Ten on Wednesday

I've been quite the slacker lately with the good ol' blog, so here's a little catch-up on our lives!

1. SCHOOL'S OUT!! Yes, I'm a litte bit excited, mostly because I hate the whole morning routine during school, and am excited to have a break from it. Well, sort of, we still have to be at the pool at 8 am every morning for swim practice.

2. Schools out...and that means one more kid at home all day. You wouldn't think that would change things much, but either it has, or I've just been super grumpy these last few days. I took all four kids to target the other day...holy cow! First of all, it was busy there, because of all the extra kids cause of summer, and second, my kids were slightly hyper making it a kind of exhausting trip to the store.

3. JJ has been teething like crazy! I thought he just had his two top teeth coming in, and come to find out, he had both of them, two more bottom teeth and a molar coming in all at once! He still has another molar and two more top teeth coming in, but he's much happier now than he has been, thats for sure.

4. Summer of Seals officially started this week. I've got myself lined up on a pretty stringent workout schedule, and on mondays, wednesdays and fridays I'm doing two a day workouts. Hey, I have to catch up to all the girls that did it last year and are in great shape still. I've got a long ways to go and I don't want to let my team down. Plus, I REALLY hope I look different by the end of the summer!

5. We had a super fun pool party last friday to celebrate school ending. It was a sunshine & lemonade party, and it was SOOO fun! I'll have more on that soon, but can I just tell you all how lucky I am to have the amazing friends I have? They're awesome women, and they all have the most amazing kids, and we all had a blast playing at the pool!

6. We spent memorial weekend up at the lakehouse, more on that as well, but we had so much fun relaxing and enjoying some time together without any interruptions. Halli got up on the wakeboard with me and Kevin, and she LOVED it! We may have to get a kids wakeboard soon. We cooked yummy food, ate yummy food and enjoyed playing with cousins...couldn't ask for a better weekend than that!

7. I am in the process of planning my sisters baby shower, and a birthday party for Lexie, both within a week of each other. I may need to institutionalized after this...so much to do, and so little time! AHHH! But I am super excited about both of them!

8.  Kevin is busy, busy, busy as usual. He's got a campout this weekend and high adventure is coming up in a couple weeks. Luckily he LOVES those boys and is really excited about going with them. I however and dreading that very long week.

9. Swim team is keeping us busy as usual also. Halli is doing great, and is learning two new strokes this year. She's doing pretty well with them although there's a lot of fine tuning to do still. The freestyle is still her best stroke though, and she's having a ball with it. I have a hard time knowing just how much to interfere with her coaching. There is a fine line there between coaching and pushing too hard, and I tend be the type to sit back more and let the coaches do all the work. Even when I've had something I think she should work on, I am sometime hesitant to say anything because I don't want her to think I only care about her winning. But it's sometimes hard to just watch without wanting to give pointers every step of the way. She's a great swimmer and I love seeing her do well, and she really does love to get those blue ribbons, so hopefully I'm not doing her too big of a disservice by not saying much. Ahh, the joys of parenting!:) 

10. Peyton is really enjoying her first year of swim team, and this past week she swam across the whole pool without touching the wall, the rope or the floor at all! We are so proud of her, and how well she's improved already this year!