I love summertime with the kids home. I know we live in a place that's like an oven, but I still love the summer!

Before it got too toasty, we spent some time outside. The kids love bubbles and asked to do that one Sunday afternoon. It was fun.




We found some cool crafts for Joshua to do this summer. During spring break he started on this 3D perler bead projects. It's a jungle set-up and he has spent a lot of time on it.



While Tylee is napping, Joshua and I will work on these together. Joshua creates the actual projects, and I sift through the two, rather large, bags of various colored beads. I pick out the colors he needs and then put them in separate little bags for later and current use. 



Joshua finished the tree and pond during spring break and has been working on the animals during the summer. So far he has completed an elephant, turtle, alligator, and a monkey. Can you find them all??


The kids love the water! So as soon as it started heating up outside, we headed out back with a fun sprinkler and swimsuits! Notice Tylee's Elmo underwear in the two bottom pictures. She was insistent that she wear those with her swimsuit.




A few months later when it was REALLY hot, we went to the splash pad. Joshua had a growth spurt in between March and May and suddenly his old swim trunks didn't fit anymore. (And neither did half his clothes!) The kids would go to the splash-pad everyday if we would let them!