The kids were so excited yesterday when Larry set the pool up! The get in a son as the hose is in. I guess that way they are numb when it's full. .. they played in it for hours! They got in right after they ate lunch and stayed in until I made them get out for dinner. Bbbrrrrrrrr! So ready for summer!
We spent the day at the beach and it was amazing! It was a prefect day! No wind, no clouds, and warm! Just a prefect day! Made even better with friends!
We spent last week at Prineville Reservoir. We had a wonderful time with friends and family. I don't get as many pictures as I use to because I'm busy participating. Tyrah and Macquarie did the horse shoe ski this year! Lia and Jocie learned on 2 skis. Everyone had fun, no major sun burns, no broken equipment, but we did have a little rain the first couple days. But after that it was hot, hot, hot! (Which is why we go there!) We ate way to much sugar but had a great time!
Today it was just me and the girls in the pool. We had a good time! Then we dried off on the swings. Ruth asked for a "spider ride". After I gave her one Amelia and Hayden had to have one. It was pretty funny.
Brock saw this on pintrest and wanted to try it. He didn't have everything they had so he had to change it some. Plus there were some things he thought would just work better so it's his own design inspired by one on pintrest. He's pretty excited to start some other new things that he saw, only change them up too. Oh the joys of summer freedom!
We've been dying to get out on the lake but have had commitments every weekend this month, so today was our first day out! It was kind of a bummer Ethan couldn't go because he was scheduled to work. We also had 3 cousins for the weekend which means we didn't have enough room in the boat for everyone. So since we were down one "life gaurd" (or some one grown up enough to watch any extra kids on shore) we needed to enlist some help. Thankfully one of my former young women was able to come with us. We took Raechyl White with us to help out with kids. She also got lots of boat time to make it worth her day. Plus I try to feed people well when they are doing me a favor. We got to spend an entire day boating, eating, and swimming. Only a few minor sun burns and very tired kids. Totally worth it! Amelia is really looking good on the wake board. She is way better then me! (Although I'm not that good)
This week's Thursday theme day was teddy bear day. This time all 3 of the older kids were gone for youth conference. It's called "the path of the Savior" I hope to post about that later. But with just the 2 girls and a friend I aimed for one they would like and the older kids wouldn't be to disappointed that they missed. So we went with teddy bears. We had teddy bear pancakes, teddy bear picnic, with honey sandwiches, and ants on a log. We sewed a teddy bear, went on a bear hunt, made bear cookies, and listened to Elvis sing about being "your teddy bear". I even did Ruth's hair to look like bear ears. I think we all had a really fun day. Today my girls were still telling me they loved it. So I guess it was a hit. Oh they also read a bunch of Barenstien Bear books.
