Those Lazy Days of Summer

Our Summer has been lazy, yet busy. I'm seriously taking advantage of the fact that there's no school by sleeping in until 8:30am. Ya, 8:30am! And the dishes rarely get done and the house is always a mess. But it's ok and I know it's just temporary. Right? At least I hope so. I have been trying to finish up the clothes room and laundry. It's taking me forever and that pile of laundry in the hall is calling me... but the voice sounds more like Jason's voice. I'll get her done eventually! I guess I don't feel a whole lot of motivation cause my friends that used to motivate me don't live here anymore. That's right... another friend of ours moved. :-( The Andersons! They moved here right after us and they are military, so their 4 years is up and they're off to their next adventure in Arkansas! Marinda was one of the lady's that we could carpool with one another and we always had each other's back if we couldn't get one of the kids somewhere or couldn't pick them up. It was sooo nice! We could just sit forever and talk too and she liked playing games! Also, she is one of the cleanest women I've ever met, but was very realistic about it being hard to keep up on it. She always motivated me to get things done around here. She is an awesome friend and one I will truly miss! Her husband and 4 boys were awesome too! We will miss them! Here they are...

BTW... I think this will make like 33 families that have left our ward since we've moved here. Crazy huh? Not much else is going on. Going to the park every Wednesday. We went up to Loafer Creek one Saturday just randomly. We were supposed to go to the beach with some friends, but they were too tired to go, so we went to Loafer Creek by ourselves. Ya, we seem to do a lot by ourselves! But anyway, Loafer Creek was actually nice. The water was way high. We found a good spot in the shade and not too far from the water. The kids had so much fun! Isaiah got his first bad sunburn... because he wouldn't get out of the water for me to reapply sunscreen. He definitely learned and will never do that again. It was just a nice day at the lake. One that we enjoyed. I'll have to figure out how to put the pics from my phone onto the computer. Junior Giants is starting now. I love YMCA sports! THey're perfect for beginner kids and young kids. It's very very non-competitive and low key. They teach you the fundamentals of the sport without major pressure. Sometimes I think if I would've actually learned how to play the sport first without feeling the pressure of my peers and lame parents.... I might've actually done a lot better. Now I'm expecting them to learn how to play and then if they like the sports, I'll put them in the leagues that last longer than 6-8 weeks. I have the 3 older kids doing it. It'll be fun and busy! Jason is doing ok. He's been building this patio cover for the last few months. Just a little here and there around his work schedule. He's not a builder or contractor by all means, so he's learning while he's building it and I'm really proud of him. I never knew it would be so difficult to build something like that. A lot really goes into building things. It's nothing like the legos we used to build with. haha! But, unfortunately he's at a cross roads with it and has to do the ceiling, but can't do it by himself. And his dad could come and help, but his schedule doesn't meet up with Jasons. So it doesn't look like it'll get done for awhile, which is fine. Jason's new work schedule is going to be 6-7 day weeks for 10-12 hours a shift. So we won't see him probably until we leave for our trip to Utah which is in another month. And then after that, we won't see him a whole lot until I have the baby in Nov. I'm not complaining... so thankful for his job. I just get tired and I do miss him. And the kids do too. So we'll see what happens... the contractor might cancel half of the days so maybe he won't be working 7 days a week. We'll see. Here's some pics of the patio cover though..