Summer 2016 Post 1: Pool Days and Play Dates

Yikes....our summer was a bit busier than we thought it would be and I may have gotten a bit behind on this blog. And Instagram is so very easy to post on and you can order cheap, adorable little books with all your photos in it....so this blog gets forgotten. Rats. But I'm catching up with 500 pictures per post. Here we go....

Our sweet church/homeschool buddies! 

Our nature journals....tadpoles! 

Nature Journals: We may have gotten stuck in the flood waters in this picture. hahaha! 

Memorial Day! 

The pools are open!!! 

Yes!!! 

 Splashtown!! 

 Bowling with our buddy Kaylin! 

She overcame her fear of the diving board! 

Happy Birthday Valorie! 

 Celebrating Father's Day at the drive in to see Finding Dory! 

Pool Party at Mrs. June's house! 

 Our arts and crafts girl! Her first sewing project! Pencil Pouches! 

 Creativity Camp! 

Second Sewing project: Mermaid Tales for their Barbies! 

New swing set our neighbor built! Thank you, Jake!

Last Day of Preschool Water Party

 The girls attended a small preschool this year at our friend's home. It was such a sweet little school and the girls had a blast. Here are pictures from their last day of school water party.

Field Day 2016

We hosted a little field day at our house this year for a few of our homeschool buddies. It was a lot of fun and...hot! But the kids did have a good time!

First the warm up and sweet Journie even said a prayer for our attitudes...win or lose. Then they got to pick out a bubble "trophy" for participating. If they won first place in a race they got to put a blue star sticker on their bubble trophy, red star for second place, etc. So by the end they had a sticker collection of sorts.

 Egg/Spoon Race....we actually used a ping pong ball.

Belly Ball Race

Sack Race/Three Legged Race (hilarious!)

Goofball 

"I'm Thirsty" Race....they had to fill a cup with water, carry it above their heads, and race to the pitcher to fill it up. It was a fun one.

Beach Ball Hockey

Drip, Drip, Dunk (played like duck duck goose.....)

 Water Balloon Fight!!!

The Gang! Serious and Silly.....

Spring Fun

We started listening to audio books on audible.com. Love them. Our first was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Currently we are listening to the Wizard of Oz. 

The girls usually draw while while we listen. They are really into drawing these days.

 Penny even sticks around for school.

Marin had her spring dance recital at the beginning of May. She did a beautiful job! She loved dance but is excited to try theater next year. :o)