A fun Father's Day at the pool

We all went to the pool yesterday for Father's Day. It was a VERY hot day and it felt good to cool off in the pool, the kids had a blast! Maddie just LOVES the pool. We usually go a couple times a week and we also went Friday after Andy got home from work. Afterwards I washed and dried all of our towels and bathing suits and they were folded on the couch. Yesterday Maddie wanted to go to the pool so bad that she got everyones bathing suits off the couch and started walking around handing them out to everyone saying "poo" (pool). Our little activities coordinator:)

School's Out!

Brendan's last day of school was last Friday so he's done for the summer. In the fall he will start 4th grade, wow! I took my traditional last day of school photo of him to compare to the first day of school photo. On Tuesday they had a surprise luau party for his class and Andy, Maddie & I all went. It was a lot of fun. Maddie had fun partying with all of the third graders. Dylan will continue his homeschooling through the summer, with me doing a couple hours with him in the morning and his other teachers taking over from 10-4 each weekday. We will most likely continue with homeschooling him for next school year too. He is doing SO well and he proves to us each and every day what a smart boy he is:)

We don't have much planned for the summer. Andy will be off for vacation again the week of July 4th and we'll probably just stay around here. I'm sure we will be making lots of trips to the beach and to our pool to to stay cool this summer.

A Day At The Zoo

Last Friday we did a family trip to Columbia's Riverbanks Zoo. Andy was off on vacation for the week and Dylan has been doing a zoo unit w/school, so we decided to do a "field trip" and made a trip up to Columbia. It was not very busy because school wasn't out yet, which was nice, but it was a very hot day. The kids (and us) all had a great time seeing all the animals. Dylan's favorite animal was the elephant, Brendan liked the lemurs, and I think Maddie was just amazed at seeing ALL of the animals, she did great. We all (even Maddie) got to feed Chrissy the giraffe, which was a neat experience. We put some lettuce in our hands and held it out flat and she came up ever so gently and took it with her lips and tongue, the prickly hair from her lip tickled. After several hours we were all hot and the kids were getting tired so we hopped back in the car and headed home. It was a great day!