Summer

Man. It's been forever since I sat down at my computer. These days summer is keeping us busy with it's crazy fun flexibility. We're busy from the minute we wake until the minute our heads hit our pillows, which is far too late for my taste. We need to get to bed earlier or I'll never survive the next two and a half months! I think for me, finally not working at the school is providing me with the hours I always wished I'd had access to for so many necessary projects and fun activities, that I'm on overdrive mode. Hopefully it'll settle down. But even if it doesn't, the fun memories are worth the exhaustion. So instead of spending down time on the internet, these days we hop on the internet real quick to see what the weather is going to be for the day, and then don't touch it again until the next morning. I am sooo behind on the internet to-do list. Emails I have yet to answer, research that I need to do, college classes to register for, blogs to read, blog posts to journal, etc etc. But I thought I'd throw a couple of quick pics on of what we did today. We started the day by taking the first step into our healthier future. Last night some of my girlfriends and I went out shopping for green smoothie/drink produce and came back to our house for a one on one drink-making course. It was fantastic. This morning I decided it was time to start a new morning drink ritual. I know it'll take some getting used to for some of the girls. But I am so excited for the health benefits and the energy for all of us that I know will come as a result of getting all those healthy greens into our systems. Ane is so funny with it...she says "nummy, yummy" the whole time she's drinking it, and asks for seconds. Some of the girls just gulped it all down and didn't love it, but didn't mind it either. And then we had one little girlie, who just struggled with even trying it. I'm not worried because she does that with EVERYTHING. We'll all be so blessed, I'm convinced, as we try so hard to take care of these precious bodies that God has blessed us with.



We then scooted over to a baptism of one of our precious buddies, and the girls sang a duet as a group. Good grief, are those girlies amazing. I was so proud of them. I never get nervous playing the piano, but as I sat down to play for them my back was to them and couldn't see all six of them up there singing, my hands started to shake and I realized that I was nervous FOR them. But it was completely unwarranted. They sang like little angels. And yes, I'm a little biased, but they still sounded like angels! We jetted from there to catch the second half of Eli's tball game, dropping Lose off at a birthday party on the way, and then rushed back over to the baptism luncheon. From there we came home for naps and laundry (for me, anyway!). The four big girlies took that time to decorate their bikes. Auntie Katie had told the girls that her kiddos were going to ride in the bike ride before the parade for Orem Summerfest, and asked the girls if they wanted to decorate their bikes and ride with them. Good grief. You should have seen these girls. They took one day to map out their plan, complete with sketches and write ups. Then they took one day to start tracing stencils, cutting out, and decorating the stencils. The final day was today, finishing of the prep work and finally breaking out the duct tape to make sure it all didn't blow off as their bikes rode in the back of Uncle Matt's truck. Several of them were convinced that they also needed to decorate themselves, and had full costumes prepared. We were able to compromise and some decided to go with colorful socks instead. Line was bummed because she couldn't find a match to the one funky sock she could find, but was thrilled when she realized Addie didn't wear funky socks either.










Although I was in the worst of moods at the beginning of the festivities (I hate parades and all that it involves...parking, crowds, finding seats, and the panic associated with all three of those things, not to mention dirty feet and sticky hands. I have issues people, I already know that) it turned out to be the best night. These three stinkers are so funny...


And as the parade progressed these two didn't want to sit in chairs. No, of course not. I just hauled the chairs along with me for the heck of it. Instead, one wanted to sit in front of me in my chair, and one wanted to sit in back of me, in the same chair. It was...lovely. Although I was a bit oversensitized between the two of them, their sweet young selves smelled delicious and scrumptious. I was close enough to know. And their little chubby fingers and cheeks were right within my reach.

It was a great night. Thanks Brousseaus for telling us about the sweet seats. :) And thanks to the other Brousseaus for providing the seats AND the parking, completely eliminating two of my parade pet peeves. Gooooo, Summer!