Summer Phone Pics

In sharp contrast to my last post, I have a bunch of pictures on my phone I need to put up, documenting much of our everyday life this summer. Brace yourselves, there are a lot...

 I kind of started Eli on piano. We started right before school started, and since it's been very sporadic. I'm hoping to start back up with some more regularity in the near future.

 Anna thinks she needs to wear a helmet too.

 One hot summer day. We may not officially have our own yard, but this grassy space is right outside our front door and no one else ever uses it, so I brought out the hose and a big bin and we had some fun.

 Contrary to what this picture suggest, she had a blast. She's also a drama queen and this was totally fake angst.

 Jeremy and I ran a 5k!

 It was my first time ever doing a real race, and it was different for sure. It didn't go as well as I had hoped (the course started off going up like 50 stairs! Cruel!!) but it was a good experience! Thank you to Jeremy for agreeing to do it with me!

 Coming into the finish line by the river.

We did it!

 My friend Janae watched the kids the morning we did it, and after we got back, Jeremy and I took our two oldest and her two oldest to the Big Truck Show at the park. Janae stayed home with Anna and Kenzie.

 Sometime in August, all the kids got sick with Hand, Foot, and Mouth. It was pretty mild luckily, but we did have a day where everyone was miserable at the same time so I let them go brain-dead watching a movie for awhile.

 If we walk to take Eli to school, we go through the park, so we often stop by on our way home!

 Connor with all his gear. :)

 Our neighborhood picnic!

 There's a fire station just around the corner from our house, in our neighborhood, so the firemen came too! So fun!

 Anna was making eyes at one of the firemen.

 One of our summer storms headed our way...

 Two minutes later it was on top of us as we ran into the house and barely missed the rain and thunder!

 This was the next day at the park. I thought the clouds were so beautiful!

 Ohhh insanity! I bought a bushel of tomatoes and canned every last one of them! It was over 50 pounds. Eli helped me peel about 7 pounds or so, other than that I did it all myself. I'm crazy.

 Just so you get an idea, here is the basket appearing to be almost empty. I counted out how many tomatoes were in there at that point - 73. So I think it's safe to say I did at least 500 tomatoes.

 Don't worry I got more than this! I got 14 quarts of crushed tomatoes and 13 pints of diced tomatoes. That should last us awhile! Jeremy feels slighted that he didn't get to do any, so he's pushing for peaches and applesauce. We'll see what happens...

 So Jeremy was out of town one night this week, and of course the day he was gone, the boys both crashed badly on their bikes. Poor Eli was in bad shape. He fell on his face pretty much and had a bad gash on his chin, then he must have bit his tongue and lip because they were all bloody, along with his forehead and knees. Connor just scraped up one knee luckily, but of course we were at the park, so we had to hobble all the way back home. Whew!

This was this morning, looking quite a bit better. Whew! I'm all caught up now! I put up four other posts today if you missed them. Thanks for looking!