June

 

I love June! The beginning of summer where everything is so exciting and we are just loving the warm weather and the freedom that summer break gives us! We started off our summer fast and furious. We have been playing all summer and have had so much fun! It’s been full of lots of swimming, playing with friends, spending time outside, and just hanging out together!

One of the sweetest parts of our summer have been our cousin swim days. We always look forward to our Saturday swim night we’ve been doing for years at my parents house. This year Kate and I decide that Wednesday would also be cousin swim morning. We pack a lunch and hang out at the pool all morning together. We’ve also included the Newbolds, which has been so fun (and also sad since they are moving far away later this summer!). Lila and Rose have really bonded this summer. They are the sweetest together and their friendship is reaching new heights! We’ve all been gushing over how cute these two are together this summer!

Chase had a great baseball season! Ben signed up to be his coach and they had so much fun together. Their team didn’t win very many games, but it didn’t seem to matter. The boys all had so much fun together and they all learned so much! After they lost in the first round of the tournament, we had all the boys over for a swim party later that week. It made me so happy to see this group of boys having an absolute ball in the pool together! It didn’t matter anymore that they didn’t win. Sign of a successful season for sure!

Hudson’s creativity never ceases to amaze me. He got this frame randomly from school because his teacher was getting rid of it. He’s been filling it with important things to him. He also has not stopped talking about technology all summer. Specifically, which technology he would like to invent in the future. Mostly features he’d add to phones, tablets and computers. Look out world, this kid has some ideas!

I’ve spent so much time at the pool with my kids this summer and I regret none of it! I decided not to teach swim lessons this summer and I’m so glad. It’s been nice to just soak in my kids. Lila is good for about 45 minutes in the pool and then she mostly wants to sit poolside and snack. I have to be wherever she is- if she’s in, than I am too.  If she’s out, I am too. And it’s always a plus if I can get her to sit poolside wearing SOMETHING. She loves to just be naked after swimming for a good hour.

Davis found this little rolie polie the other day and he was so cute with it. Let’s face it, I think everything this charming child does is so cute. He’s just the best. 

This was a Sunday evening we spent in the backyard. We are having our deck rebuilt this summer, which has made a huge mess of our yard. But we are having fun seeing it come together and dreaming and planning about other things we’d like to still do back there!

We went to Salt Lake one night to see the Hickman’s perform a fun Disney concert at a park downtown. It was mostly the adults, but they put their kids in a few songs and my kids were so excited to support their buddy Will! The kids all loved the concert, and I have to admit I was smiling ear to ear watching them. Our friends are so talented! 

I’m actually enjoying having all the kids home for lunch! Chase likes to play with a friend as soon as his jobs are done and he hops on his bike to go find one right away. But he knows he has to be home at 12:30 for lunch and it’s been fun to be together in the middle of the day. Also, how is Lila this gorgeous even with a face smeared with yogurt?!

The big kids are officially babysitting for us! On my birthday, my mom took me shopping and to lunch. Chase and Hudson watched the littles for three hours and did great! I’m loving the freedom! We haven’t left them to babysit after bedtime yet, but during the day they can handle it for a few hours.

Davis graduated from Upstart! I do love this program. Even though Davis didn’t love doing it most of the time, it really did teach him a lot! He’ll be going into kindergarten knowing all his sounds and letters and is beginning to read! 

Davis has been having “nightmares” (I’m not sure if he really is, or if he just wakes up and wants to join us). He used to climb into our bed but we’ve settled pretty well into a bed on the floor. In fact, now I set a blanket and pillow on the floor next to me and most nights he ends up there. 

Another Saturday swim night where we had so much fun as a family, and only took pictures of the baby girls. These girls love to “play rocks” which mostly means climbing up and down the stairs and collecting tiny rocks along the way. 

We had a free night in a Marriott hotel expiring at the end of the month. So we made the last minute decision for Ben and the boys to go on a little getaway! Davis especially was so stoked, that kid LOVES a hotel! Ben was able to leave work early on a Tuesday and took the boys to the planetarium, out to dinner, swimming at the hotel pool and then watched a Transformers movie in the hotel. In the morning they stopped at the best donut place for breakfast before heading back home. I’m glad he got the chance to do this with the boys. They loved their little boys night! (Lila and I stayed home, played with Rosie at Nana’s, went out to ice cream and I’m not sure she even knew she got left behind!)

That was June! What a great month!