What fun we have had since we last met….
July 3rd was our first official swim of the summer season. It was also my busiest day since Keri was born. We were all up and dressed and out the door by 7:45am. I dropped Milo off at Toby’s house, then picked up the Hooks (a cute couple in our ward) to take them to the airport. We didn’t hit any traffic and I was back home by 9 am. I had arranged to pick up Milo at 9:45 and Jessie Bennett so we could go swimming. We did just that. We went to Jaime’s piano lesson at 10 then got to the swimming pool by 11. My friend Laura just opens up her pool each summer and invites anyone who wants to to come swimming. Swimming went really well. Actually we had quite the adventures. Afton was first. She thought she could swim by herself and so in she went. Luckily she did have a vest on so she kept swimming circles (back to front) and gasping for air each time she was up. Jaime pulled her out for me. Then Milo decided he could swim and jumps right in (no vest on) once again Jaime was right there and rescued him. Except he decided to do it again when Jaime wasn’t there, but Niah was and he pulled her down too. Jaime and I joined in efforts to pull them out. Other than that, everyone was safe…. Neither Milo or Afton would get in the pool again though!! I hope they are not ruined for the rest of the season. Keri did pretty good. She slept in the beginning and end, but was awake in the middle but was good so that was fine. We left by 2 ish and were home by 3. We did some chores and got ready for dad to come home. Yay for us!!
Friday July 4 was a great day. It started out with an 8 am breakfast at church. We got home by 10 and were going to clean the garage but realized the inside needed some attention so we focused on that instead. By 12:30 though I was spent. I guess everything finally caught up with me and I petitioned to Scott that I go take a nap and he finish the house with the kids. He very kindly agreed and I went and crashed. I slept from 1 to 3:15 when Scott came in and hesitantly woke me up. We were suppose to be at Joey and Gayle’s by 4 and he knew we needed to get ready. It was hard to wake up but 30 minutes later I was down stairs ready to go. The house looked awesome, I really appreciated that! We got to Joey and Gayle’s house by 4:30 and got to meet Nina, their one month guest. It was fun to meet her and learn all about France (where she is from). The kids seemed to enjoy her too although they were a little shy at first. We had a wonderful meal (it always is!!) and then watched a Jerry Lewis movie. I have never seen one before and the first one we watched was pretty funny. Unfortunately he reminded me way to much of Jim Carey and I don’t like that guy. Anyway, after that we shot off some fireworks (they live in Newark and we can do stuff like that). There were fireworks going on all over the place. We could see ours plus two of their neighbors were out in the street too! We could also see someone having an air fireworks show which brought the police down the street to see if it was us. Not sure if they ever got caught cause the “show†went on for quite a while! Niah didn’t go out to the street she was too scared. Keri was asleep and Afton insisted that I hold her the whole time. No we don’t have any pictures, we left the camera at home. We did sparklers too, the kids seemed to enjoy that. After fireworks we had dessert and one more movie. We got home by 11:30 pm and we were all pretty tired, but it was well worth it.
Saturday July 5, we spent the morning cleaning the garage. It was a hard job but it had to be done. We emptied the garage, swept it out and then organized everything. We filled the back of our car with D.I stuff and were happy to rid ourselves of some of our junk. It’s so easy to accumulate stuff and so it feels good to get rid of it. The garage is so much better now and easy to walk in and easy to find the stuff we actually use!! The kids mostly played with the neighbors while we cleaned and all had a good time. It wiped us all out though. Mostly because the night before was such a late night. But we got it done. The kids did a few chores that needed to be re-done (funny how that works, chores need to be re-done….). We have a lot of fruit that has been given to us by ward members. We can eat a ton of fruit so I make the kids have self control and I make jam with some of it. However I needed pectin and so we decided we’d do the jam making on Sunday afternoon. So Jaime and I went out Saturday night after dinner in search of pectin. It was harder to find than I had thought and it was EXPENSIVE!! For the last three years I’ve been using pectin that I bought at Albertson’s when it was closing out. I could buy a 2 pack for $2. I’ve never had to actually buy it for the real price, ouch!! Anyway, we also got Jaime’s free ice cream from Baskin Robins for her birthday. She enjoyed that VERY much! The rest of the evening was spent handing Keri back and forth as we both tried to finish our lessons for Sunday morning.
Sounds like you had a fun 4th. Isn’t summer great? I am so grateful that I put Nina in swim lessons this spring. She isn’t a perfect swimmer but I don’t really have to worry about her in 3′ water any more. Every time we go she gets better. I abhor the worry that goes along with swimming fun! FYI, I tried to publish my site last night but there was some sort of glitch with the server so it is publishing as I type. Stay cool!