Last Week of Summerrrr!!!!

We tried to live it up as much as possible during our last week of summer! Here are a few fun things we did....

The kids and I went to the fire station with our church playgroup and had a tour. It was so fun! They loved it. Afterward we walked to UDF for some ice cream with our friends.

Have I mentioned how awesome our ward (church congregation) is now?!? We had a boundary change and it pretty much doubled the number of active families we have in our ward, and most of those people are around our age with little kids. It's been SO fun! We have some friends now! Hooray! (Half the kids in this picture weren't in our ward before!)

We also went to a baseball game! Go Cincinnati Reds! The kids and I earned free tickets through our library's Summer Reading Program. Score! We only had to pay for Jeremy...

 

  It was a really fun night. Our tickets were way up in the nose-bleeds, but it gave us a great view. After about five innings, we moved down lower so we could get a close-up experience too. The boys were hoping to catch a foul ball, but no luck.

 It was also very hot. The weather this summer has either been extremely hot/humid or raining (in which case, it's both). So we're pretty much wet anytime we go outside. It's not my favorite...

But we got to see a beautiful sunset from the ballpark!

Good times.

Next up - this little babe cut two teeth! I have to remind her sometimes that I am not a chew toy...ouch.

 We also went to the pool a lot and often had it to ourselves! The day before school started we went twice - once mid morning and once late afternoon. We were the only ones there in the morning, but by the afternoon, I think half the neighborhood was there! Everyone was getting their fix before school starts.

 And the boys started soccer! Eli loved it last year even though his poor team never won a game, but we're hopeful they'll do better this year! Part of the problem was they got rained out of over half their practices and almost half of the games, so they never really had a chance. This week was great soccer weather, so hopefully we can keep that up!

 Connor has been sooo excited to start. His coach thought he must have played before because he was quick to pick everything up so that made him pretty happy. It's not too hard to stand out on his team though, when half the kids were either sitting around or chasing butterflies...hehe. It will be an entertaining season!