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!