Right Around the Corner

Spring is right around the corner! The snow is almost gone and soon there will be new buds on the trees, flowers creeping up, and the world around us will get a whole lot greener. We are longing for those carefree days of less clothes and running around barefoot, feeling the grass between your toes.

Soon folks, soon!

One Last Outing

A couple of weeks ago, the kids and I spent a great day at the beach with my sister and her boys. I knew it was probably our last chance to enjoy the warm beach-like weather. We packed lunches, drinks, snacks, and headed out.

 Noah was quite content to spend most of the time sitting at the picnic table or in the wagon with his snacks. He barely touched the water but still had a great time off on his own watching everyone else.

Older cousin teasing Alena with some seaweed.

Did anyone else take one last chance to enjoy summer?

Dog Days of Summer

With summer winding down and the weather turning fast, excuse me while I flood you with posts from our final beach weather days. We've been so busy playing outside while we can, getting into home schooling (more on that in another post), and thoroughly enjoying our time together that I had put a hold on blogging.

This was from back in August when the kids and I headed to Lake Erie, or the "sea" as the kids called it. Can you tell they're Arizona born and bred?



A little nurse and nap time.

Summertime

and the living is easy... Hah! Not when you're a mother of three kids out of school for the summer. With the high heat and humidity, park days have been replaced with trips to the splash pad and beach. This was Noah's first time at the water park/splash pad and I wasn't sure how he would do. But he LOVED it! He was the youngest and smallest one but he ran around just like the big kids.

With lakes aplenty around here, finding a beach isn't hard. We hit up a local beach on a particularly hot and sticky day. The sand was gorgeous and perfect for playing in but the water, not so much. It was warm but unfortunately very dirty and we didn't go in over our knees. The beach was empty and Noah didn't seem to notice the cleanliness of the water. The boy loved that he could wade up and down the whole thing in and out of the water.

And heaven help me, I tried getting a cute pic of the kids. Let me give you a sampling of the copious amounts of photos it took to get one good picture. There *may* have been some threats hissed along the lines of "You're going to sit there and smile until I get a good shot!"

Ah, that's better. :)