The summers ending too soon

Just getting a few more “Catch up” posts in before school really starts. I am going to put up pictures and then just explain what or where so that its recorded. I feel like I make so many precious memories with my little ones right now that I don’t ever want to forget but I am sure someday I might.

We went to meridian to lunch and to the park. The kids love the splash park I just got a few pictures of the kids playing before we went to the splash park area. We also walked around the whole park which was fun Eli and I rolled down some hills and raced to the top of the biggest one! It was the first real time I showed him how to roll down a hill like that and it made me remember my childhood. My aunts back yard has a hill and we would always roll down it.

We did some “arts and  crafts” I love finger painting with my kids!  Eli got a wooden toy from wal mart and we painted it we also did some other finger painting projects.

We made a toy air plane out of empty TP rolls and cereal boxes. It turned out to be so much fun we also made a rocket ship!

We went to my aunts house for a BBQ in honor of my cousin who was heading back to dental school. I took a few pictures of their beautiful yard, just for fun!

Eli loved playing on their huge slide and spent most of the evening on it.

Mitchells brothers came through to visit and we all enjoyed seeing them.

We had lots of fun evening and afternoons playing in the yard! We played Frisbee, soccer, and “car race” with Eli and kayden.  The boys also played in there pool. We found some moss one day which was very exciting.

Its been more rainy (much like everywhere) and we got some pictures of our hail storm.  The kids thought the storm was crazy I think they take after their mom a bit because instead of being scared or just wanting to watch from the window they were hyper and wanted to run outside in the rain. I LOVE storms, not sure why I just get very energized by them! So we took lots of pictures the week it was rainy!

We took out more rose bushes from our yard.

We bought a new houseplant which Eli is very excited about.

I have been spending more time “out” of the house having occasional craft nights with some new friends in the ward. I have also been running nearly every day in preparation for  the fitone 9k race this next week.

We got some veggies and did some freezer corn, soon we will do more canning.

We refinished the dinning room table and chairs and are almost done with the upholstery  for them.

I start classes and Mitchell will soon start doing his different after school programs.

Eli has been potty training! We are so proud of him!

Kayden is definitely starting to talk more now. It is amazing how fast her is growing. Eli is just soaking up everything he learns.

The kids got a hula hoop, which was really fun for a short period of time until it was broken but kayden really took off with it, thought it was the coolest thing!

Kayden has started to point to pictures of Christ and say “Jesus” which is SO precious! Both the boys till want me to read with them and night before I put them down to bed , Eli recently has not been as into the singing part of the routine (I have been sing to them from day one) but the other night I sang one song and he said “stay with me. Keep sing” it just made me tear up. I love those times with my boys!

I know there are a lot of other things I wanted to record but right now I just can remember!