Nine Busy Summer Days

Last week was a super busy week. We did something EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!  Starting on Sunday of last week, we went to church, had lunch at home, napped and then met up with the Thompson's at Splash Kingdom.  These kids had a blast!

 The Thompson's on the Lazy River

Todd took Trent on the Lazy River (Taelyn didn't want to go)

Taelyn chose to hang out with Mommy

They enjoyed walking on the splash pad

Todd is such a big kid, he was excited when the bucket dumped all the water on him and the kids enjoyed watching from a safe distance

Leaving the park, Taelyn and Trent were holding hands.  I love catching sweet moments like this

Monday: We went to Costco, hung out at my mom's house, came home for naps and when the kids woke up, we went to Victoria Gardens to have dinner with Marco at Lucille's.  Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of our day. 

Tuesday:  We went to the Beaumont Library for a FREE children's carnival.  It was super fun for the kids.  There was a magic show, a hula hooping station

A Play-Doh station 

A table full of Mr. Potato Heads to play with, a bubble making station, snacks, face painting and many other games.  The kids had a great time going from station to station and playing.  We came home for naps and while the kids were napping I started making cookies.  Trent woke up to the smell and came downstairs to join me.  This is what he was doing:

I swear, I spend most of my day trying to keep him from harming himself.  He climbs on EVERYTHING!

I made the cookies to take to the Redlands Bowl to watch The Sound of Music. Our friends and the Redlands Christian Center were ushers and invited us to have dinner and hang out.  Taelyn was being silly with the donation buckets

Of course, Trent does everything his Ate Taelyn does

Silly girls, bucket heads

All of the kids after dinner

Wednesday: We went to Yucaipa Regional Park

My little water Tunk

Taelyn was getting brave and going in to about her neck!  I snapped this picture as she was walking out

We met up with our friends Jessica and her kids (laying in the sand in the background) and Anthony and his daughter Mila (pictured) Carly and Braxdon were with us also, but for some reason, I don't have any pictures of them.  :(

These were the only pictures I took all day, I must have been out of it. 

Thursday: I met up with my friend Lea and her daughter Brooklyn at Story Time at Smiley Library and then we went to Chick-Fil-A and had lunch while the kids played in the play area.  Taelyn traded in her book for some ice cream, as you can see, she was loving it!

After nap time, I busted out the baking soda, vinegar, food coloring and eyedroppers.  This was Trent's first time playing with this and he made a mess, but he loved! This is such a fun and time consuming activity.  The kids enjoyed it, they are working on their motor skills (working the eyedropper) learning colors and learning about the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar.  Of course that is for when they are much older, but I did try to explain how when you put two chemicals together to get a reaction.  They didn't care at all, they just loved the fizz. 

Friday: We didn't go anywhere on this day, but we had lots of visitors.  The kids played outside with Geoffrey in the morning while we waited for Kaleb, our Godson and and his baby sister Kendall. 

My nieces, Maila, Maya, Leah and nephew Allan also came over.  I had SEVEN kids total from 10am-4pm.  The kids all played great together.  The girls played "Dress Up"

Kendall was so cute as Princess Aurora

When everyone left,  I went to Crossfit Covert to get my WOD on.  When we got home, the kids played outside and by bedtime, I was spent!

Saturday: We woke up super early and went back to Crossfit.  After, we ran home so I could shower and get dressed.  We stopped at my mom's house so she could hang out with the kids for a little while.  After we left my mom's house, we went to our friend, Allison's, 8th birthday Luau. 

Taelyn loved the flower head band

Trent has a thing with Hula Hoops

Watching Allison blow out the candles

Trent was playing with the pool toys

After the party, we went home to meet up with Daddy so we could go to dinner with the Thompson's.  We went to Claim Jumpers and after, the kids played outside until it got dark. 

Sunday: We went to church in the morning, then after church we went straight to Loma Linda to visit my sweet Sorority Sister Tekura.  This woman is such a true testimony!  While pregnant, she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and she underwent Chemotherapy, had surgery to have lymph nodes removed on July 20, on July 30, she was told she was cancer free!! Then just four days later, she had an emergency c-section and Lacey Lin is here and she is PERFECT!!! I am just in awe at how she was able to get through this and have such a positive outlook, according to her, it was nothing but GOD, so all I have to say to that is PRAISE HIM!!! 

 Beautiful Lacey

 After the hospital, we ran to Costco for a few things.  I met up with Carly to get a pedicure while Todd took the kids home to nap.  After naps, we met the Sanders Family at Victoria Gardens and had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. 

 Trent and his Shenanigans, when we were wrapping up dinner, Todd took him out of his high chair and he disappeared! We all were frantically looking around for him and we heard a faint little giggle, we look over about 10 feet away and this little boy was in the WINDOW!  He is out of control, I swear, I have no idea where he came from! He is always up to something.  He thought it was hilarious that we were having a heart attack looking for him. 

Monday: I woke up and went to Crossfit.  Todd got the kids dressed and ready while I was gone.  They are currently at the movies watching the Smurfs, while I am sitting here writing this blog and watching The Real.  Its a silly day time talk show, but I really enjoy it.  Sorry for this beast of a blog post, but I just can't believe how much we have done in nine days.  I try and stay busy, but I think a day where we do absolutely NOTHING is in our near future, just not tomorrow, I plan on doing the $1 movie at Krikorian and getting my hair done, I'm really excited about my hair appointment.  Summer will be over as soon as I know it, so I want to remember all of the fun things I do with the kids.