WITL--Monday

Yesterday was a pretty normal day around here.  Troy went to work; Luke went to school; Hannah and I ran errands and went to the park before lunch and nap time; and the kids played outside after LJ got home.  Then it was dinner and more time outside before bed for the kids.  Troy and I relaxed and watched some TV before going to bed (too late I might add).  

Some observations/gratitude:  

* Hannah has sort of been in a funky mood lately and it's getting better but there was still evidence of it.  She was also very congested--not sure if it's allergies or a cold. 

* LJ was out of bed without my prompting which is always a great thing.  

* I didn't sleep well Sunday night so I was grateful that I had a chance to take a short nap while H was napping.  I know it made the afternoon more enjoyable for all.  

* Luke asked me before bed if we could pray before we turned out his lights--no problem munchkin.  We talked about it for a few minutes and I gathered this: he's been praying by himself at night but he wanted me or Troy to start sitting with him while he says his prayer.  He told me that he wanted to pray silently with me sitting next to him.  I could hear him whispering but couldn't understand anything that he said.  

Favorite moment:

After dinner we all rode our bikes around in the driveway for about a half an hour.  The kids really thought it was great that mom and dad were riding too (even though our tires were sort of flat).

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My morning friend

Easy, simple and fast

Yum

I always like to have this for the week.

It drives me crazy that he twists the tube like this but it's definitely one thing to not stress over.

It's too bright!

Beautiful sunrise on the way to school

One of my least favorite chores

"No pigtails today, Mom."

Selfie

Sam's Club--she loves to hang on to the outside of carts

Wheeeee!

So glad she will sometimes still hold my hand

Love this smile!

Stories before nap time

She was sound asleep when we had to leave to get LJ from school.  I really hate waking her up.

Train!

Loves her frisbees

Together

We absolutely love this tree--beautiful colors all year long.

Always wants to be outside 

Boo

Playing with golf balls

Relaxing

Dinner (not much battle tonight)

Still have lots of red and green tomatoes growing--love it!

So glad that he participates in this project too.

My love

Troy finally convinced him to try and ride this bike.  He had so much fun and didn't want to go inside.  He requested that we ride bikes after school on Tuesday.

Goofy

Happy face

Whoa--look out!

Brushing teeth

Doing the dishes

Hello...

Two months…

…since I last wrote a post.

…is a long time to not record any details or stories of our lives.

I've been in a funk lately.  I'm not sure why or exactly when it started.  I just know that I'm ready to be done.  

Next week my favorite scrapbooker, Ali Edwards, is doing her Week in the Life project.  I've followed along and participated for three years.  I plan to make this my 4th year.  I really was happy with how I documented everything on my blog last year and that's my plan again for this year.  

I'm hoping that this project will help me out of my funk and I'll get back in the habit of posting more regularly.  

So hello and hope to see you next week :)

Summer Fun

A quick review of our summer:

*Memorial Weekend:  My cousin and her family came to hang out for the weekend.  The weather wasn't great but we all had fun anyway.  Luke and Hannah love playing with Emma and Mary.

*May 30-June 11:  Trip to Tybee Island, Georgia--our first trip to Mom's new house there; we had an awesome time with Grammy, PawPaw, Sarah, Dave and Barbara.  We drove which was an adventure.  Troy flew home and the kids and I stayed a few more days and then Sarah drove home with us.

First time ever on the beach and seeing the ocean!

 Trying out a little beach golf...

*We had season tickets to our local baseball team, the Redhawks.  Both kids really loved going (despite H's face below)!  The last game that we went to Luke was picked to be a junior announcer and did a fantastic job announcing #4 Matt Duffy.

*Both kids went to Vacation Bible School for the first time.  Luke absolutely loved it and asked how long it would be before he could go again.

*Both kids had private swim lessons here at home.  Ally did a great job with both of them and they learned a bunch.

*June 23-27:  Luke spent the week with Grandma and Grandpa Johnson.  They went to the Richter farm, the zoo, the park and had a fun week!

*Grandma and Grandpa J brought LJ back home and spent the weekend with us.  We had a fun trip downtown to Myriad Gardens.

*June 24:  Hannah started potty training!!!  She caught on very quickly and is still going strong.  (I have a couple of cute pics but they're probably not appropriate for the internet.)

*July 6:  I severely hurt my back and was out of commission for about 2 weeks.  It's better now but I still need to be very careful and know when I've done too much.  The ordeal was very tough on all of us but especially for Hannah.  The first couple of weeks I was pretty much confined to bed and in order to spend some time with me Hannah brought me some lunch in bed :)

*July 10-13:  Luke's 6th birthday celebration weekend!  Family dinner on the 10th for his actual birthday and a dinosaur swim party on the 12th.

*July 18:  We finally sold and closed on our other house!!!  And yes, you better believe we took a picture :)

*Luke took golf lessons.  He really had fun and improved a lot.

*July 27-August 1: LJ was in KC with Grammy and PawPaw.  They went to a train exhibit at Union Station, the park, swimming and they also went to the zoo.  On Friday, Aunt Sarah took Luke to the Schlitterbahn water park.  Apparently he had no fear of anything.  

*August 1-4:  We were all in KC for the weekend.  My mom and I took the kids to Kaleidoscope one morning.  Not quite as I remembered from being a kid but we still had fun creating all different kinds of art stuff.

*We had a summer fun list with 114 things to do.  We completed 88 of them!  And it's technically still summer so maybe we'll get a few more done before it's over.  These are pictures from our Summer Pinterest Party which checked off many of our boxes.

Hannah's first mani-pedi--also on the list.

*I finally had a fairly successful vegetable garden.  I grew corn, okra, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, sugar snap peas, carrots, zucchini, squash and green beans.  Everying produced except the last three and there are currently flowers on the green bean plants (although it's probably too hot for them now).  We've had fresh tomatoes all summer--SO GOOD!!!

*There was lots of time spent in the pool.  

*There was lots of time spent building and playing with Legos.

*There was lots of time spent making bead necklaces or other art creations.

*There was lots of time spent playing in the driveway and riding bikes.

*And there was lots of time spent laughing and cuddling and being a beautiful family of four!