Summer is Here

We are two weeks into summer and so far, its been pretty fun. Our schedule is less hectic, although there has still been tennis camp and summer school dance classes for Alana, but all those made me do was brush everyone's hair which isn't hurting anything. 

I was amazed at the end of the year how much both of the girls had grown. Those dorks are already asking how many days until school starts again. Sadly its only 44. 44 days until I have a kindergartener and a second grader. Yikes.

Alana did really well at tennis camp this year, I noticed a big improvement from last year and I think part of that is that she's older and slightly less uncoordinated. Slightly. She enjoyed it, even if it was already like 90 degrees outside at 9 am.

Witten is determined to spend a lot of his summer without pants. Whatever, less laundry that way.

Before summer officially started the girls (and their cousins but they're not pictured) had a lemonade stand. It was pretty successful, they took advantage of all of the yardsale customers and Alana offered each of them lemonade. She was the only kid who stayed out there the whole time, and she earned $10 for her efforts (the stand total was $20 and she got half because she did most of the work). Of course she spent half of her money on video games at Peter Piper, but whatever.

Maybe the most exciting thing so far this summer for my kids at least because I find it a little annoying is the small pool we set up in our back yard. They would spend all of their time in it if they could, but I prefer the air conditioned indoors so we don't live out there. Either way they have got some decent tans already and its only part way through June.

I'm looking forward to sitting on my couch some more this summer, besides on the weekends when there is an endless stream of birthdays or weddings or movies that David must go see. Other than that, we will be at home in our pajamas, not brushing our hair.

2013: A Sort of Review

I started this post as an all-inclusive no holding back too many pictures to count complete review of all of 2013. But Blogger? It had other plans. It was all I don't think so lady. You're only on February and I already consider this amount of pictures to be completely insane and I FORBID IT. So instead, let's just summarize and include as many pictures as possible. I'll keep it brief. If I can. I've been known to rant. On occasion.

January: Is it totally horrible that I have no idea what we did during this month? I mean, January is so blah. I am pretty sure we were just lost in our routine, hanging out at home, and watching Witten grow. Nothing extraordinary, but still pretty great.

February: I had a few cute little Valentine's, my birthday (boo), and we made kind of a big decision to finally move out of our tiny duplex. There was a zoo day where it was like 70 degrees, and a snow day where it was like 40. Arizona likes to mess with your head like that.

March: We finally closed on our house, right in the middle of spring break, so we got to move (yay!).
I'm pretty sure all that I did that month was pack/unpack. I'm never moving again, especially with a baby. It was not fun, but it was worth it. There was also Easter in that month, I should probably mention that right?

 April: I have no idea what we did, except for the stuff that I took pictures of. According to my pictures, we sat around our house, I started the long process of growing grass in our front yard, and we went to the zoo on a field trip. NONSTOP EXCITEMENT.

May: If only I had a blog or something to help me remember each month's activities....There was Mother's Day, school got out, and we played outside some more. As always, endless amounts of excitement.

June: Alana had swimming lessons, tennis camp, and dance camp. Besides that we stayed home to enjoy our air conditioning, went to the movies a whole bunch of times, and went to the pool. Witten turned one in June, so we partied to celebrate and I had to gradually come to terms with him growing and walking and being a wild monster baby. Its still touch and go.

July: I try to stay home as much as possible during July and August, because it is oppressively hot. We still managed to get out some to go swimming, celebrate 4th of July, and eventually send Alana back to school to start the first grade. 

August: Ava turned 4 and started preschool on the same day, and I tried to avoid outdoor activities (besides inevitable yardwork from the grass that I finally managed to grow!). 

September: Alana started soccer, the weather cooled down to only 90 degrees, football season started, and we settled into our school routine. 

October: Alana turned 7 and somehow convinced me to let her have two parties, there was two weeks off of school for fall break, we went to Disney Princesses on Ice and David turned thirty-something on the same day, Alana lost half of her teeth, I went to the pumpkin patch for field trips two days in a row, and of course Halloween. 

November: School, work, routine, soccer finally ended and Alana was sad about it, we went and saw Frozen, I may have put up our Christmas tree, and Thanksgiving. 

December: Christmas plays, Christmas cookies, Christmas decorations, Anchorman 2 (arguably the best thing in this list) and Christmas. 

If you made it through all that, congratulations, you deserve a medal. But really, you're the lucky one...