Summer Fun!

Isaac's been playing T-ball this summer, and having a blast with all his buddies! Here's his first game:

His team is warming up for their first game!

Gotta run fast for that ball, then throw it to first!

Ready position...

Team picture day is next week, but the coaches will both be gone and they each have a kid on the team, so we did some less formal pictures this week - I love the way they turned out. You can tell the personality of each kid in this picture.

We've also had fun with visitors as well. Jesse parents came out for a visit, unfortunately the pictures are all on the 'upstairs' computer, and I'm too lazy to go get them right now. We had fun seeing Nauvoo and visiting some church history sites, then Jesse and his dad went to a HAM Radio fest in Ohio.

A few weeks later my sister and her three boys came to visit and we made a trip to the zoo, the Indy 500, and did LOTS of swimming. We all loved having them here, and my kids especially enjoyed their cousins company.

Here's a few pictures at the zoo:

All the cousins looking at the polar bear, sleeping in the hot sun.

My little monkeys, climbing up the 'big rock' outside the monkey cage.

A few weeks later, my parents made a trip out to see us as well. We took them to the zoo as well and it ended up being a really hot week, so we tried to find some indoor things to do, that weren't too exhausting for all of us. Here we are resting in one of the indoor exhibits at the zoo (gotta love Keltsy's face in this one)!

And another with the kids getting ready to feed the giraffe:

And again climbing the big rock outside the monkey cage (I just thought this was a cute picture):

All in all, it's been a great summer!

I've had a miserable head cold for the last three weeks, but am FINALLY getting over that and ready to get my house back in order from the 'mom's sick and not doing it today' attitude I've been having.

Isaac is looking forward to starting Kindergarten in a few weeks, we start the middle of August here. We should be finding out who his teacher is within the next week or so. It'll be fun with just me and Keltsy for half the day during the week, at least until the baby comes. I think they could use a break from each other, although they do love each other, they love to bug each other as well. I could see a big difference in their relationship when preschool was over and they were didn't get that little break during the day. It'll be nice to have my routine back as well.

I'm always sad to see the remnants of summer pass, the fireflies, the fireworks, swimming, summer reading at the library, but I look forward to the changes that come in the fall...look at me, it's still July and I'm already missing summer!