More summertime fun

The summer days are flying by. I can hardly keep up with everything happening. Here are just some of the pictures I have remembered to take: 

The kids and their friends visited a fish hatchery. They loved seeing and feeding the fish

Here is a group shot of everyone who went with us

We have been going to lots of different parks

Our birdhouse became home to a wasp and the kids had fun watching the wasp slowly build his nest. 

But then the nest got too big for our comfort. We finally had to get some spray and kill the nest

The kids are making up lots of fun games to do at home. But at the same time our house is a constant disaster. Here is a picture right after I picked up the downstairs area and went upstairs to do laundry. While I was upstairs the kids had pulled out the tent and the tunnel and all the blankets and several boxes and made themselves a fort. 

To avoid the constant cleaning and messes, we try to stay out of the house as much as possible. Kid have had all sorts of fun experiences. Here they are at a fun water day hosted by Lily's preschool. Unfortunately it was a cold day and the kids were freezing. But they still had fun.

Luke's work had their company party. If you remember my post about the company party last year, then you would remember that Jack waited in line for over an hour for this bungee jumping ride and right when he got to the front of the line, they closed down the ride. So this year, the first thing they did was to get in line for this line.





After the ride they were excited to learn that they got chick-fil-a for dinner.


But then we spotted the chick-fil-a cow and Josie lost it. She was absolutely terrified and would not stop screaming. Even when the cow was gone she wouldn't calm down. Not even the bounce houses could help bring her out of her terror


The other kids enjoyed the bounce houses though:



Lily was so excited to see her friend Cassie again.


As soon as Jack learned that they were giving away prizes at the Bingo table he made himself comfortable. He sat and played bingo for a long time and even one twice. He won some balls and he also won Luke a preferred parking spot for the month of July.


Before the party was over, we were able to take one ride on the train and Josie finally seemed to come out of her terror and enjoy the ride

Speaking of Josie's fear of people in animal costumes...she is also afraid of most men with facial hair. There is one guy in particular that works at Sprouts bagging groceries. We were there shopping last week and we just so happened to go through the checkout where he was the bagger. By the time Josie noticed him, we had already emptied our cart and the cashier was already scanning our items. So I couldn't change lanes. But Josie started screaming. And screaming. She was inconsolable. And I had a lot of groceries so she was screaming for a long time. I couldn't get her to stop. The poor guy didn't know what to do. He even tried to draw her a picture to show he was nice, but Josie ripped in half and kept screaming. Now I have to drive 20 minutes out of my way to go to the other Sprouts. I hope Josie grows out of this soon!

And here is a picture of the little spitfire painting her nails. She is as cute as she is messy.