Whirlwind

The days are flying by around here and leaving me without enough hours in the day to get everything done. My head is full of good intentions from making playdough with my kids to actually posting about our vacation. I could make a huge list of the things I've thought about doing but haven't while my list of things I've accomplished that are worthwhile is really short.

I'm going to start with tonight (now last night, it's taken me forever to finish this and add pictures) and work backwards and see how many noteworthy things I can come up with...

Tonight I went to "Drums Along the Columbia" , a drum and bugle corp competition,at Edgar Brown Stadium with my mom, Lisa, Graycie, Easton, and Spencer. It was amazing. My mom had been telling the kids about my days as a band geek. She's always so proud and I'm always embarrassed. It was funny to watch Spencer try to figure out the concept of me being younger and having a life before he was born. He kept asking me if the band members were old enough to be married and if I was married when I was in the marching band. Then he went through a longer list of questions, 'Was that before you had a baby in your tummy? Was that before you were a kid? Where was dad?' It's so hard to get them to understand! Easton picked out this souvenir for me,



and Spencer and Graycie came home with miniature colorguard flags. And while I'm totally willing to give props to the guys that are in the colorguard for a great performance, I'm going to start praying now that Spencer will be more influenced by the drums or trumpets instead of the batons and flags. That's just my own personal opinion, as his mother. The performances were fantastic, I'm so glad we went!

Sunday we finished off the big 4th of July weekend by hanging out at my mom's. Last week she bought a new water toy for the kids, the Banzai Skimboard Surfer. They've had a blast on it, even though there's been a few issues with the actual product. A few of the adults have tested it out as well, let's just say, my pop's is still paying for it. I'll post some pictures as soon as I remember to take my camera!





Saturday we started off at the Pancake Breakfast and Parade, where I laughed at Sophie as she waved and yelled hi to everyone and everything in the parade, except the horses- she was worried that they were going to come eat her. We then headed to hang out with Jason's side of the family for a BBQ. The kids swam all afternoon and we had a great time visiting. We ended up at my parent's for a few hours that evening before barely dragging our tired butt's down to the river to watch the fireworks. We tagged along with the Willer's and the Jansen's and had a great time watching them light a few fireworks at the end of the night. It was a crazy, long, tiring, but great 4th.
Unfortunately, I forgot the camera in the stroller after the parade so I only have pictures from Saturday morning!






Friday my super cool cousins took Sophie and Spencer down to the river which left time for Jason and I to run some errands with Carson. We met up with them at the park and then Kimmie took Spencer to the movies. Jason and I took Sophie and Carson and walked the trail that goes through Zintel Canyon. It was fun doing something different and made us anxious to get bikes!

The rest of the week was business as usual...Jason working his two jobs, me pulling my hair out at home. I've been super busy between couponing, which I am crazy addicted too and keeping up with halloween stuff. I also had Lisa's kids for a few mornings while she helped Kaitlin teach swim lessons. The kids all had fun playing together.




Today I'm trying to catch up on laundry, and housework, and hopefully my vacation posts.

Time is seriously flying by!