Scout Camp

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Scout Camp

Bow and Arrows

Fittness

Leather

BB's

Basement Progress...

Zach laying tile in the basement bathroom...

Suckers on the porch. We love cousin Kayla.

Tile laid around the fireplace...
(Grandpa did this)

and the back door.
(and this)

Headed to the pool. Isabella and Kendall sure look up to Kayla.

Triple Play!

Dylan sure loves baseball. His coach is really good to work with and make sure the boys know what they are supposed to be doing. On Monday they got a triple play before the other team even knew what was going on. They caught a fly ball and tagged a runner and tagged a base for a force out where they didn't tag up. It was so exciting!

Dylan and his best friend on the team.

Dylan still eats, breaths, and sleeps baseball.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

swimming

Dylan and Collin.

Carter and Keely

Kendall

More water

Since school has let out Kendall and Dylan have worn nothing more than their swimming suits all day. Getting ready for bed this week Kendall said to me. I'm going to wear this tomorrow. (Pointing at her nightgown) I told her no she was lucky I hadn't made her get dressed in more than a swimming suit for almost a week straight. Amazingly she has 5 swimming suits she has collected so she doesn't even wear the same one 2 times in a row.

Things we like to do in the summer

1. Run through the sprinkler
2. Slip and Slide
3. Spray Parks
4. Pool.
5. Water Parks (coming later this month.)

This was the 3rd spray park we have been to this week alone. But the kids sure do have a ton of fun there.

I'm a Pirate

Mom, mom, mom,

Take my picture...



Now take my Pirate face.

She is always making us smile.

Slip and Slide...

I remember as a child saving all of our pennies, (my sister and brother and I) and going to the store to buy a slip and slide. We loved this summer time activity. So when I saw one at the store for just a few bucks I figured the kids would love it.

It didn't disappoint.

Last Day of School

We are starting a tradition of running through the sprinklers on the last day of school. Here we are again this year playing in the water in the back yard...

1st Game!

On the way to the Game the boys were so excited. The excitement rubbed off on Kendall. And they were all smiles and excited to get started! Our first couple of games had been rained out so they were more than ready to put on their uniforms and start playing for "real".

Dylan batting... He got hits both times up to bat.

Coming home. Go Dylan!

Carter up to bat. He struck out both times. But tried hard and was a good sport.

Game 2 tomorrow...

Birthday Party Slide

Most weekends these days are spent racing from baseball practice to birthday parties. This particular weekend Dylan's friend had a party and his mom had rented this water slide for their backyard for the day. I bet you can't guess what Dylan wants to do for his birthday now.?

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Chocolate Strawberries

For a craft one day the girls and I dipped Strawberries in chocolate. This was the day after I had braided Kendall's hair and that morning we had taken out the braids. She loved the way her hair was so curly that day. The girls didn't think they were very tasty but enjoyed dipping them in the chocolate. Oh well I guess more for me. They were sure cute making them though.

Recycle Project

The kids go to a "Green" School. This year towards the end of the year they collected and took to school almost everything I would put in the recycle bin for a week. Then they made projects from them. They had an evening where the parents were invited to come and visit and see their projects. After getting home Dylan raided the recycle bin again and made another "project" Here he is showing it off. I believe they are robots. This one even flies if you notice the paper wings.

Friends

Kendall loves to have friends over. We planned a play date just before school let out with Sydney. Kendall's other best friend. The girls had a great time playing at the indoor play place that is just their size. Isabella, Kendall, and Sydney playing on the deer.

Carter's Room

Carter's Room

Carter seems to be camera shy lately. Or should I say he would rather be the one taking the pictures. I find as I look through the pictures he seems to have found someplace else to be then in front of the camera. But something we did do this week for him is "paint" his room. I took pictures of the walls and then we "painted" them online. We were trying to figure out which ones we liked the best. I'll share them with you here

He wants an Arizona Wildcat Bedroom. I found some wall stickers online that are Arizona. We are going to use Red and Blue paint. Our first Idea was to do something similar to the first 2 pictures. Red or Blue on top, a chair rail and then the other color on the bottom. My fear is that it would make that room rather dark? So my second idea was to do white walls with blue trim and some strips similar to the second 2 pictures and then he would be able to see the wall stickers much better too. We've decided but I'll wait til we've painted to show you which one we are going to go with and as we haven't painted just yet I'm also open to suggestions.

Catch up.

So when I took the camera out of my purse to upload pictures from the Red Soxs game I forgot to put it back in and haven't been very good at taking pictures this month.

Kendall still loves dressing up and make up. This picture shows her with purple lipstick used as eyeshadow :) After I noticed what they were using I just helped even it out. Luckily it was kids lipstick and rubbed off easily later.


Dylan and Carter are still keeping busy with baseball practice. Games start this week. It is going to be a very crazy busy baseball 6 weeks. Zach had his first game this past Friday too. We went to the first 15 minutes of it before the kids and I left to get Carter to his practice. They were winning 7-2 when we left so I was pretty confident they were going to win. They lost 14-15 better luck next week. At least they had fun. Dylan's first game is tomorrow and Carter's a week from tomorrow. We are thankful for the distraction from school as we are counting down till it is over 3 more weeks! only 15 more days that they have to get on the bus in the mornings and leave. I can hardly wait to have them home. It will be a good summer.

This week marked the next to last week going to the library on Thursdays. They stop for summer break and do a summer reading program. Kendall looks forward to Library day every week. Story time is so much fun. This week Sydney came with us and then we headed over to McDonald's for some quality play time.

These 3 are all Best Friends and get along so well. Kendall loves having friends and I don't think we could survive without them.

Dylan's music program

Dylan's class did a music program for the last PTA meeting of the year. They were sooo cute. Of course I am biased as I have a child in the first grade that was sooo cute up there. They sang songs and did lots of neat musical things. Dylan played an instrument for a song. You'll have to ask him what it was. He did such a great job with his part too. He is getting much better about getting up and speaking in front of people. Good Job Dylan!

Mamas

We had a new mama move in with us this past week. A new mama bird. Can you see her? She has her nest right out in the open in the middle of the mulch between our rocks. I looked this bird up online and they like to have their nests out in the open so they can spot predators from far away and then they move from their nests and distract them or dive bomb the. We have pretty much been chased out of our back yard. Although she doesn't mind us up on the deck watching her. Kendall and Isabella find her most fascinating and love to sit out there and just watch her sit on her eggs. They should hatch in another week and a half and we will have new baby birds for about 20 days which is when I guess they are big enough to fly and move away...

Kendall Takes off her Training Wheels!!!

Here I go again. posting all over the place...

Baseball

Who loves baseball? Dylan and Carter have been asking to play baseball. So instead of soccer this spring we signed up for baseball. It seems it may be taking over our lives. We have 2 days of practice a week. One for Carter and One for Dylan, then on Saturdays they both have practice. Zach is also playing softball again and practices on Saturdays. So being the first week of everyone having practice on Saturday all back to back we spent 3 1/2 hours at "practice" on Saturday. It was so much fun to watch their faces light up as they hit the ball. Carter has been a little nervous lately playing a new sport and all. Mostly it is new to him and he doesn't have the confidence quite yet. But they were practicing hitting and it was his turn. I really wanted him to get at least one hit to help him build his confidence and was watching closely as he stepped up to home plate. The first pitch came, and he hit it! a second again another hit, third hit again... He got 7 pitches and only missed two. I can't tell you which ones he missed as I was amazed at how well he was doing. The other boys had hit quite a few pitches too, but I think his average 5/7 was one of the best. You can bet Zach and I were quite proud at that time. Dylan and Carter both had a chance to practice 1st base on Saturday and did quite well there too.

Carter batting.
(I said yeah! Carter got a hit to Kendall and she got really worried. I had to explain to her that he hit the ball and that he didn't get hit by the ball after that she thought it was a pretty "cool" phrase.)

Eating lunch at dad's practice.

If 3 1/2 hours of baseball isn't enough for you we also decided that for our "birthdays" (Zachs and I's are only about 14 days apart, we headed down to the Royals stadium for the Red Soxs game. I say Red Soxs because that is really the reason we went. To see the Red Soxs play The Royals had won the night before but the Soxs won the night we were there. The kids had a great time and seemed to pay attention through most of the game. We got home after 10 pm we had left for our first practice of the day around 11:30am so we had a full day of baseball.








I think we are loving it. At least the beautiful baseball weather and a good excuse to sit outside and enjoy it all day long.

Kendall's chore is to take out the recycling to the garage when it gets to be too much upstairs. I had it all ready for her when she woke up from her nap. I asked her to do it and she happily grabbed her bag to head off down the stairs, however we continued to talk and after a minute she said to me, "mom, I can't talk right now, I have to take this bag to the garage and I will talk to you when I get back, ok?" I was so suprised at her statement that I just had to take her cute picture to put with this memory so she waited patiently as I hurried and grabbed the camera to take her picture once or twice.

Caden knows exactly where the girls go when they aren't in the living room. And the second they disappear he heads off. The other day he woke up first and tried to go down the hall about 100 times before the girls woke up. I would follow him half way down and then tell him the girls were sleeping and they would be out soon. He was not detoured. At least he knows what he wants

Tent making

In order to mop the kitchen floor I need to move the chairs out of the kitchen I also need to distract 2 little girls and keep them busy while I do it. Hence using the chairs to make a tent that they can play in while I mop works really well. I took pictures this time. They really have a good time playing in there together.

Easter

I know Easter was a while back but we did celebrate it mostly in our pajamas watching conference. We also dyed eggs and played with toys from our Easter baskets but there weren't many pictures to go with it.

Slacker

Man, is this Lynette's blog? I really need to do a better job at posting. I promise once school is finished I will get on it and post some pictures. I did post some really cute pics of the boys on Facebook. Most of the ones I posted were ones I did for my photo class. I think a lot of them turned out really cute. School is over May 4th and can't wait to have a break. Justin won't have too much of a break, since he will be taking classes all summer. Man Lynette, there are some really cool things to do where you live. I wish there was stuff to do like that here. I am excited for it to start warming up since we had our first warm days just a few weeks ago. The boys are excited to go swim, and play in the park with all the water. We did get to go to the park a few days ago, but the wind kicked up so bad that it became cold so fast. Miss you all!