Is it summer?



Who would have believed we were bundling up just 2 days ago!?



It's HOT here today- in the low 90s. The kids are convinced every time it's above 80, that it's swimming weather. So, we gave in today and let them go swimming. The water was cool but they didn't seem to care too much.

We went to church in the morning and the kids were asking about swimming before we even started getting dressed this morning. After church, first thing they asked in the car was if they could go swimming... So, we made a yummy "summer" lunch of hamburgers/turkey burgers, baked beans, and macaroni salad and then got ready. Swim suits on and sunblock on.







Paige fell yesterday walking the dog and got a big scrape on her back (and a few mini ones in other places). She says it doesn't hurt too much, unless you touch it.


POOL TIME! Luckily we got new goggles for the big kids last week.







Even Kipper got into the fun of things. The kids had excluded him for the first half hour but the dog was having a very hard time being left out. So, eventually, they gave in and let him swim with them.

ZOO DAY!

Today we went to the zoo as a family. We rejoined as members and will go some more. The kids had fun and it was nice and relaxing to take a casual (not hurried) walk and to look at all the animals.

We had been told that the zoo didn't allow packed lunches anymore, but we saw no signs mentioning this and it wasn't on their site. We had no issues once there.




Faith really liked all the monkeys. Everyone watched them for a long time.








The petting zoo. Faith was really liking the goats... then one pooped right in front of her. I wasn't able to catch her expression on camera but it was great. Like Justin, she kept trying to feed them.


At the end of a good 5 hours at the zoo, everyone was tired and ready to go home. We made a quick stop by the snakes and then we were on our way.

Julian

We went to Julian today and had fun. It was a little cold, but nice.







I love this picture of Justin and Paige


There was a shop with 2 women making cherry pies in the window. The kids (and Jason) were mesmerized and really enjoyed watching them.


Then we walked to the old Julian Jail. Justin really wanted to do this and the big kids had fun here. Faith was "skateboarding" with her teddy bear and didn't want to go into the jail building at all. There was a hitching post outside and Paige thought it was for climbing on (like the bars at school).












Time to go home. Faithie was tired and not in the mood to do much more than go to bed. Here she is showing me the sparkles on her shoes and how there are matching sparkles on the rocks.

Easter season.


The kids are off from school for 2 weeks. I admit, I'm enjoying it.

We started our break with a trip to Legoland with Mom-O and had a lot of fun.








Easter weekend at my parents' house








Justin had fun practicing golf

Well, I'm back!

I'm just going to summarize the past 3-4 months very quickly.

Christmas was wonderful.




Justin turned 8.


Feb 08 - paige being silly



We have had a nice few months... Paige started gymnastics again and Justin is playing baseball.