More Summer Activities

We've stayed pretty busy as we came into July. The weather has been super duper hot, which is great for hanging at the city pool! Unfortunately with this hot weather has come some summer storms, which has been very stressful for Ike-we had to get them out of bed last month when a tornado warning was issued and ever since he has struggled with thunderstorms. Hoping he can concur his fear soon!

It has been great being off work (I'm off for the month of July) and we are gearing up to go on vacation next week. We've had some overnight guests but I'll blog about them in a separate post. For now here is what we've been up to the first part of July.








Ike with the cute raccoon he got from the dentist-everybody got a clean bill of health!















Reading Dog Man. Both boys love these books.


















Date night to Joseph Decuis' Friday night patio bbq and Two-EE's Winery for some music.

Bennett came to hang out after church.

Ike found tons of baby frogs at Josh's parent's house.















Our church and a bunch of other local churches came together for VBS this year. It was so fun and my friend Jodi and I (along with lots and lots of other wonderful ladies) volunteered in the craft room. It was so fun seeing all the kiddos in the community!

Dave and Alec on the first day. Ike missed the first day for his last baseball game.

The set was so cool-the whole VBS was video game themed.

Ike and Bennett in crafts.

A couple of Fridays ago the kids and I went with Josh's parents to pick strawberries. It was fun but I did feel a bit like a drill sergeant making sure they stayed in the right rows and picking only ripe ones :) The end result was worth it though!

The boys just love going to the city pool and we often take a couple of extras along with us!

Dave, Ike, Brystol and Alec.

I finally finished my Mt. Rushmore puzzle. This thing has plagued me for months!

AND we finished the 6th Harry Potter book. One more to go before our trip to Wizarding World in October!











I've said it many times before but man I sure love our library! The kids have been reading up a storm to earn their points and we've gone to a bunch of inventors club activities they have every week.






Making bristle bots for their mazes.

















They made kites out of trash bags!

They worked pretty well.



















Last week Dave chose to stay and play basketball so Ike and I went and he made this cool grabber contraption.













Dave loves to help cook, here he is making short ribs with Josh.

They were delicious!

Lots and lots of pool time followed by ice cream at Rivertown.

Josh and I ate Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World. Reliving our high school days!