What have we been up too???

We have had a busy yet fun June! My niece and Nephew have been hanging with us during the week so having 5 kids in the house keeps the day busy. We spend most mornings at the pool for swim team and future piranhas (swim team for the kids under 4).



I have learned that the public library and the YMCA are my favorite places!!! The girls love checking out books from the library and the boys enjoy the kid computers! The YMCA gives me a chance to be alone and to shower alone (always a plus). The girls enjoy the cool kids zone and the boys ruff and tumble in the play zone.
So far Ansley has attended art camp down the street and cheer camp at Norcross High which is her future high school!





All five kids attended Kingdom rock VBS at our church!





France's group is dancing!


James asleep on the way home from VBS!


James and Thomas attended Camp All American last week. Talk about two tired kids at the end of the day!
Never a bad place or time to wear googles.





Our upstairs air conditioning decided to quit so we camped out downstairs!





And of course I had to fit in some time for projects!





I was even able to get the kids to do some of my projects! That is a whole other blog post!!



Course I need to add some pictures of the adventurous one!!!


Caroline grant photography!!





Multi tasking with a pop and helping put the boat up.


That wraps up our past few weeks!! We ended these past few
Weeks on a sad note. My uncle who moved here a year ago from California passed away. I feel so blessed to have gotten to be around him and have that year to get to know him and to hear his version of stories!


This is my favorite picture of him!


He was laid to rest at the Georgia National Cemetery! What a beautiful place. Gun Salute and Taps!
Well I think that catches you up!

Lake Weekend

It is amazing how it can be so hot and sunny during the week and then turn on us during the weekend. However we managed to have another fantastic time at the lake. My best friend from childhood came up with her family! We had enough sun on Saturday to go for boat rides and fish. The kids are all around the same ages as our kids so they all played well! Charlie is going into third grade so Ansley was pumped to be with an older guy:) Henry was the only one that walked away with war wounds and that is solely because he thought he would jail break from us and run up the driveway. No worries he didn't get far but he sure thought it was funny until he slid down the driveway on his face. Even then he didn't cry to long and was back running with the kids.






Rough life sleeping on the boat with his guard dog.


James is always right there to make sure Oscar is not left out. Need to make sure he can see the mountains with binoculars!


Sam is 13 months and Henry is 18. Henry finally found a kid just as big as him.


Charlie and Ansley!





Ansley snapped this picture of Mary and James chilling out on the couch.


The good thing about rainy weekends is not many people are on the lake! Smooth as glass!


Uh oh!





On Saturday morning we headed over to our friends the Reeds to play at their place. The have a grandson that was born on the same day as Henry so we wanted to get them together! The kids took one look at the canoe and wanted in.


Henry our dare devil!


Trying to sleep on the floor of the boat.

Swim meet #1

Ansley's first big swim meet was a success! She had so much fun and did a great job! She swam backstroke ad freestyle.



Eating with her neighborhood BFF!








Coach Darby is her favorite!


Lane 5!


Ansley is the second one from the top left corner! She rocked the backstroke.









Of course Caroline had her camera out so guess who jumped for a picture!!

Summer trip 1

Today we went to the Tellus Museum. If you haven't taken your kids you need to! I would say any child over 4 would like it. If I had to compare this to the Children's Museum, Tellus would win by a mile. The food prices were reasonable, the kids left with a fossil and gem bag, the dinosaurs and aviation museum was interesting, and the backyard fun was a blast!The one con was that it is in Cartersville. The drive was not bad. I guess we picked the best week to go because we had the place to ourselves! Our friends the Hunter's joined us!
















Digging for fossils!


Looking for shark teeth.


We found a big one!


Mining for Gems. They gave us a small Baggie that each kid was able to fill it up.

















Backyard fun! James loved the barn with all the sound experiments.


Thomas making rainbows with light.


Elizabeth might get me for this picture but it is too funny!











The treehouse! The kids laid down and watched different weather activities on the screen. The thunderstorm was fun to watch!