The summer of no pictures

Our summer is finally winding down. The kids just attended the last of their summer sports camps today. Now I'm just hoping they forget that the fair will be in town next week; I would love to just avoid that one altogether.

This summer I have been SUPER pregnant, SUPER big, SUPER hot, SUPER sick, SUPER cranky, and SUPER uncomfortable which has turned me into a SUPER lazy picture taker. I haven't taken any pics of the kids this summer because that would require lugging my camera around and moving from place to place to get a good shot of them. About all I've been able to muster up the energy to do is haul a camping chair to the general vicinity the kids are, and parking it for a few hours to watch them play. Sad, I know, but oh sooo true.

Since I don't have any pictures for proof, I asked the kids to make me a list of all of the fun things we did this summer. Here's what they came up with, in no particular order.

Swimming

Tennis Camp

Volleyball Camp

Boating with cousins

Waterpark

"Real Paying" babysitting jobs for Alaina

Illegal fireworks on the 4th

Beehive Camp

Going to work with Dad

Sleepovers at Grandma's & Grandpa's

Boyscout Camp

Shooting off rockets

Chuck E Cheese

Camp Kiwanis with the Roses

Band Camp

Mom's Birthday

Summer School

Basketball Camp

Playdates & lateovers with friends

Swim Lessons

Silverwood

Golf Camp

Going to the library

Ice Blocking

Family BBQ's

Pedicures

Roller Skating

Rope Swinging into the lake

Bowling

Playing at the Park

Scouts & Mutual Activities

Fishing

Sandbox fun and homemade slip & slide

Camping with the Armitage's & Madder's

Backyard Movie Nights

Sleeping on the Trampoline

We didn't do a lot of out of town stuff or any big major vacations this summer. But the little local stuff adds up to a busy and full summer, FOR SURE. I am glad that they had fun and that their lazy, pregnant mom didn't totally ruin everything for them:)

36 weeks

Today's ultrasound didn't produce great pics of the baby because it's getting a little cramped inside my old belly. The ultrasound tech printed me a profile picture of the baby's face but his knee and foot were covering half of it so you couldn't see much. The baby was grabbing his toes so the picture she printed of his foot is a big mash up of toes and fingers.

When I arrived home from my appointment the kids were excited and then quickly disappointed when they couldn't decipher the body parts they were looking at in the pictures. I decided to go online and find a 36 week picture so they could get a good idea of what is going on with the baby inside of me and this is what I found. My kids were amazed by this picture and had lots of comments and questions after seeing it which was fun.

Hudson of course had to giggle and make a silly comment about the babies private parts and Kase just said, "Man... our baby should do gymnastics. I think he'll be the most flexible kid in our whole family." :)

Health wise the baby is doing great. For the last month or so I've been struggling with high blood pressure so they are watching that pretty closely right now but other than that things seem to be going pretty well and we are definitely coming into the home stretch now. Yeah!

Grandma & Grandpa Mount's Anniversary

Grandma and Grandpa Mount invited the whole family up to Cheney to celebrate their Anniversary and birthdays this weekend. They took everyone to Silverwood on Friday.

Holy Cow! Can you believe that? I'm not sure how much fun they had at the park, but all of the kids had a blast!

The kids wanted to start the day off with a bang, so they chose Temors as the first ride of the morning. Hudson was tall enough to join them and was super excited to try out a BIG roller coaster.

Here are the kids before the ride...

And during :)

Dan and Hudson before the ride...

And during :)

Hudson ended up deciding that Temors was a little too BIG of a ride for him and said it made his face go like this...

We then headed over to the kiddie section of the park to get his confidence level back up.

Dumbo, trains, flying airplanes, and log rides here we come.

Kase and Kaden throwing up some gangster signs.

The second part of the day was spent at the water park, which the kids loved.

Their favorite thing this year was the wave pool...

and the huge family style tube slides.

On Saturday Grandma and Grandpa Mount got everyone together for family pictures and then spoiled us to a fancy catered lunch.

The best part of the weekend for Dan and I was hanging out with family, some of which we haven't seen since our early married years. Good times.

Thanks for the great weekend Grandma and Grandpa Mount and Happy Anniversary!

Cooling Dad off after work

Dan had a little surprise awaiting him in the backyard when he came home from work today.

The kids mission: "Super Soak the Dad"

Dan was taken down pretty easy by our 4 year old. It may have had something to do with it being close to 100 degrees today, but then again Hudson has be working out :)

Mission Accomplished!

Rose weekend

All of my sisters and brother were here for the weekend so we turned it into a little mini family reunion of sorts. We went ice blocking, had burgers and shakes for lunch at the Bombers stand, swam in Aunt Kathy's pool, had a BBQ at mom and dad's for dinner, then games and movies for the rest of the night. (Plus a cousins sleepover on the trampoline, with an outdoor movie last night) Glad everyone could make it, Dan and I and our kids had a ton of fun.

Happy birthday to me.

When I woke up this morning I didn't so much feel another year older as I did another year more pregnant. This baby is taking over my body and TUMS are my new best friend. I feel way to old to be doing this. I definitely notice a huge difference from having kids in my twenties to having kids in my mid thirties. Holy cow, what an adventure.

Most of this last week I've been on a little bed rest recovering from a minor surgery I had done. A surgery I'll not go into other than saying, It's been a real "pain in the butt" If you catch my drift :) Ugh.

But today is my birthday, I have family in town and I'm ready to celebrate!

Plans for today include... movie with my girls, pedicures, lunch date, and a dinner date night with the rest of my fam. Should be fun!

The 4th

Dan got all of his business and work stuff done by 11am and was able to spend the rest of the 4th with the family today. It was AWESOME!

We tie died t-shirts in red, white, and blue for the 4th.

Here are everyones creations.

We took the kids swimming at the Armitage's house for a while to cool off in the afternoon.

Then it was off to grandma and grandpa Ostler's for dinner and fireworks.

We had a great day of celebrating with the fam!

Raspberries Round 2

Our second batch of raspberries were picked today and turned into raspberry jam.

I have a feeling we're going to need more. We'll see how long this lasts :)