Summer!!!!

 

It's summer!  I LIVE for summer.  The rest of the year is filled with work and school and sports and rain and stress but not summer.  Summer is filled with playing, and sleeping and swimming and friends and boating and (fingers crossed) SUN!  My life is so much better in the summer.  I am currently three days in and I couldn't be happier.  This weekend was full of all things summery and it got us all ready for the next two and a half months.

 

We started out with a family trip to the zoo.  I brought my own monkeys with me...

 

 

 

 

Gee...think they're related?

  

 

Abby got in some gymnastics practice

 

 and Grandpa bought some long overdue ice cream.

 

We touched stingrays

 

 

and hung out with our favorite three year old!

 

 And you know how much I love babies of all kinds, so you know we loved seeing these sweet things!!  I want one.

 

 

I got this great shot of my kids both looking at the camera at the same time

 

 

 

So I decided to try my luck with three...

 

 

 No dice.

 

 

We spent Father's Day hanging out with best daddy there is.

 

 

 

 

 

 and swim swim swimming all day 

 

 

 

 Grandpa got involved in a serious water fight

 

 

 and my parents celebrated 40 years of marriage!!

 

 Pretty impressive!

 

Do you remember these two??

 Here they are on their first day of kindergarten

 

And here they are on their last...

 

 I can hardly believe that I am now the only kindergartner in this house!!  I have no idea where the time goes.  But I'm so proud of them.  And you would be so proud of me.  Because I didn't cry at all yesterday!!!  (But I am a little teary right now...)

 

(And yes, Abby had a little incident while running in flip flops.  Unfortunately for her she is her momma's girl.)

 

I had a little basket of goodies on the porch for them when they got home from school.  Here's a tip for all you parents out there.  Buy things you were going to buy anyway and present them as presents.  You look like a hero.  This basket had new swimsuits and goggles that they needed along with a few dollar items like pool noodles and bubbles...

  

 

Ben couldn't be happier to be done with school and ran off the bus.  When I told him he was a first grader he said, "Not yet.  Right now I'm a summer breaker!!"  That's my boy!

 

 

 

 Once we got home, Abby put the name plate from her school desk on her beach towel and got right to work on her workbooks that she brought home....

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While her brother busted out some push ups 

 

 

 before going for a swim.

 

 This morning has already included sleeping in and playing and swimming and it's not even noon yet!

 

 I am so excited for what our summer has in store for us.  Stay tuned for our adventures!!