Catching up...

Happy September!  Wait, summer's over?!  How the heck did that happen?  Man I love summer, but I also love me some fall.  Cool nights, cozy sweaters, yummy soups, Grey's Anatomy.  Yeah fall's good stuff.  

I thought I'd take a minute to catch up here on the blog so, here's a bit of our August in pictures.  It was a fun filled month!  

Boys finished their library reading logs so, they got to pick out a free book...yay!  

Glow sticks and smores...perfect.

I fell in love with freezer cooking a few weeks ago.  I cannot believe I've never done it before.  Best idea ever!  

Oh my gosh, so remember those boys Vann and Chayce met while camping?  Well the older one, Bode, and Vann became pen pals!  I love this so much.  They've written each other 3 letters each so far.  Vann gets so excited to check the mail when he thinks a new one is on its way.  What I love about this the most is that it happened so organically...there was no planning on my part involved.  They made it happen and I hope they continue to be pen pals for a long time. 

A walk to the park so this little cutie can swing.  

Chayce and Mia are best buds :)

Just a boy and his sticks.  Love him!

My Chaycers and I.  He's such a goof!

My Sweets

Trampoline fun!

This little monkey could swing all day long!  He learned how to pump his legs so he literally swings for hours.  

And this one fell in love with sewing!  Out of the blue he asked me to teach him.  Well I don't sew so, I bought him a book and we hit up Hobby Lobby.  I plan to do another post about all the amazing things he's created so far!

Monkey in the middle at the pool.  

So the other night Ash got a mosquito bite above his eye on his forehead.  Well the next morning the poor thing couldn't even open his eye because it had swelled up so much.  Dumb mosquitos.  The left pic is right after he woke up...the right is a few hours later.
After some googling I decided to use fresh aloe to heal it up.  It took a few hours, but it worked and he could see again!  And it took the whole day for the swelling to completely go away, but I was so happy to find a natural way to help my Sweets.  

Hope you have a wonderful first day of September!  I'll be back soon with some of our schooling adventures this week :)

Trampoline Fun

To celebrate Ash's birthday we invited a few friends and I took them to Rockin' Jump, a fun trampoline place.  We were super happy to discover they also have rock climbing as well.  They all had a ton of fun jumping and climbing!

A great bunch of kiddos are ready to have some fun!

Their bright green and orange socks.

I just love the way Ash jumps.  He uses his arms and it's totally adorable!  Vann is the only one not in this video.  Not sure where he was, probably checking out the rest of the trampoline areas. 

Smile Ash!  My cute birthday boy :)

Kenny and Vann battled it out...Kenny won :)  They had a blast and were cracking up the whole time!

Kayla and Mia battled also :)

Vann rock climbing. 

One of the many times he reached the top!  

Vann's making up a game to
play while they jump in the
foam blocks.  I love how
Ash is watching him.

Chaycers jumping!

These guys all get along so well.  Such a fun group of kids!  

A quick video of Ash and Chayce jumping.  I love how they do the exact same thing :)

Chaycers rock climbing.

He reached the top a few times too!

Chayce, Kayla, Kenny and Vann all on the wall at the same time!

One more video of the kiddos jumping.  Chayce's fav thing to do was run, jump and slide!  Vann isn't in this one either...he loved the rock climbing so kept going back to that every chance he got.  He also loved running, jumping and sliding though!

It was a really great time!  Lots of jumping and everyone rock climbed multiple times except for little Ash.  He wanted to, but was too small.  The belt fell right off of him.  Kind of a bummer, but we decided we'll have to go back when he's bigger so he can do it.  He was cool with that :)  Not that I want him bigger any time soon.  He can take his time growing up, I'm in no rush.  Love my sweet little munchkin!  Happy 3rd birthday Ash!!