summer begins

last week was our first week of summer break. we spent most of the week learning how to all be in the same house all day together. we had to relearn how to treat each other and how to clean up after ourselves. we worked on chore charts and good behavior charts ( i hope to post more on these soon).

we also played in the hose, rode bikes, had picnics, played with our baby animals, painted and built a city for our toys to drive through.

garret started out by drawing a cool track and it sparked some great ideas. so we worked together and used sticks, and rocks, and bricks, and grass, and seed pods and came up with a really cool little town. complete with a country road by the mountains and farm fields and the big high way that went around the outside.
it was fun to work on it with garret. it made me think back to when i was a kid. i loved doing that kind of stuff. garret thought i had some pretty cool ideas too so that made me smile. he kept saying "how do you know about this kind of stuff?" ha ha
this week we will spend packing and getting ready for a trip to florida. we are not going all the way down to mom and dads this time. we will be up in the clearwater area. we are going to visit great grandma joan in Ocala, scott and nicole in tampa and then meet up with some friends at their beach front condo. we might even try to squeeze in a trip to Disney half way through the week. we are SO excited. we have never gone on a week long summer vacation and are really looking forward to it.

ugg and i have been forgetting to name the things i have been thankful for at the end of my posts: so i'll try again...

cool mornings

the birds singing

warm evenings

a fresh cut lawn

girls with cute summer hair cuts

playing like a kid again

anticipation of our vacation

gold fish in the pond

fried egg sandwiches made with our own eggs

barefoot kids