4th of July

my mother has always wanted to put an in ground pool in at their property. She loves to swim laps. This year her dream finally came true. My children are thrilled. I wish we lived a little closer so we could be there every day (we live 20 min away so we could go up everyday no big deal I’d just like to live more like 5-10 so it wasn’t as much of a commitment:). It’s been pretty hot lately. We are up there a few times a week but if it were up to the three of them we’d spend every day there. The girls have floaties they cruise around in and mr. W swims all over. He LOVES to swim. he get’s it from his daddy who also loves the water. Preferable the ocean with sharks but he’ll take what he can get.

On the 4th my mom was able to host a swim party for her family. I know it was pretty cool for her to have everyone swimming in the new pool. She’s especially happy when the people who have spent a lot of time working on the pool get to use it. The man who designed the pool told her it was going to be to big… He didn’t know much about our family.

there have been a lot of developments since this pictures. The biggest two are that the boys finished the fence and there are a nice set of stairs all the way complete up to the house. (Chrisy and I are thrilled about that one!! it makes for bringing kids up and down way easier) Thank you for all the hard work guys!

my Uncle introducing his first grandbaby to my grandma for the first time. :)

Daniel had to go to sleep:)

my two big kids

water volleyball

on kind of a funny note my mom informed me that “if I'm planning on delivering this baby naturally then every time I’m in the pool I have to do at least ten laps to strengthen my muscles.” She makes me laugh, and in case you are wondering, she’s not joking either. She asks me whenever we are there if I swam. I guess I should listen though because she certainly knows what she is talking about.

wild things

at the beginning of summer we went to this program called Wild things at the library. This group rescues animals and then takes them around to school and such in the area to teach kids about animals. When we were growing up my mom use to take us :) which is pretty fun. William is my animal lover and walked right up and touched this huge snake. the girls weren’t interested.

Found some old pictures

William started soccer this week, and Ironically enough, I just found these pictures from his soccer last year on one of my older flash drives. I figured I’d throw them up and show everyone how much they’ve grown. I have a love hate relationship with my kids growing up. I will definitely miss their young, dependent, and somewhat innocent years. I can get a little busy with mommy days and then look back and try to remember when I just had William and I hardly remember how that even felt, Crazy, especially since baby number four is due in 8ish weeks.

I took this picture driving home from his soccer practice. Uhhh, yeah, I probably shouldn’t have done that :0

this little one looks slightly like a cherub when she’s sound asleep. Love sweet sleeping pictures.

here’s my little one who is honestly such a big girl now.Seriously! the baby days are pretty much gone for her. I love her independence but it does break my heart a little.

Well I hope you enjoy these pictures and my mommy hormone posting doesn’t leave you slightly sad. The fact that they all potty in the toilet and can get up pretty much by themselves in the morning (if I wanted) is a fantastic side of them getting older.

Summer… The beginning. Nick’s family visits

We have had a busy summer. William starts school in about a week. I’m bummed. I love the easy days of summer. I love late mornings where they can get up and play and watch pbs kids and do all sorts of leisure activities. One down side to summer is our house is small and it’s been really hot so they can’t go outside and play much. We have no shade anywhere for them to play in. My mother did put in a pool this summer though, and we have spent many days swimming there, which has been fabulous.

Our week days haven’t been to crazy but every weekend in July was busy busy. Fun filled but busy. I haven’t been blogging much because of how busy we’ve been so I have some major catch up to do. I’ll start back in the beginning of June when Nick family came to visit.

Nick family all came out for his Grandpa’s 80th birthday party. WE met up at Tilden Park in Berkley where this moms cousin runs this really old carousel. I guess Nick went there as a child. My kids thought it was fun. We rode the carousel, played on the grass, rode the carousel  had lunch, rode the carousel, had dessert, and then headed to the ocean.

Keira wasn’t sure how she felt about the carousel

she and daddy ended up ridding on the seat the first round.

Having fun with Grandpa

She knew exatly how she felt about the ice cream :)

the girls of the family redoing a picture from a long time ago.

Nick and all his siblings (oldest to youngest)

Another round and Keira was loving it.

Another sibling shot

Wills took a few pictures

Keira loves to play Duck duck (duck duck goose) whenever you sit on the ground.

Having a chicken fight, just teasing, doing a shoulders picture of the 8 of them. The sequence makes me laugh. It was a bit sketch there for a few minutes.

Wills hanging out with the boys.

playing at the beach. Allie girl was loving it!

It was a cold day at the ocean and Keira wasn’t thrilled at first

Wills fell while running away from a wave and got soaked. I’m pretty use to the kid getting wet when we go places with water. Keira finally warming up to the beach.

We were headed back and Wills pants were falling off. It was pretty funny.

We stayed at a hotel for the party the next day. My kids thought that was a fun adventure!

Allie and Aunt Katie and Uncle Rob with Keira girl :)

Nick enjoying the fact that he had several siblings willing to take a turn on kid duty.

Nick’s mom with her dad

The next day was the big surprise 80th birthday party. I really didn’t take that many pictures. It’s hard to have three little people and take decent pictures. here are the pictures I’m running out of time so I won’t write much about them.

After the party weekend Nick’s parents and three youngest siblings were able to spend the week up in Tahoe with us. My kids had a blast and as I was processing these pictures kept saying everyone's names in the pictures and talking about them. pretty cute. The weather was a bit crazy and it actually snowed the first day were were there. It’s beautiful when it snows up there and I have no idea why I don’t have a picture of that or the boys ridding quads and dirt bikes ?!? They were able to do that a lot and I’m bummed I don’t have a good picture or it.

Wills LOVED playing games, especially war with Grandpa.

Allie playing games with Grandma.

yummy time.

We went to Lake Tahoe. Wills and Hannah decided to take a dip, bahaha for slippery rocks :)

Keira following the Duck.

I feel like I kind of did a bad job taking pictures of all of us. Oh well. I guess I can just try harder next time. For now that’s what I have. I’ll be back to blog, hopefully sooner then the last break I took, with a lot more updates. I wasn’t joking when I said we’d been busy. I’m pretty sure I have 50+ photo’s to share.