August 2015, Part 1

In August, I was a on committee to plan a neighborhood night out. This event was an opportunity for those in our neighborhood to get together and get to know each other a little better. It was a lot of fun. We had inflatables for the kids. We had lawn games. We had great food. What a great way to enjoy the end of summer.

Jordan

Caden

Ava

Hannah drinking her juice by dipping her fingers in and then sucking it off. Doesn't seem very efficient to me.

Hannah can draw a crowd. Who doesn't love a cute younger sister?

Hannah loves Jordan's friend Olivia. She gets so excited whenever she sees her. Olivia is so patient with her, especially considering she doesn't have younger siblings. Olivia even held Hannah as dirty as she was, juice and dinner down the front of her and all over her hands.

The girls went to a late night swim with their friends. They said it was a ton of fun. The lifeguards threw a "million" glow sticks into the pool and the whole pool was glowing and the kids were diving for the sticks and wearing them.

I think Kailyn likes being in Young Womens. This is what Ken found when he went to pick her up after her first activity.

What kid doesn't like to play in water? Well, our kids love it!

Trying to sneak up on Caden.

We went to an Art Show and while we were waiting for the shuttle we got to ride some horses. Which the kids thought was so cool.

Ava and Jordan

Caden and Chase

Hannah and Kailyn

Hannah and Ava petting the horse after.

Riding the shuttle/bus to the art show.

The kids loved the art show. There were so many amazing artist there. Such a variety of art work to see.

This is our dear sweet Hannah. Yes, she is yelling...because Kailyn tried to help her get untangled from my purse straps. How dare Kailyn try to help her!

Then she just cried.

Then she tried to walk away and fell...yes, because she was tangled up in the purse strap. We tried to help you Hannah.

Determined to fix it by herself...while yelling the whole time (And to answer your question she never got out on her own. She eventually let me help her.

Hannah loves to help. Here she is grating my cheese for me.

Jordan decorated a bunch of tubs to look like different cars for the kids. They then used the tubs to watch a "drive-in movie."

Bike riding to the church....

To do a little cleaning.

Not sure we accomplished much, as soon as the prints were wiped clean some how new ones appeared (thanks Hannah),

Ken and I got a few dates this summer where we went and listened to some local bands play.

For my birthday, the girls gave me a coupon for a spa day. They did my fingernails and toenails, face mask, and gave me a massage. Jordan made all of the scrubs and face mask stuff. We even watched a movie during all of it. Fun to spend so much time with just my big girls.

Jordan removing the face scrub.

Jordan trying to watch the movie and give a massage.

Then Jordan wanted to try putting my make-up on.

Some cute pictures of Hannah.

July 2015

Just a photo dump of some pictures taken in July.


No idea why Caden is sticking out his tongue.

The boys had friends over and we went to our community park. This quickly turned into everyone getting soaking wet in the fountain and Ava jealous that she couldn't take off her shirt too.

Ava folded the hand towels. She was so proud of her helpfulness.

I was at the park with the kids having a picnic dinner when suddenly there was a massive downpour. Yes, puddle jumping is one of our kids favorite thing to do.

Hannah had so much fun but she was a bit cold by the end.

Not often they all stop to listen to a story.

Summer is the perfect time to be outside, and its even better when you find a rope to swing on.

Ken and I took the kids for a walk one day. We have had a lot of rain this year and the little stream by our house was really high. On the right of the picture is part of the stream. For whatever reason Hannah thought you could walk on it. She just walked from the wood planks out into the water as if it were ground, never slowing down or hesitating. Good thing I was right next to her and watching her. I quickly grabbed her out, but not before she got soaking wet all the way up to armpits.

Playing on the seesaw.

Jordan and Caden had swim meets in July. Caden doing the backstroke.

I took the kids fishing at a local little pond with our friends, the Davidsons. The kids had fun catching and releasing.

Ava and Hazel

Chase showing off the fish he caught.

Caden's fish.

Ava's fish she caught but wanted nothing to do with, so I hold the pole so I could take a picture of her and her fish.

Another fish for Caden.

Another fish for Chase.

We had a swim meet at our pool. It was freezing! It was rainy and cold. Caden swam but then they ended up canceling the meet because the rain was just too heavy and it was too cold.

Jordan made an olympics for the kids to do. They had so much fun and they even won chocolate necklace trophies (that they had made earlier in the day).

Hannah loves smoothies.

Chase wanted me to take a picture of him being tricky one day when we were at the park.

We were out riding bikes and turned around to see this cute scene.

Hannah has started to give us a cheesy smile when we take her picture.

Hannah enjoying an ice cream cone after a bike ride. Yup, there's that cheesy smile again.

This girl biked on that tiny bike for 6 miles and did a pretty good job keeping up. Her little legs were going a hundred miles an hour trying to pedal fast enough to keep with her big brothers and sisters. It was after this bike ride that I decided she needed those training wheels off. Jordan took them off for her and she took off  with no training wheels without any problems.

Hannah napping.

We saw this picture in a game we have and Ken made a comment to the effect that no one can really do that. Well....

Apparently, we had 2 wait...

...three kids that can do it.

This time both Ava and Hannah feel asleep on the bike ride.

One day when visiting the park, we saw some people crawdad fishing. They offered to let us fish with them. Well, Hannah just played with her stick in the water.

But Ava, Caden...

...and Chase had fun "fishing." They just used some fishing line, a bent paper clip and really cheap hot dogs.

Hannah has started to look at books. So cute.

Road trips are so much better when Hannah sleeps.

Jordan and Caden made some cookie bowls for family home evening treats. We filled them with ice cream. Yum!

Poor Hannah feel asleep while riding on Ken's bike. Her head was bobbing around all over because there is no where to lean it.

Family bike ride.

Ken was watching Hannah while I ran kids to activities. Hannah was sad I had left her and was crying. Ken took a quick shower and got out to find her asleep on the floor of our bedroom.

Kailyn and her friend Katie skating. I took all of our kids roller skating (miss Hannah who was watched by a friend) plus Jordan's friend Anna and Kailyn's friend Katie.