Bridging to brownies

Yesterday My Girl Scout troop had their investiture/bridging ceremony. Well only Paige and Abby showed up so we got all of the goodies and had all the fun. The girls did a cute Flag Ceremony to begin with. I had the word written on paper taped to the side of the pot so the girls had their heads poked into the pot when they said their lines. LOL! Then we went and bridged on the bridge. The girls said, "Twist me turn me show me the elf, I looked in the water and saw...Myself!" It's from the Brownie story. Then we rededicated them into Girl Scout Brownies with the promise. Then we ate yummy food from Pastry Pub. I had such a wonderful time. You can tell on the girls' faces they had fun and were super excited to get their new uniforms. Another special moment was when Abby gave me a Leader pin and Anna thanking me for all I did this year. It meant so much to me. I really love it. Thank you :)

Summer Fun

I love summer! I hate the heat, but I love a lot about summer:

Watermelon
Watermelon and my kids
swimming
camping (we got a new(-ish) trailer)
Gardens
veggies from our garden
canning
dried fruit
vacations
splash pads with kids
summer reading program
corn on the cobb

How'd he get so big?

"SAY CHEESE!"

Word he can say:
PEEZ (please)
down
ouch
no (this week)
moo
cat
neigh (very cute he makes a horse noise with it)
apple
nana (banana)
purple
dada
mama
baba


Will add to that he says a lot more. He is 19 months and so stinkin cute. This week he decided he want to use the potty. I have always had a hard time keeping diapers on him so I am so glad he will go and pee in the toilet and not the floor anymore ;) I am excited to have just the boys home for a few hours so that I can teach them more without the girls coming to interrupt. although I will miss Katie as I did Paige, I know she will do so well in school.

helpin' Dad

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We helped my parents take out some grass and we decided to keep it and put it in the front yard. Well Joey wanted to help. The girls then decided Dad's truck was dirty so they made signs that said "Car Wash" and washed John's truck...cute, right? Well Johnny decides that he want to help too. it was so amazing to me that my kids are finally getting old enough to somewhat help. I think I am stuck just thinking they are too little to do anything worth while. Well they, without knowing it, showed me they need a little more responsibility around the house ;)

Harry Potter and the Pectol kids

This was so funny. The morning after Paige's camp out I look at the kids at the kitchen table and Katie has a lightning bolt on her forehead and they all have skewers. They then continue chasing after each other saying "EXPECTO PATRONUS" (the spell is actually expecto patronum, but they did good) I laughed so hard. This all started because we let them watch the first 3 with us when John and I were watching all the movies before the midnight premier of the last Harry Potter. Gotta love um :)

Paige's campout

It was for Paige to meet and make new friends and two of her friends came. We had loads of fun with the girls (Abby and Vaeh) sleeping over. They started out painting nails and doing make-overs and then we made masks out of paper plates. The two friends weren't into the camp out theme. They wanted to dance to music the whole time. They were scared for half of it. They played in the sprinkler and slip n slide. Then I had John take the TV outside and the girls watched a movie on a blow up mattress as I made hot dogs. We went back in to make homemade lanterns from pop cans (mildly dangerous, but SUPER fun/cute). We waited till dark then lit the candles and went on a walk in the dark. Then it was s'mores time. One of Paige's friends had never made a marshmallow on the fire or had a s'more (WHAT!!???) So we let her have 2 ;) well what a fun camp out it was

4th of July weekend

the kids had fun climbing up this stump with no help. I had fun just relaxing with our family :)