We are three weeks into the summer and I have had a love/hate relationship with it! I love it because it's nice to have time with the kids but have been counting down the days till school starts again because I sometimes feel like I need to be entertaining my kids all the time to keep them out of trouble! It has been getting better as we have added some activities to the schedule but it has been a hard adjustment to be out of school. This week, Aidan has been in seventh heaven participating in the a basketball camp at the fitness center. Give him a ball and he would be content to shoot baskets and dribble for hours! Aaron was so disappointed when they called and cancelled his T-ball camp I signed him up for this week. Not enough kids signed up...but he will be doing a sports skill camp next week. I sent Kalli off this morning to Girls camp for the week and I am so excited for her. She was a little anxious and when we got there with all the girls said, "Mom, I changed my mind. I want to stay home now" But, she didn't really mean it. And once she heard Sister Hatch would be there all week, she was happy. She is going to have a fantastic week and I'm so excited for her. I am so grateful to all the leaders that spend so much time making sure the girls have a good experience. Hopefully she will use the camera I sent with her and take some good pictures for me to share next week.
The weather is warming up and I hope that it will help our garden. Our poor garden doesn't look very good. I should have planted more cold weather vegetables but I didn't think it would stay as cold as it has. My tomatoes and peppers are growing thankfully, but some of them just look sad. I don't know if our watermelon and cantalope will make it. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours weeding and it felt good. We got the irrigation early this morning so it is too muddy to go in the garden today..I still need to weed my corn plants. :-) Poor Scott didn't sleep a whole last night taking care of the water and he has to work and go to school today. He won't be home until 10:30 tonight and I just hope he doesn't fall asleep at work! He made the Dean's List this past semester and got a small scholarship and I am just so proud of all the hard work he is putting into school. He has 2 weeks left of this semester and then he only has 2 more semesters and he is done in December. He really enjoys school though. If he could go to school for a job and get paid for it, he would. :-)
We had a fun get together with our Pyne extended family on Father's Day. We celebrated five June birthdays, including mine and Father's Day and had ice cream and cake and lots of fun visiting with each other. My siblings kids are all getting so big and they are all so cute. I turned 38 this year but I don't feel it. I feel like I am 18 with more experience than I had then! I love all the things that I have learned over the year and hope that I continue learning, growing and progressing.
I have been enjoying my books this month. I have a little more time to read than usual since I'm not running kids to school and school activities. Plus when the kids have done their camps and Kalli had swim lessons last week, I have had a chance to read while I wait for them. I started and finished President Monson's biography called "To the Rescue" which I highly recommend. I love books that make you want to be a better person. And it was so fun to read about what a prankster he was as a kid! I am reading five books right now and I can't make up my mind which one to concentrate on so I just pick up one that I'm in the mood for reading. I'm reading: "Mark of Royalty" by Jennifer Clark and Stephonie Williams; Dreams of Joy by Lisa See; Wild Swans by Jung Chang; Kissing a Frog by Sharlene Wells Hawkes and The Color Code by Taylor Hartman. I've read the Color Code before and that is another post in and of itself! Oh, how I love to read!
This week the weather is supposed to be warming up quite a bit. I think we will finally put up our air conditioning unit. Also, I know some park outings are on the agenda and some playdates with cousins that are always fun. I am running two more 5K's this summer and I need to get myself in shape for those! I do love summer, I just don't like to hear the words, "I'm bored!" and my husband is so much better at getting our kids to work than I am! He's got the special touch to work along side them but I can tell them to please get their jobs done and they stare at me like I'm an alien! Oh, well...we still have a lot of fun activities planned for the rest of the summer, so stay tuned for more blogs about our fun summer!
The weather is warming up and I hope that it will help our garden. Our poor garden doesn't look very good. I should have planted more cold weather vegetables but I didn't think it would stay as cold as it has. My tomatoes and peppers are growing thankfully, but some of them just look sad. I don't know if our watermelon and cantalope will make it. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours weeding and it felt good. We got the irrigation early this morning so it is too muddy to go in the garden today..I still need to weed my corn plants. :-) Poor Scott didn't sleep a whole last night taking care of the water and he has to work and go to school today. He won't be home until 10:30 tonight and I just hope he doesn't fall asleep at work! He made the Dean's List this past semester and got a small scholarship and I am just so proud of all the hard work he is putting into school. He has 2 weeks left of this semester and then he only has 2 more semesters and he is done in December. He really enjoys school though. If he could go to school for a job and get paid for it, he would. :-)
We had a fun get together with our Pyne extended family on Father's Day. We celebrated five June birthdays, including mine and Father's Day and had ice cream and cake and lots of fun visiting with each other. My siblings kids are all getting so big and they are all so cute. I turned 38 this year but I don't feel it. I feel like I am 18 with more experience than I had then! I love all the things that I have learned over the year and hope that I continue learning, growing and progressing.
I have been enjoying my books this month. I have a little more time to read than usual since I'm not running kids to school and school activities. Plus when the kids have done their camps and Kalli had swim lessons last week, I have had a chance to read while I wait for them. I started and finished President Monson's biography called "To the Rescue" which I highly recommend. I love books that make you want to be a better person. And it was so fun to read about what a prankster he was as a kid! I am reading five books right now and I can't make up my mind which one to concentrate on so I just pick up one that I'm in the mood for reading. I'm reading: "Mark of Royalty" by Jennifer Clark and Stephonie Williams; Dreams of Joy by Lisa See; Wild Swans by Jung Chang; Kissing a Frog by Sharlene Wells Hawkes and The Color Code by Taylor Hartman. I've read the Color Code before and that is another post in and of itself! Oh, how I love to read!
This week the weather is supposed to be warming up quite a bit. I think we will finally put up our air conditioning unit. Also, I know some park outings are on the agenda and some playdates with cousins that are always fun. I am running two more 5K's this summer and I need to get myself in shape for those! I do love summer, I just don't like to hear the words, "I'm bored!" and my husband is so much better at getting our kids to work than I am! He's got the special touch to work along side them but I can tell them to please get their jobs done and they stare at me like I'm an alien! Oh, well...we still have a lot of fun activities planned for the rest of the summer, so stay tuned for more blogs about our fun summer!
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Wow, that was quite the update! Congrats to Scott on the Dean's List & scholarship - that's awesome! and good luck with the garden and keeping kids entertained throughout the summer. :D
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