What's going on...

Carolyn/MIL/Baba came to visit for Spring Break!
We always have so much fun with her!

yes...that is my MIL shoveling snow while I take pics...I was making dinner! 

I love that I have taught my daughter to cook!!  She did this...Beautiful!

That's whats been going on! 
Happy Spring!!!!

Whoa...it's March?

Some days are just boring...
Some days are way too full...

It all becomes such a blur.
Kind of like when I think about the fact that it's already March and it will soon be summer.

I have a love/hate relationship with summer.
I love/hate having my kids home for the entire summer.
I love/hate going to the pool everyday.
I love/hate hearing my kiddos say "I'm so bored!"
I love/hate the heat.
I love/hate hearing all the locusts.
I love/hate all the time to do whatever we want.
But whatever I do, summer will be here in no time.
I think I am going to make this one the best EVER!
That's my goal.  If I spend a little more time planning it now...all will be good.

There will be lots of treks to the snow cone place right around the corner...

And since my kids absolutely love trees, lots of this

Sprinklers...no doubt!

Hanging out with friends...

And I know we will spend lots of time here...

 
We already have some plans set.  Z starts baseball here very soon.  L and Z will be on swim team which will keep up busy daily.  K is planning on doing Summer School.  They offer a really great thing for highschoolers in Webster Groves.  They let you take classes that you would normally take during the school year, during summer so you can get them out of the way.  It's not remedial at all.  K will be taking PE and also Desktop Publishing.  Very cool!  I would have loved getting PE done during summer...no dressing-down into gross clothes during the school day!!
So those things will keep us busy quite busy...I will just make my plans work around that. 

Other than that, we have our annual trek to Kansas to see my bestie and her fam-damily, Colorado to visit my sister and all the friends that we left when we moved and to Wyoming to visit my parents.

It'll be here before we know it!

Yay/Ugh!
Ha!

Just keep swimming...

Last year while living in FL we swam constantly...multiple times a day. 
It was super easy because we lived in a house with a heated pool. 
The kiddos used it daily for 10 of the 12 months we were there.
We loved having that pool!  

The FL pool...big, deep, and lots of fun!

But mostly we just like to swim.
So we finally visited our rec center pool here in MO and it's AWESOME!
It's only 5 minutes from home but it too bad it's not in our back yard...

Not too bad?!  I think this will do!

 

K and Z...look pretty happy to me!

Yup...that's a happy face!

 

Pretty cool pool huh?  I am liking it! 
I think we will be here lots this summer. 
It feels real good to have our feet in a pool once again. 

Maybe this fall we can visit our FL family and put our feet in the Gulf once again.

My kiddos with their cousin!

 
One of the other things I miss about living in FL...the Beach!  Can't wait to be there again!

Underwater fun!!!

When we bought our little digital camera years ago, we thought to buy an underwater case for it.  It has been priceless.  Carl and I and the kids have all enjoyed the amazingly cool pics we have taken.  I highly recommend thinking about it in deciding on your next camera. 

Miss Katia! 

Mr. Zander!

Miss Lilijana (upside down)!

We are going to be in FL for a bit longer so look for more of these to come...so fun!!!  Next we will take it to the beach and see what we see in the big blue ocean.  There is a beach just a few minutes from us that is usually full with sanddollars...could make a great photo.

As you can see, I haven't been sewing too much.  We have just been too busy with a lot of fun.  That's what the summer is for though.  I am missing it though...I will work on my embroidery for the time being.  

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!