Wow!!! We've been busy!!!!

It's hard to believe the kids have only been out of school for 3 weeks!  We have been so busy!!! I have 2 days before we leave on a road trip to Canada so I thought I better get a post in.  Let me just list a few of the things we have done.

Last day of school

A week of basketball camp (Niko and Lucy)

My Birthday

4th of July

Scout Camp (Niko and Billy)

Lucy's Birthday (slumber party with 7 friends)

Trip over to Bremerton to visit with family

Balloon Release for sweet Paris (check the side bar)

and a

Trip to Moses Lake for some fun and sun!!

It has been crazy but fun. Here are just a few pictures of the 300 I've taken over the last 3 weeks.

Lucy and Ms. Feguson- I love Ms. Ferguson! She has been Lucy's teacher for 2 years now. (Plus she worked with her in 1st grade for art I think) Lucy has blossomed so much in the past few years and I know Ms. Ferguson had a big part in that.  Lucy could have had her next year too but she was accepted into the STEP (gifted) program for our school district and decided to go. (just to show what a great teacher Ms. Ferguson is, out of the entire Auburn School District, 26 third graders get picked to go into the STEP program, based on test scores, and 6 were accepted from her class! I think that is pretty good!) It was a really hard decision for us to leave Hazelwood and Ms. Ferguson but I hope that Lucy will continue to grow and learn thanks to all the love and support she has gotten from Ms. Ferguson in the last 2 years.

Lucy's Birthday Party- We played in the pool and ate pizza and pizookies and just had a jolly-good time.  Because Billy and Niko were at scout camp and Noah went to spend the night at a friends, it was a girls only party!  Brooklyn loved feeling like one of the big girls, she was hilarious.  We did get an unexpected guest though.....

You should have seen these girls, they were actually fighting about who got to hold the frog.  I guess these aren't your typical girly girls!  All the girls were good and they only stayed up 'til 4:30am! We had homemade cinnamon rolls in the morning and sent them home.  It was a lot of fun!

I can't believe my little girl is 9, she is growing up so fast!  I want to just stop time and keep my kids the ages they are now but I know I can't, so I will just try to cherish every moment I can.

And speaking of kids growing up too fast. . . my little boy went to scout camp for the first time!  He turns 12 in ten days and I can't stand it!!! I don't have many pictures from scout camp but I do have this one...

... of the day he got home from camp. He slept for about 5 hours and even walked downstairs in the middle of his nap to get a drink and he doesn't remember it at all.  CRAZY that my baby will be 12!!!

This last weekend, we went over to Moses Lake to get in some fun in the sun and boy did we!! Noah shocked us all by not only getting in the lake, (last year he refused because he was sure there were sharks or alligators) but he was also the first one of my kids to want a "crazy" ride on the tube.  I went with him and we had a lot of fun, he was yelling the whole time and having a blast! AND THEN to top it off, he decided he would try wake-boarding too!  

He did so good!!! He actually got up for a good 10 seconds or so.  Which is good in my book! I have video but it is on my other camera so I will try to post that later.

After Noah was so brave, Lucy decided to go for it too, so her and I went on a crazy tube ride and then she wake boarded too.  She tried to back out at the last moment but we "encouraged" her to try and she did great! She got up on her first try and rode for a long time, now we just need to get her to turn her board.

She rides the whole time like this and just goes back and forth like she's plowing on a snow board.  I'm so proud of both of them and i hope they keep trying.  

Well, like I said it's been a busy 3 weeks, hopefully we will be able to slow down a bit when we get back from Canada.