Summer Days!

I am trying to up load some other pictures but I am having a hard time. This pictures is of Cole going down the slide at swimming lessons. On fridays at swimming lessons they have what they call friday fun day. All the kids in swimming lessons get to go down the slide or dive off the diving board. They don't have lessons they just get to play around. I got a picture of Cole but never could get one of Kamden coming down the slide. She loves to go down the slide.

Friday grandma Bassett came to visit we hadn't seen her in proably 4 to 5 weeks. Kamden was sleeping on my lap and Melonie came over to me and picked her(Kamden) up to hold her. Kamden opened her eyes and gave a fun very funny face to Melanie. I don't think she recognized grandma. It took her a minute to figure out who she was. I had a V.T. BBQ. All the ladies I visit and there kids came over to swim and play and eat. The kids had a great time. They didn't want the kids to leave.

Saturday morning we had to go to Howard Amon for Kamden's last dane preformance of the dance year. We went at 8:30am it was nice out I think it was in the 70's. It has been in the 80's and will be all week. Nice weather except for swimming. Kamden had a birthday party and the whold family was invited. They have a pool with a slide and a diving board. The kids pretty much didn't leave the pool. They also had a huge bounce house. It had 3 rooms in it. They also had vollyball net set up with lines and a swing set and a trampoline. It seemed like over kill on all the toys. It was funny because they served hot dogs for everyone. Not sausage dogs just hot dogs and everyone brought a salad and they served water. I was shocked the food was done really cheap. But, we all had a really good time. We have never seen a whole family birthday party.

Sunday we ate at mom's and dad's we had BBQ beef sandwichs. Kim and all her kids plus Ishmel were all there too. It was nice to have a bigger group of family at grandma's. Cole and Ryan and Cole went to a baptism. It was some friends of Cole's from school. Can you believe Cole is getting baptized here really soon.

We started a new session of swimming lessons. I couldn't get the kids in at the same time. Cole goes at 9:30 and Kamden at 10:10. So Carter and get to set there for about an 1 1/2. It is a little to long. Because we have early lessons we don't go over to the park for lunch. The kids don't like that but I like being done earlier. Cole starts football practice tonight. This will be the first year he will play Grid Kids. He is very excited. He has decided to wait to do Tae Kwon Do. I am very nervous about him playing football. Especially with no insurance. I really hope he dosen't get hurt.

Summer Time!

Well I can't believe it has been a week since I have posted. The summer is just flying by. We have been very busy this summer. I know I have already said that but we have been.

Friday we all went and saw Nacho Libre. Cole really wanted to see it we were supose to go see it a couple of weeks ago. Kamden and Carter both sat through the movie really well. Saturday Ryan had to work so we did chores and hang out in the pool. Like mom said we had dinner at mom's. We love going there too I don't have to cook. Who wouldn't love that.

This was the last week of swimming lesson for this season. It has been in the 100's so it has been really nice for the kids to go to swimming lessons. The bad thing is Carter and I have to sit through them it is so hot. They don't do a tiny tots class any more until they are 18 months so next year. The kids had testing today and Kamden passed level one and Cole passed level 4A. Cole is so excited he has passed a level each session this summer. Kamden shocked me today she swam by herself about 15 feet or so to her teacher. She wears her lifejacket in our pool all the time. So I didn't know she could do that. She tried to do the back float or stroke and didn't make it very far. She can float but to move she doesn't do as well on.

Kamden had a tap/ballet practice Wednesday morning for the Allied Art show on Saturday. I am so glad they are having the kids preform at 9 am before it gets to hot. Although I heard on the news that by Sunday it will be in the 80's and today it was in the 100's so that is quiet a drop. We have been spending every afternoon in the pool. Ryan came home last week and said that is it we are getting a boat. He really wants a boat. I am guessing it is all the heat.

So the pictures are of swimming lessons and the other ones are of last night. We went to a penny carnival. The public pool does a carnival for the kids. I remember we use to go to a nickel carnival down by Kennewick High when we were kids.

And there is also a picture of Carter and his messed up face. At swimming lessons he loves to climb up on the the car stopers. I don't know what you call them. Anyway he went and jump off and fell on his face. He didn't even use his hands to brake the fall. I have gotten lots of comments about how I beat my child up. I just love that!

These bottom two pictures are of the kids in the pj's grandma picked up for the kids while her and dad were on vacation. I was telling her a while ago how I thought it was really nice that my sister Chauntel's in-laws buy all her kids pj's. Pj's aren't something I buy usually. So mom got these really cute pj's. We couldn't get Carter to come inside to take a picture with the other two kids. He loves being out side and he always has a bat or something that can be his bat (broom stick, plastic veggies anything somewhat shaped like a bat that he can swing with). So this was the only picture we could get of him in his pj's. One morning after breakfast he had gone out side and I was ready to give the kids a bath. So I tried to get Carter to come in and he wouldn't come. So I had to pick him up and carry him in. He started to cry and scream even through the bath and up until I took him back out side to play. It was funny after the fact.

Last week a friend invited us over to swim in a pool. So there are a couple of pictures of the kids swimming. Kamden loves to go anywhere with her life vest on. She has been in swiming lesson now for a week. Today they went down the slide she went down a couple of times. She loves the water. I thought she was are fish but I think Carter is. The other day Ryan and Carter where out in the pool with other kids. Carter kept pushing Ryan away so he let go of him and he jumped into the water. He went to the bottom and then started to float up and when he got close to the top Ryan picked him up and he had been holding his breath. He loves to just go and jump in the water now float and hold his breath until you pick him up out of the water. It is a little scary he is not scared of the water at all. Kamden still swims with her mouth open. Chauntel I think it is almost better to have your kids scared of the water and to jump in when you are not looking when they can't swim. The picture of Carter at the pool crying. He is crying because Ryan put floaties on him and that made him made he didn't want floaties on. He wanted to jump in and float up. He didn't want something to keep him up in the water.

Last weekend Kamden had her big preformance of the year. They do small preformace for a couple of months but last weekend was the big show for them. Anyway she did a great job she was so cute. Next year which starts at the end of August she will be in a company tap/ballet. Which they practice longer and the preform more. She loves to get up a preform.

I feel like I have been nonstop since school has gotten out. Running from one thing to the next all the time swimming, panio, tap/ballet, dinner, friends, free movies, doctors appointment, vactions, baseball games and there is always something else.

The last week we have been looking into TiKwonDo for Cole. He is trying to decide between that and football and baseball. He has wanted to do Karate/TiKwonDo for a long time now and we told him he had to wait until he was 8. So know he can't decide what he wants to do. It will be a big comittment and he wont be able to do other things. So we will see we went to two different places this week.

Sorry I have been so bad at updating. Everytime I get on the computer to even check my email Ryan says I am always on the computer. I keep telling him I haven't been on really at all. Maybe once a week to check my email. The other reason was I was having a hard time getting the pictures up load to photomax and on to the computer. It is much easier to upload a few pictures every couple of days then once in a while and doing lots a pictures all at one time.

Well, it is summer. Summer for us is so busy. It seems to be busier than the school year and less structure. But we have been having a good time. One day the pool had to be dump out and refilled so we got the kids a slip and slid. They loved it but I don't like how it messes up the grass and kills it.

We took Kamden back to the eye doctor for her follow up visit. The doctor said the prescription is prefect that they don't have to change it. She doesn't have to be patched but runs the risk of having to be patched until she is about 7 or 8. She will have to have check ups every 6 months. Everything check out really well. What a blessing. What she has can't be corrected by surgry only by glasses. Good for us cheaper maybe not so good for her. I guess it depends on how you look at it.

We had a nice 4th of July. We tried to have some friends over but everyone seems to be busy. So we just hang out as a family. We went swimming all day and went to the park for a little bit and then back home for a BBQ, homemade ice cream and then to watch the fireworks. The kids loved them. Well Kamden liked them until about half way through and then she thought they were going to fall on her. We went to watch them at the baseball field. We sat out side the baseball staduim but she still thought they were going to rain down on her.

The last few pictures are of our trip to Omak. We went with Ryan(his work) to Omak. The kids and I had a great time. We just hang out at the park in the morning and the pool in the afternoon until Ryan got home. It was nice no cooking or cleaning or worries. I could just hang out with the kids. Ryan had to be to work each mornin at 2 so we all had to go to bed early every night. The kids did really well with going to bed and being very quite so Ryan could sleep. We were gone for almost a week. The last picture is of Carter on the car ride home. I gave him a pretzle that was white chocolate cover and had blue and red drip through the white chocolate. He had done really well with them but this one he decided to suck on and then rubbed it all over his face.