Froggy Books and Cowboy Boots

We're still trying to get into a rhythm of what our school day should look like around here! Adelyn is switching from two naps at 10 o'clock and two o'clock to now one nap at 12:30. I like to start school at nine but this year haven't been able to start until she goes down for her nap and it's messing up my stilo!!

I had a few days where i'd gotten all flustered about not being on a good schedule. But this week I decided to just go with the flow and see where that takes me. We were still able to get all of our schoolwork done and have lots of fun in the mean time.

So for now our mornings are full of play time, art projects and crafts, book reading, dress up, walks to the park and dancing. (My kids are major music lovers!)

These Froggy books are some of Andon's favorite "fun" books to read. He has all these and more that I couldn't find when I took the pic.





And little miss is a serious lover of shoes!! I got her these cowboy boots when she was a lot smaller. We've tried them on a few times and now they finally fit!



As soon as she wakes up in the morning she starts saying "shoes".



We're enjoying the weekend with Papa over. Taking it easy and not worrying about a schedule! And come Monday i'll continue to work on getting in the groove of this new school year!

Vacation Recap

I love the weekends, actually we all do around here. Andon loves it so much he calls it vacation.

When we're talking about the upcoming weekend during the week he'll ask what are we going to do on vacation? At first I was a little confused now I know that he doesn't think we're headed off on some vaca, just looking forward to the weekend!

We love it because Daddy is home. Yes, he is working from home now but he's still working during the week. We get all of him on Saturday's and Sunday's.

We love it because we get to relax. The schoolwork is out the door and the normal schedule we stick to Monday through Friday go with it.



We love it because of Sunday dessert night. We don't have dessert around here every night so it's fun to go all out one night of the week.



We love it because if we wanted to we could stay in our p.j's all day. We usually don't but we could. Andon usually stay's in his swimming trunks!

We love it because the meals seem so much better. Maybe that's just me. I pretty much do all the cooking around here and on the weekends we almost always grill something. And guess who man's the grill... Not me! :) MMMMmmmm.. I love grilled food.

I love it for early morning long runs with friends. I love getting up really early (5:30) and going for a long run and getting home just as the rest of my family is getting up! I already feel so accomplished and the day is just getting started.

We love it for night time swims in the pool. As i'm typing this Jared just told Andon to hurry and get his trunks on so they could go for a quick dip!

Here's a quick photo recap from this week's end vacation.

We challenged Andon to read 100 books this summer and he did!! (thanks for the great idea Brit!) I think Jared and I had just as much fun (maybe more!!) as him doing this challenge. At every 10 books we celebrated. The prizes ranged from anything from the dollar stop at Target for 10 books to go to the movies for 40 books any restaurant of your choice for 90 books and the last prize was the big one. We told Andon he could pick out anything from the store! We knew it wouldn't be a flat screen t.v or anything so we felt safe throwing that out there. And here is what he chose... He still loves all these Imaginext toys and I love that he does. He's getting so big and I just want him to stay my little guy forever! :)











Our vaca has come to an end. :)

We are heading into our second week of 2nd grade this week. Last week was spent trying to figure out our schedule with Adelyn being older now and SO busy. And waiting on some curriculum to still be shipped to us. So here's to hoping that the coming week goes a bit more smooth and organized!

Our Week in iPhone Pics

I just haven't had it in me lately to pull out my camera every time one of my kids is doing something photo worthy. Sometimes I feel like I am missing out on what's going on when I am so pre-occupied with taking pictures. But don't get me wrong I love taking pics of my kids. So it's been easy just pulling my phone out whenever I feel like snapping a quick photo here and there. Here's some fun ones from the past week.

There's a lot of reading going on around here this summer and everyone's benefiting. Adelyn loves sitting in her chair listening to Andon's stories.



A light saber and a bottle. What more could a girl ask for?



Mama's new hair color. Had to get rid of those grey's!



We had fun making cupcakes and celebrating Andon's friend Jakob's 7th Birthday.





Sleepover night!





Adelyn's favorite shoes! Seriously, she wants to put them on as soon as she wakes up in the morning.


Her first visit to Chuck E. Cheese and if i'm lucky her last. :) Not 15 minutes after we were there kids came in my the busloads!




Meeting my cousin Heather's new baby, Audrey. Andon wanted to hold her the whole time she was awake but so did I! I thought it was so sweet that he was wanting to love on her. So I gave up some of my baby holding time for him.





It's been a busy few weeks around here. Jared is in the middle of a major job change and we are getting ready to move again. We are daily praying for direction, peace and strength through this time of transition in our life. It has been hard but good if that makes any sense at all. Thanks so much for walking it with us...

Jen