our summer

swimming lessons, picnics at the park, dance class, summer school

Keagan's little swim class. She LOVED it and passed to go onto Preschool 2. Go Keagie!
Easton's swim class. He loved it, except that one day where he cried the whole time because the water was too cold...., he wasn't as comfortable in the water as Keagan was and I signed him up to redo Level 1.

Keagan's class. She is the one with the pink ponytail holder.

Easton's class

Getting ready for dance class. She loves this also and has been pretty good so far with it. The class is for an hour, which for 3 year olds is long, and you can definitely tell when they are all done at the end.

July 4th

We went and had a bar-b-que at my folk's house and then did fireworks.

I did Keagan's hair in "firework" style. She loved it.

cousins

doing pop-its

our little family

Parker's new baby

For Father's Day we got Parker a gift certificate for a new grill. He looked around and found one that he liked and went and picked it up. It was supposed to be free assembly, but somehow the store forgot....(lame sears) so Parker and I put it together. It was a bit daunting at first, but we managed to do it.

It is awesome and we have used it a ton already. Nothing like grilling in the hot summertime.

Balloon Fest

The kids and I did the balloon fest the Saturday before the 4th of July. I have been doing this since Easton was just a baby. We missed last year because we were out of town, and it just didn't seem like the 4th of July to me. So glad to get back to our tradition.

Even though it was super early, the kids were excited to be there.

This year the Darth Vader balloon made it's first appearance in our balloon fest. Easton was so excited to see it. And there were Star Wars characters walking around the festival, which was even more exciting.

There was a huge line to see Darth Vader, but we were able to squeeze in and take a picture. One of the storm troopers put his hand on Easton's shoulder and Easton said afterward, "He was squeezing my neck!" He was so excited.

The Coke bottle was a first this year too. 180 feet tall. It was cool to see it go up, even if it was only for a minute.

June 25...

ICE CREAM!!

We always have ice cream on June 25th to celebrate Parker's sister's birthday. Ice cream was one of her favorites, so all around the country, the family does ice cream on June 25.

Happy Birthday, Abbey!