Summer Vacation Week 1

Let's see if I can make it all the way through the summer keeping the blog up to date this year.  :-)  Emma's last day of school was Thursday, June 3rd and Jacob's was Friday, June 4th.  Last week was our first full week of summer vacation and we stayed busy.  It was also Sean's first week on his new schedule which is Monday - Friday 7:30am-4:00pm.  He has never been on a "normal' schedule since we have been married.  I am really looking forward to having him home every evening for dinner but more having him home every Saturday also. 

On Monday and Wednesday Emma had her last two gymnastics classes.  She really enjoyed her class.  She is trying to decide if she wants to do a dance class or be a cheer leader in the fall.  She loves anything that is girly.  I am not sure where she got that from.  On Tuesday we had a very busy day.  In the morning we meet some friends at the park.  It is a new park for my kids, which is always nice, and there are never any other kids there, except when we invite our friends to join us.  Jacob is going to continue to take piano lessons over the summer.  His wonderful teacher has a pool at her house and told us to plan on swimming every Tuesday when he has his lesson, so we did.  Jacob had his piano lesson then we swam until about 4pm.  We came home, just in time to make dinner and get Jacob ready for his baseball game.  He also had a game Saturday and his last one is this coming Wednesday.

We had to have new brakes put on our van so Thursday the kids and I spent the day at home which was a nice break from running around.

We started babysit swapping with two other families so that we can get to the temple monthly.  We took the first turn to have all the kids.  So, Friday night we had 12 kids at our house while their parents went to the temple.  Our kids were very excited to have all of their friends over.  The night went really well.  We played games, watched movies, caught fireflies, played tag and many other fun things.  About 10pm, when things were winding down I told Sean, "I thought that went well."  To which he replied, "Yeah, but I do not want to do it again tomorrow."  It was a late night but the kids made some great memories.

Saturday was going to yard sales and working the baseball concession stand for mommy, yard work for daddy and birthday parties and   baseball games for the kids.