Fun in the Sun

We bought the "pass of all passes" this year. If you're not from around here, that means that we get an unlimited pass to the water park, the fun center and all kinds of other little things. Unfortunately, I don't usually take my camera when we go swimming, or to play mini golf, but I will try to get some pictures sometime.
I LOVE having our passes. We have used them so many times already. I love not feeling rushed, or that I need to do everything that time. It's nice to go to the water park and decide that it's too busy to do the tube rides that day and just play in the lazy river and wave pool. Then other days we go on the slides. We've been playing hard and having fun.
On top of that, I decided that I really can teach piano lessons. I have 7 students. 4 of them are brand new beginners and the other have played a little bit. I've been doing it for about 3 weeks now and it's been going really well. I love to teach and it's been fun for me to work with the kids.
All in all this has been a pretty busy and fun summer. I love summertime and I think I can safely say that my kids do too.

Father's Day

 Toby is pretty amazing. If you don't know him, then let me tell you. He does it all. I'm pretty sure there isn't anything he can't do (except play basketball of course haha). He woks hard at work, comes home and plays with us, works hard on his other projects, grows a garden, works with the scouts, plans trips, and still has time to relax. It's pretty spectacular really. I'm so lucky to have married him and our boys couldn't have a greater example for a dad.

I know all the pictures are pretty much the same thing, but I liked them all for different reason. I wanted to make sure to show the cute little project the boys made.

My little fireman

Porter was playing before church the other day and put on our fireman hat. Of course, the outfit wasn't complete until he pulled out the vacuum as his firehouse. I wish you could see his face, but kids are only so cooperative when you pull out the camera.

Boy's room

Zeke wanted me to take a picture of his room today. I figured it would be much cuter with them in the picture, so this is Zeke and Porter at bedtime.It doesn't show the whole room but he'll like it anyway.

Pinterest Projects

 We've been tying out some projects from Pinterest lately. Zeke thinks it's called address and asks me to look up a project on address for us to do. We also did a rainbow project and a jellyfish but I forgot to take pictures of those. These boys love to be busy and it's all I can do to keep up with them sometimes. On the other hand, I took them to the splash pad today and couldn't believe how easy it was. I didn't have to hold a little kid's hand the whole time. They just ran off and played while I sat and enjoyed the sunshine. Weird.

GOOOAAAALLLLL

Zeke had a soccer game last night.

IT WAS AWESOME!

The other team was bad. Really bad. They all looked to be about Porter's age/size. There was one kid about Zeke's height, but not his same size. (Not many kids are Zeke's size) Well, Zeke finally got his chance to break away. There were only 4 kids there so Zeke got to play the whole game. He scored in the first couple minutes and then there was no stopping him after that. I didn't yell once for him to pay attention to the ball. He was there waiting. He would kick away from the other team and then take it down and score. After each goal he would come over to us and count out how many goals he had on his fingers. It was hilarious! He scored 11 goals. Actually he scored 12 if you count the one he scored right after half time when they switched which way they were going.

It was actually really hard for me to let him go. I'm sure the other team thought he was ruthless. They had no idea this was the first game he had scored in. He was using his body to get in there next to the ball. He even sent one of his teammates flying a couple times on accident. I kept wanting to yell for him to let the other team have it for a minute, but that would have been too confusing.

So, we let him score 11 goals... and he loved it!

Slacker!

I know I'm a slacker. I'm going to be a slacker for a few more days too. I'm so excited. I'm going with my mom, Tyleen and Janiece on a little retreat. So during that time I will probably not write anything.

Instead, I will leave you with a quote from Zeke.

"Nobody has seen any wolves in this whole wide village in 25 years."

I know it is completely random and may not make any sense, but he's always talking about seeing things in our whole wide city, and this time our whole wide village. It cracks me up.