Charli Diving

Just had to show off how well Charli is doing in the water already this year! Enjoy!

Water Babies

We just had four days back-to-back of water fun! My wonderful neices, Alexandra and Sophia, visited for the two days after Father's Day, and MY kids looooooove spending time with their cousins! And we continued on with the water play the next day! Here are four pics, one from each day, in chronological order.

Discovery Bay


The Club


State Beach


Sprinkler Play

Dream Girls Challenge #5

The challenge was to scrap five random thoughts in five different places on the layout, and to have some doodling. It's not my best work ever, but it's done! Jack was pressuring me to hurry up the entire time, as HE wants to do a page. Man, I was hoping for JUST ONE DAY to relax and scrap. Just one. But the kids will NOT stop bickering, whining, crying, and driving me crazy. What's happened? School ends and all H breaks loose???

We made it!

We survived the school year! Woohoo! What a wonderful year it was! Here are the kids and me this morning at Jack's school. Yay summer!

Kid Pics

I haven't posted any pics of the kids in awhile, so here ya go. Our lives continue to be very full! :D

Here's Jack blowing bubbles at the park:


And here he is on Fun Day at school. Notice the bangs cut. Ain't he cute?


Here's Charli having fun with water:


And here she is at school. What an angel!

Reading Journals

Here are the reading journals I created for Jack and Charli to ensure we keep the reading going this summer! They are just altered/decorated composition books.

Slacker

Ok, feeling really guilty about slacking with Jack's reading lately. We've had many late nights, busy times, and we've done very little reading lately. At least Thursday he signed up through the library for the summer reading program. I also made both him and Charli reading journals. My plan is to make the reading and journalling part of our daily routine over summer.

I'm really looking forward to summer break and hanging with the kids. I have all kinds of fun art, science, reading, writing, etc. ideas to do together. Plus (and more importantly right now) all the FUN we'll have! Especially swimming at the club, assuming a nice summer will actually arrive soon!

Oh, I can't wait! I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait....