Summer, Day 9

Today we got together with my sister in law and her two sons and visited Pirate Park. It's just a small little park behind a shopping district, but it's clean and cute. The kids all had a good time and we will definitely go back again soon.

Summer, Day 8

During the summer I tend to try to make sure that the people who live in my house try new things. If I can get a benefit, then all the better. Ryan (nephew from Texas) is with us again this summer. Both he and Randy are more than old enough to have some cooking skills so I declared that they would each be cooking dinner once a week. Ryan started us out with spaghetti. It was pretty good.

Summer, Day 7

I think that it really feels like summer for the kids now; we finally have water in our pool. Last year Richard decided that we needed to upgrade from the regular kiddie pools to a fairly good sized above ground pool. Not as nice as the pool I grew up with, but it's definitely better than nothing. Lastiojiioylo year it ended up with some holes in the bottom and by the end of the summer it was losing water at a slow but steady rate. I wanted to patch the holes before filling it this year and hopefully cut down on our water bill. There were a lot more holes than I realized. A lot more. Most of then were small and probably wouldn't have been that big of a deal but there were a lot of holes. A lot. It took me three days, a couple hours a day, to get it all done and Josh was not patient. It's all done now and we've got water in it. I still need to get the chemical levels just right, but otherwise we should have another fun summer.

Summer, Day 6

Today we went to the movies and saw "Brave" and then played on the playground at the shopping center. I liked the movie. I think the kids liked the movie although it's really hard to tell with Rosie.

Summer, Day 5

No picture today; you really wouldn't want to see it. It started shortly before 5 am when Nathan woke up, complaining of a stomach ache. This was soon followed by him throwing up and continued for the next five or six hours. I didn't even try to go back to sleep as I hate being woken up by a child puking up their guts. We stayed home from church. It was a weird day.

Summer, Day 4

Josh has been bugging us to set up the pool for weeks now and we finally started yesterday. Unfortunately there were a few holes in the bottom that need to be patched. He was really upset until he and Nathan started making a nest out there. They had wanted to sleep out there but got scared by themselves. We'll have to try again when Richard gets home. Camping out in the back yard isn't his favorite thing but he'll probably do it once for his boys.

Summer, Day 3

Over spring break, instead of going on vacation, Richard decided we should get passes to Knott's Berry Farm. He and the kids used them just about every day during the break (I still had work) but we have been too busy to use them very much since. He got the level of passes that also gets us into the water park. It's open only half the year so we hadn't used those passed yet either. Until the today. We only stayed a little over 2 hours and I didn't get any pictures inside, but we did have a great time. My kids are going to have great tans by the end of the summer.