Summer Week 5

We got a decent amount of rain this past week. So much so that their track class was even cancelled one day...the kids were so happy. 

We had to find more indoor activities to keep us busy. I didn't get pictures of all the fun places we went, but my mom took the kids jumping one day and I remembered to snap a couple pictures 

We also went to my favorite place to get dessert. This is a grilled s'mores donut (a grilled donut with chocolate, marscapone and graham cracker). I am addicted

 Luke hooked up my new double trailer and I took the girls for a short ride while we had a break in the rain

Friday night we headed to another city campout. This one was much nicer than the last one we went to at the farm. The campout was at a park with a swim beach so we were able to take a paddle boat out.

 The kids had fun, but it was a serious workout for Luke and I. We didn't make it far before we had enough and turned that paddle boat back around

 They provided a dinner of hot dogs and hamburgers

And s'mores

 A selfie with Josie just to prove I was there too

Lily's friend from track and her family came to the campout with us

 They also blew up a huge screen so we could watch a movie

 Here are all the tents set up

 And the kids were able to play at the park while we waited for it to get dark

 This time Lily stayed with Luke and Jack in the tent. Josie and I went and slept at my parents place

 Saturday morning a friend met me at 6am for a 5 mile run and then I headed back to the campsite to see how the night went for Luke. We were worried that Lily would have one of her crying fits (she gets night terrors) but thankfully she did great! Here are the happy campers on Saturday morning

 Josie played in the tent while I packed everything up

Saturday was going to be a busy day, so we had to pack everything up quickly to make it to the track meet at 8am. Jack hates running and really didn't want to go so we decided he would stay with Luke and get some fishing in and I would go with Lily to the track meet.

 It was Lily's first track meet and she did great. She was able to compete in three events. The first was the softball throw

 After every event she got a ribbon

 We met up with three of her friends and it was so cute to see them holding hands as they walked to the different events

 Lily with her track buddies

 Here they are getting ready for the standing long jump

 There she goes

 And the funnest part to watch was the relay

 Lily is an amazingly fast runner:

Here they are after the relay

After the track meet, we met back up with Luke and Jack and we all got to get free slurpies for 7-11 day. Then we headed over to a friends house for their daughters first birthday. Here is Josie with the birthday girl

 After that birthday, we headed out for another birthday at the community pool. By the time we got there Josie was a hot mess from the day and completely exhausted.

 The kids had a blast playing in the pool though

It was an amazing weekend with friends. And it was great to have the sun come back again.