Summer Fun

As I mentioned before, I'm too lazy to carry my good camera with me anymore and have resorted to cell phone photos as my only means to record our family activities.  Thank goodness for my friend Kim, AKA my personal family photographer, who is managing to capture beautiful pics of my kids every time we hang out which is thankfully a lot.

Here are some of her wonderful photos from a few of our recent activities:

At the berry-picking farm, Logan and Bri

Too bad Jack won't actually eat boysenberries

Brothers

Des' perfect strawberry

Getting strawberry stains on our butts

Des and her own personal cheek fireworks 

Waiting and more waiting for the fireworks to start

 

Long days in the pool with friends

Kids reggae concert with lots of friends

Des' game face on the field

Logan practicing some serious soccer skills

Thank you Kim for acting as my personal photographer over the summer...my kids will thank you years from now too!

Summer so far...

So far I am surviving summer...but my sanity is on the line every day!

So far, the boys have had one week of half-day soccer camp. All four kids have taken a weeks worth of swim lessons. The boys have weekly karate class and the girls have weekly hair appointments. The whole family (with Nana and Granddad) have had a vacation to a nearby mountain lake. Add in a Fourth of July weekend and a few playdates and you can tell that my plan has simply been to keep everyone busy, busy, busy!

Here are some of the highlights thus far (in photos):

Hair appointments:

New pets:

Karate:


4th of July (the girls' first!):
Soccer camp:


Vacation:

November

I've been missing from blogland again...but I still want to document our life so I'm going to cheat and do a mostly photo recap post. (I mentioned I was cheating, right? Well, I'm cheating so much that this November post is going to have the last couple days of October included.)

For Halloween, Jack and Logan wanted to be clone troopers (Commanders Cody and Rex, I believe). And because I left Scott in charge of costumes this year (a mistake I'm not likely to repeat), Des and Bri were Ewokes.

The only way to tell the Ewokes apart is their color-coded earclip flowers.
This is purple so it must be Des.

Not sure Bri likes her costume...

Somebody mentioned candy...let's get going!

Jack and Logan played a very short season of soccer. Jack knew two classmates on a team that had lost several players throughout the season. So both Jack and Logan signed on and though it was halfway through the season and their first ever attempt at a team sport, they both did awesome.


A day at the beach...

Random collection of shots...


A trip to visit Nana and Granddad for Thanksgiving...