The Pool

At least 4 times a week you can find us at the pool or at a friend's pool.  Molly has become a little fish and would go everyday if possible.  Every time we go, she learns a new trick.  She swims underwater all the time, but when she jumps in, she usually wants me to catch her.  Now, she goes under and is fine with it.  She can touch the bottom of the pool (in the 3 feet area) and do a handstand.  She can drive down and get diving toys, which is one of her favorite things to do.  She can do a hotdog roll while underwater.  Anytime someone asks how old she is and I tell them 4, they're very impressed with how well she swims.

Molly and her friend, Ayla

 

 

Camps for the kids

Last week the kids both went to a camp at San Antonio Academy.  They were just in the morning from 9-11:30.  Tyler's was "Digging up History" and Molly's was "Reading Adventures." They both really enjoyed them and learned a lot while having fun. 

Tyler learned about archaeologist and how they preform digs and what tools they use.  They studies fossils and made some of their own in clay.  They studied Egyptian artifacts such as kings, mummies, and tombs.  Tyler learned about Hieroglyphics and other ancient languages-that was one of his favorite parts.  They also talked about unique excavations such as Pompeii, underwater digs, and ice digs. 

This was the Papyrus they made and then he wrote some Hieroglyphics on it-it's just hard to see.

This is a kings headdress, some clay fossils, a mummy

Molly's class read Laura Numeroff's books each day.  After they read the book, they made a craft, did a learning activity, and had a fun snack.  The books they did were: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, and If You Give a Dog a Donut.  Their learning activities were sequencing, counting, and graphs. Molly had a blast!

 

 

 

4th of July Weekend

Thursday evening, Scott's friend, Patrick arrived from Shreveport.  That evening we went out to dinner at Chuy's.

Friday morning, Scott and Patrick met up with their friend, Jeff from Houston to golf.  

That evening, we all met up with Jeff's family for some BBQ. 

Jeff, Tambrey, and their daughter, Zoe came back to the house after dinner.  Zoe is big into Minecraft, so her and Tyler connected and played for awhile.  We also did a few fireworks and sparklers before they left. 

Saturday, July 4th, we started out the morning by going to Top Golf.  The kids love it and we always have a good time.

 

 

 

That evening, my friend, Rachel and her family joined us for a cookout, badminton, and fireworks.  It was such a fun time.  We normally only buy sparklers and a few little things, but Patrick always does it big.  So we had some fun fireworks-we had tanks, parachutes, lady bugs, saucers, roman candles,big ones he lit that went high and were big. The last two he lit had 45 fireworks between the two.  The pictures aren't great, but I'll post a few.  There will be no going back-the kids will want this every year now. 

Molly and her friend, Payton

 

 

 

I have to add in this picture of Molly and Patrick!  She just loved him!

She loved climbing on him and he played with her and was silly with her.  She "read" books to him.  On Saturday night I said something about him leaving and Molly asked where he was going and I told her home-her little lip came out and she started crying!  She told Daddy we need to make a trip to Shreveport soon.  Patrick calls games for Northwestern State and will be back here in October. 

Today we finished off our weekend by going to the pool.  It will be early to bed for all of us tonight. 

Carman's Baby Shower

Last weekend we went to Austin so I could give Carman a baby shower.  She wanted a "shower" theme.  Everything turned out cute.

Unfortunately it's a little hard to see this one.  The white puffs are suppose to be clouds and then they have raindrops coming down from them.  For dessert, we had cupcakes and almond bark pretzels.  The little cupcake toppers said, Baby Sprinkle, Sprinkled with Love, and Baby Girl

I thought these little rain boots with balloons made a cute decoration for when guests arrived

We played the game, "How Big is Carman's Baby Belly?" Everyone had to cut yarn and then we measured to see who was the closest.  I don't have pictures of the second game, but it was a list of pregnancy words and you had to match them to the correct piece of candy. For example: girl name: Baby Ruth; baby giggles:snickers, hospital bill:100 Grand...things like that.  Then whenever someone answered correctly, I'd throw them that kind of candy. 

 

We had a yummy lunch of chicken salad croissants, turkey and cheese sandwiches, fruit salad, broccoli salad, and chips with a shrimp salsa.

Carman received many gifts that she needed-this is their first, so they need everything! Scott set up the crib for them and we gave them the dresser that matched the crib and took up our bassinet for them to use.

 

 

We can't wait for little baby girl Shobe to arrive!

Hiking

Today we went hiking with some friends.  The park was in Helotes, but I can't remember the name.  We had a nice time, but I didn't care for the trails.  They weren't very clear, so we were walking through high grass, weeds, flowers, lots of branches and sticks...my legs were so itchy by the time we were finished. The pictures aren't showing those areas of course. 

Molly and her friend, Ainsley making it up the hill at the beginning

Finally at the top

 

 

 

 

Cibilo Nature Center

We went to the Cibilo Nature Center a few months back with Scott.  I know I posted about it.  Yesterday, we went with our friends, the Williams.  The kids had a blast.  Playing in the creek was their favorite.

Molly and Ayla were serious about following the map

Look at those two sweet girls!

The girls had sticks and were pretending to row their boat

All 5 kids

Tyler and Aiden were collecting sticks and carrying them out to a tree in the water and trying to make a fort

This is me and Emily!

Vacation Bible School

Last week, we had VBS at our church.  The kids had a blast!  I was one of the preschool games leader this year.  It was alot of work.  The kids want me to go back to being a crew leader next year-it's Tyler's turn.  The theme was Everest:Conquering Challenges with God's Mighty Power. 

The 3 of us on the first morning

 The last day at the assembly, they had snow!!  The kids loved it!

I don't have anymore pictures, but the kids really did have fun!