Summer

I'm so glad it's summer.  Winter is still my favorite season but more and more I'm appreciating the laid back pace of summer.  Easy light meals, swimming, less germs floating around...  

We finished our school work the first two weeks of May.  Obviously we went to the beach for a week and then returned to finish AWANA then start a week of vacation Bible school at our church.  Once again I was one of the craft coordinators so I got to spend the entire week making crafts with all the kids.  It was so much fun.  I love working with kids.

After vbs was over we took about a week to recover from the early mornings (we're obviously not morning people around here!)  Plus I needed to get caught up on cleaning.  Our house was a disaster.  We got signed up for summer reading at our local library - even little Amos gets to join in the fun.  He gets a kick out of putting the stickers on his chart.  

We've been:

•  swimming - one set of friends has a house on the lake with a pontoon, etc and the other friend has an in-ground pool.  What a blessing to us!
• spending a lot of time at my parents house just hanging out and eating all of their snacks - like the Little Debbie cakes that I won't buy.  
• reading so we can turn in our summer reading charts and get our prizes.
• working on fixing things around the house so we can sale it and move into a bigger house.  The Clarks have officially outgrown their house!  Seriously, we kind of outgrew it after Sam but we've made it work :-)

Now let me get moving so we can make some Snickerdoodles before Daddy comes home!

Swimming at Ms. Joyce's house with all of her grand kids!

 Amos is exhausted after swimming all morning.

 But he ends up playing with Connor instead of napping.

 An afternoon at the fish hatchery with my sister.

 Hannah & Sammy were in Sparks with Miss Diann -AWANA.

 And Amos was in the nursery with Ms. Betty again.

 Just a random cute shot of Spiderman and Batgirl on the trampoline.