Rob and then the three legged race she did with Nanny. They went to help me out with the boys while I did the pics.

Of course they got the eat some sundae's, too. 

 Today our church had the "Huffin and Puffin for Haiti" The adults did a 5k and the kids a 1k. Madison came in third place and was so proud of herself.

 I got to cheat a little being the photographer, I did about 2 of the 3 miles. Pushing 100 lbs of a kids and a double stroller and holding a 5 pound camera around my neck was HARD. But it was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. It was fun and I will do it next year, without the boys!

 This monster zuchinni came out of our garden! Yep, I grow stuff, and it's edible!

A few weeks ago when John was home, we went to Blue hole one day, and Lake Georgetown another. Blue hole is a fantastic swimming hole, LOVE it. Lake Georgetown is a simple little lake, nothing fancy but nice and clean and safer as far as big slippery rocks goes.

 This happened because this house is cursed. I think. Pretty soon we will have a brand new house. In the past year it's had a new roof, septic work twice, new a/c unit, other a/c work, and now a new water heater. Our home warranty company is going to let us go after this year. Or raise our rate. No hot water for days. Now the dryer is broken. Who wants to start taking bets on what's going out next? I think only the kitchen appliances are left. Toaster arleady bit the dust and the fridge has a mysterious leak.

 For Mother's Day Madison made me HOT tea in wine glasses. How sweet lol. She tried to be very helpful the day before and help clean up and be good. On actual Mother's Day, things didn't go so well. The kids didn't get the memo. But I was still extra thankful that day to get to be their mother.

 Of course we had Easter a while back. That was fun, lots of people came over and it went well.

 We toured a local farm, and bought some of their fresh eggs which were the best eggs I have ever bought, I buy them at the local farmers markets often, but these were even better than what I have had.

                                                          My husband was looking hot.

 And we went to East Texas for my sisters son's birthday. It was a super quick and easy trip and the kids had fun.

Other than that, we have been doing lots of park days, lots of water and went to the quarry splashpad in leander which I love. We have been having a lot of fun getting out around here. We are doing school work still, we don't need a long summer break. We take breaks whenever I want or need to, all of the time so it makes sense to just do school year round. We  took 5 weeks off recently, and it was hard to  get back into a routine and it made Madison lazy. We also just need something to do in the miserably hot summer afternoons when we don't want to go outside come June and July.  I guess that's it for now!