End of June

The boys love to play go fish all together as a family, they love it when they ask for a card we have and we have to hand it to them. It never gets old to them! So before bed we agreed to play one game.

But first Rett and James had to try to make me smell their stinky feet.

This is Anthony, reading about bee stuff on his phone while playing the game. It happens a lot.

We were brave and took the kids with us to Walmart (I usually try everything I can to avoid taking them with me) and they had to try these dinosaur heads on.

We spotted a soft shell turtle crossing the road! I don't think I had ever seen one up close out of the water before.

The library programs have been really cool this summer, so we have been spending a lot of time there. The larger library in New Smyrna has a great children's area with small puzzles and games for the kids to play with. It makes it soooo much easier to wait for things when they have those to play with.

This week the summer program was circus themed and they had a woman come to teach the kids how to juggle scarves and spin plastic plates. They loved it!

James has his tutoring at the library once a week for an hour, so while he was doing that, Rett and I did their "Lego Challenge" program. Each week they give the kids a theme and let them build whatever they want from a table full of legos. The theme was "things you find at a circus" so Rett picked out a bunch of gray legos for an elephant and I figured out how to put them together. I was so dang proud of how it turned out!

I recently got released from my calling in the stake primary and immediately (like a few hours later the same day at church) got called to be our ward's primary music leader. So I've been having a lot of fun planning games and gathering props for primary. I decided to make paper crowns for kids when we sing to them for their birthday, so of course the boys wanted to test drive them.

I also introduced the boys to playing battleship. It takes a million years to play, but they love it.

I has having one of those days where the kids are wired, acting crazy, not giving me a break and it was rough. I started texting my mom and my brothers asking them what is the age limit for dropping kids off at the fire station and they started texting back funny memes to help me feel better. So I decided that since I was hot and sweaty since Florida is THE SURFACE OF THE SUN in summer, that a relaxing bath would help me feel better. As soon as I got in, the boys followed me into the bathroom and begged to put their feet in the water. So this was my break from them after a day of driving me crazy:

It turns out my brother was only 45 minutes away since he had to drop my mom off at the airport, so he decided to take a detour and visit for a few hours and try to help me feel better. We ended up getting tacos for dinner while Anthony took the boys on an errand and it was HEAVEN! I have such an awesome family, I wish they lived closer!

Showing Anthony battleship:

My phone was limping along with a really bad battery that wouldn't stay charged and started doing this thing where the actual phone part wouldn't work, I couldn't hear anything when I was talking on the phone unless I had speaker phone turned on. So I finally upgraded my phone and I am loving the fancy camera options! I had to take lots of pictures just to try them out:

We tried out a library program advertised as a carnival. Using the word "carnival" was kind of a let down for the boys because it was really only a few little games in a room, but it was free and air conditioned so you can't complain too much! We also got to see Rett and my lego creation in the display case by the front door:

Potato sack race:

Hula hoops:

Rett colored a mask and wore it for the next couple of days: