LaZy Summer Days

 

 

 

I guess I can't say we have been super lazy this Summer.

In fact, I think this is the first year we have been up and at it by 8:30.

For me, the queen of loving to sleep in... I impressed myself even!

 

Our June and first week of July schedule went like this:

Wake up at 7:30, eat breakfast and throw on swim suits (for the kids).

Go to Brimhall for 8:30 swim team practice.

Come home for a quick thirty minutes then load back in the car for swim lessons.

Rusty had his class first and Lindi was second.

Come home starving for some lunch.

Nap time.

Afternoon play time.

 

It really was the perfect schedule to keep kids from complaining

that they were bored!

 

 

This year was Lindi's first year of swim lessons.

AND she hated it.

Usually by 2 or 3 lessons most kids quit crying.

She got to the point where she was happy during the first half.

But would start to whimper when she knew jumping off of the diving board

was drawing near. Then she was a lost cause the whole second half.

Oh well:)

 

 Lane did well for his second year on the swim team.

Unfortunately, we only made it to 2 of the swim meets.

But he got 2nd and two 3rd place ribbons!

I think its funny how they bring out the kids to line up for their races,

choo choo train style.

 

 We would find ourselves at the pool often.

This day I was watching them from the patio.

They seemed so relaxed, soaking in all of the wonderful Arizona sun.

 

 

 

Lindi was naughty and wore a bikini behind my back.

Haha. just kidding. I couldn't resist a gold, polka dot ruffled 2 piece.

Next year we will crack down on modesty:)

 

 When I was taking this picture I couldn't help but think,

does he think he is back in the womb or something?

I don't know why but he loves to fall asleep in the most uncomfortable positions! 

 I had a car full of kids and the only spot left for Rusty was the front seat.

He was so excited because obviously he knows he isn't allowed to sit up there but

I was in a bind. I buckled Lindi in her car seat and when I looked up Rusty

had on my glasses and said with the happiest tone, I'm all ready to go mom!!

 

We did have a week of being sick.

It. was. horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was folding laundry in my room and hadn't heard any noises in a while.

When I peeked into the living room I found 2 sleeping boys.

I knew something was up, they never fall asleep like that.

I had a doctors appointment for Lindi that afternoon because she had a horrible cough.

She had bronchitis.

I came home, fed the kids then Lane said his throat was all red.

Sure enough, it was.

Loaded both boys in the car and headed back to the doctor

to find out they had strep throat.

The next day I started coughing and got laryngitis.

You would have thought it was Winter time at our house!

(11am)

 

 

Poor pups.

When I told them I was taking them to the doctor they both started crying and freaking out

because they didn't want to get shots. It seriously took Casey and I 15 minutes to calm them

down and promise them they were not getting shots!

Instead they got otter pops.

Way to win them over, docs!

 We went out to Sushi for Jefferson's Birthday!

I love my siblings.

We went to RA, I love it there.

It's such a fun atmosphere.

And I am shocking myself with starting to love sushi!

So far I will only venture out to the Vegas roll.

It's deep fried:)

I opened a can of worms and let her drink a Capri Sun.

She's hooked and thought she was such a big girl.

One of the best days of my life

 

 

WE GOT A NEW SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!

 

Can you tell I am pretty exciting about it?:)

I hated our master shower ever since we bought our house 7.5 years ago.

*Hated is an understatement.

It was a shower tub.

I severely dislike shower tubs.

The finish was all worn off so even after you scrubbed for an hour,

 it still never looked clean.

One of the sliding glass doors broke so we could only open one end.

The only thing it was good for was to drape our clothes over the top

 that couldn't go in the dryer to air dry.

 

We contemplated seriously for years if we should gut it out.

We don't know how long we will be living in this house

and didn't want to spend the money if we decided to move soon.

The faucet started leaking so we decided to pull the trigger.

 

 

Here is the before:

The day of the demo was probably one of the happiest days ever!

Jake our friend is the one who did the work for us.

When he pulled up I literally screamed with excitement and wanted to give him a bear hug.

 

Here he is telling his crew what the game plan was.

Of course these guys didn't know a lick of English.

And here it is all gutted out!

 



 

It took about a week and a half for it all to be installed.

Which means a week in a half Casey and I slept on the couches

because our bed and room was covered in plastic and dust.

And a week and a half I had random men in and out of my house.

And a week and a half I got to listen to the Spanish station on Pandora

blasting from our bathroom.

 

Here is a  progress picture.



 

I had to leave for girls camp before it was all done.

But when I returned I couldn't believe my eyes.

Here are the after pictures:

 



 

 

I love, love, LOVE IT!!!

It couldn't have turned out more perfect.

Casey was sure busy while I was gone.

He made sure that everything was done for my arrival.

Including making sure the house was clean and all put back together.

I had the privilege of taking the first shower:)

I love how it's a walk in and there is no glass door I have to worry about keeping clean.

We were worried about there being a draft but we have not had any issues so far.

It feels a whole lot bigger than the nasty shower tub.

Its my new sanctuary! I already was known for taking long showers.

Now I take really long showers!

And its Lindi's new playing grounds:)

Other happenings

 

Lane had another great season of baseball!

Only this year was coach pitch.

I figured I will be buying baseball pictures for the rest of my life

so I opted out of purchasing team pics this year.

I brought my camera and zoomed in as close as I could.

It didn't turn out bad at all, and saved me 30 bucks!:)

 

 

He played in 2 different All Star leagues.

One in Gilbert and one in Mesa.

I have no idea why they made them play the Gilbert team.

They were a whole year older and they lost the first game so they were out.

But in the Mesa league they got 2nd place!

He has been playing with his best buds for 3 years now and they

are all so good at this sport!

 

I found this selfie on my phone and thought it was cute.



I went to girls camp for the first time in 10 years!

It was a ward camp this year and we had lots of fun!

A family in our ward let us stay at their cabin in Heber.

This is a group pic of all the leaders.

Such an amazing group of ladies.

We hardly slept at all with our late night chats.



All of the YW!

This was on the 3rd and 4th year hike.

It was 4.5 miles but was really enjoyable.

We hiked to the lake then back out to the road.

They each had marshmallow guns that were being fired

constantly during the whole hike.

Who's idea was that?!

 

 One of the girls was trying to shoot one into my mouth.
I put my hat over my eyes and hoped I wouldn't choke if it actually did go in!

 



Another day we went back to the lake for some kayaking and canoeing.

I forgot how fun (and tiring) girls camp can be!

All of our girls are delightful to be around so that always makes it nice as well.

Lane lost his first tooth.

Yes, at the age of 7.

I never thought any of his teeth would come out!

 

We celebrated Fathers Day.

We had dinner over at my parents and dessert at my in-laws.

So grateful for wonderful grandfather figures in my children's life!

 

We especially love our DAD!

We made a poster board with pictures of them all at the hospital

when they were born. It was fun to see if Casey could guess which

child was who.

 Hospital baby blankets and beanies make it hard to distinguish them.

Casey was fixing the stroller and Lindi wanted to help.

She picked up a screw driver and went right to work!

She is obsessed with goggles.

She will wear them all around the house.

Marcie was babysitting and sent this to us.

It gave us the giggles.

Cousins came to play!

 

 

 

My sister fell down her stairs and broke her back a few weeks ago.

Her recovery would take her 4-6 weeks.

My mom went and picked up her kids in New Mexico and brought them

back here so my sister could rest and heal.

We would have them for 2 weeks.

If you ask my sister it was the worst 2 weeks of her life.

And I'm sure it was. She was in a lot of pain and

the feeling of being helpless is not fun at all.

But for us we were excited to have cousins over

for spend the nights and lots of play time!

 

We had Collin and Weston for most of the first week.

Casey took them on an errand and I received this picture in a text.

I don't know what we did to wear them out!

 

 We also got to have miss Olive spend the night a few nights the second week.

Lindi and Olive are 6 months apart.

Lindi LOVES Olive.

I swear she even learned how to say her name.

Lindi and Olive remind me of Stephanie and I.

Even down to their looks.

 

 

Stephanie is on the left, I am on the right

 

 

On the first night Olive wasn't so sure about bath time.

I later found out that she had never taken a real bath yet,

she was still using the baby tub.

Oops, no wonder she was so freaked out!

Lindi's face was cracking me up.

Not so sure what to think of that crying baby!

 They played together, just like they were sisters.

 On the second night I filled the bath tub up first, then put Olive in it.

I think the noise made her nervous. It worked, she didn't cry at all!

I tell ya, they played so well!

 

I kept thinking about how this is what it would be like to have twins.

There are lots of pictures of my mom sitting in her rocking chair holding

Stephanie and I when we were babies.

It really wasn't hard at all to have 2 babies at the same time.

Granted Olive came sleeping through the night and on a normal schedule:)

I also keep forgetting my mom was only 21 when she had us.

I still don't know how she survived twins then turned around and had 6 more!

 

 

At the end of the 2 weeks Stephanie and Travis drove down to Mesa.

And thankfully her back was feeling much better!

It was Memorial Day so we had a bbq with my family.