The Lake…

We had a wonderfully relaxing long weekend at my parent’s cabin at the lake this weekend.

We did a whole lot of relaxing and reading {Dan reading his new Kindle}.

We did a little birthday celebrating {Happy 36th, baby!}

We did some golf cart riding {Luke’s favorite activity at the lake}.

The boys did a lot of playing {and actually got along!}

We did a lot of swimming {both boys actually took off swimming- yay!}

We did a lot of outdoor grilling {well, Dan did anyway}.

All in all it was a great weekend and just what the doctor ordered!

 

Summer at Home: Week One…

This past week was our first full week of Summer Vacation here at home… and we survived!  The boys chose their cards for the week from their Summer Vacation chart and were a bit excited with the choices.

Monday they pulled the card for a trip to the park, which they thoroughly enjoyed. It was so hot that they were begging to leave, which was fine with me!

Tuesday they chose the card to make playdough, but we ended up not doing this. I had to run errands, Daniel had his library program in the afternoon and then I went out of town for the night with Dan to his meetings and my mom came to stay with the kids.

I arrived back Wednesday in time to wash the car, which is the card they pulled for that day.

The theme for Thursday was Rainbow Day and we did four activities.

First, the boys colored a rainbow.  Daniel’s rainbow was cool, but it didn’t have the colors in order, so I marked through some of the numbers and changed them.  Maybe I’m a smidge anal with some things, I don’t know.

Daniel’s rainbow

Luke’s rainbow

The second thing they did was make Fruit Loop necklaces.  Daniel patterned his in rainbow color order and Luke just strung the cereal.

The third thing we did was paint rainbows.

The last of the rainbow themed activities was making a rainbow cake.  I made it for Easter a couple of years back and it was awesome, but today I tried to half the recipe and it didn’t cook thoroughly and was not that great… but the boys thought is tasted good and looked really cool.  :)

Daniel pulled a few cards from the ‘Nothing to Do’ pocket this week, which seemed to work well.  All in all I would say the week was successful.  We still pretty much went with the flow and just threw in a project each day (or several on Theme Day).  The activities really don’t take all that long, but give a bit of direction to the day.  We’ll see if they stay excited through the summer.  I’m hoping so, since we have little things spliced through the summer as well.

Now, bring on the weekend!

The blog posts that never were…

At times in my life I feel like things are rolling right along and we’re keeping our heads above water.  Then other times I feel like chores and errands and responsiblities mount up and loom over and I can’t keep up.  And I tend to get a bit stressed.  I guess everyone feels like this from time to time. Maybe this always comes with the end of the school year and I just block it out!

I’ve managed to keep some posts going around here, but they mostly revolve around picture with very few words!   I haven’t blogged as much as I would like to anyway.

Like I never blogged about the fact that Dan and I tried to do the Daniel Fast.

The Daniel Fast is a fast where you only eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. 

We lasted 5 days.  We were starved and abandoned the fast in favor of Weight Watchers which is actually going pretty well.

I feel like I was doing the Fast for the wrong reasons or it would have worked out better.  I wanted to loose some weight and really the fast should be done for spiritual reasons.

I also never blogged about our sanded and painted back door.  Actually I mentioned it a few weeks back. 

It’s blue. 

Very blue.

And the paint is thick.

Very thick.

But it’s no longer a peely and red.  And that’s a good thing, right?  Right?

Oh, I also never posted about Daniel getting better at baseball.

Something clicked with him and he figured out that he could hit the ball and actually got a single, triple, RBI, and crossed home plate last week.  We were thrilled!  And even better than that is that he is now excited to go to baseball and cheers on his team!  Yea D3!

I’m sure there are plenty of other things that have been “blog worthy” (or not so much, but whatever).  Oh, like I passed my Teacher Certification test and am now Certified!  That’s a biggie around here. 

I’m going to try and do deep breathing and not stress during these last few weeks of school.  Maybe I should even try to enjoy it… there’s a concept!

Weekend by numbers…

The number of hours (at least) my kids spent playing outside in the beautiful weather!

The number of meals fixed for the family this weekend. 

The number of times a day I have thought about eating a brownie… or anything other than a fruit, vegetable, or whole grain.  But, that’s a post for another day.

The number of hours we spent painting our back door and door frame.

The number of loads of laundry we washed this weekend.  And I’m still not caught up.  I can’t figure out how anyone gets caught up!

The number of hours we spent sanding down our back door and door frame.

Dan said we could never be on that decorating show where you have 3 days to completely re-do a room in your house since it took us 2 days to paint a door.  :)

The number of times Daniel connected with the ball at Baseball practice Sunday.  This is a big deal for him.  He’s having a hard time adjusting to machine pitched baseball.

The number of days D3 had off from school this weekend.

The number of mornings I was able to sleep until 8:00. This is really sleeping in since kids!

Great weekend!!

Wonderful Easter Weekend and the Camera Challenge…

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! The temperature was wonderful and we stayed busy!

I, however, don’t have the best selection of pictures. I was quite camera challenged this weekend.

Saturday we ran a few errand and finally dyed Easter Eggs.

Luke dyed his eggs using a whisk. I got that great idea from Family Fun. It keeps his fingers- or whole hand- from getting in the dye. I just put the egg inside the whisk and he put it in the cup himself.

Saturday night Daniel went to a Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt.

I forgot my camera that night! I really wanted to get some pictures, because it was such a cute, fun egg hunt. The kids played and ate dinner and when it got dark out, the adults hid the eggs and then the kids went out to hunt the eggs with their flashlights.

It was the most peaceful egg hunt I’ve ever seen! The kids had a ball.

I continued with the trend of bad pictures on Easter Sunday as well. I didn’t take any before pictures of the Easter baskets…

only the aftermath.

Then there was the pressure of the family picture… I’m not sure how I got talked into that one.

There is the ‘sun is way too bright’ version:

And the ‘one member of the family crying because Mommy got onto him for constantly making faces because the sun is too bright’ version:

Then we tried to get pictures of the boys together.

Daniel picked out his clothes this year for Easter. The boy loves to dress up.

We went to a great morning of worship and then headed back home for an Easter lunch. There was also a mega nap thrown in there too. Can’t beat that kind of day…or weekend!

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