Only 3 Weeks Left?!?!

Wait!  I haven't had enough time.  How can there only be 3 weeks left?  This is so unfair. (side note:  I started this post when there were still 5 weeks left but never finished it... I was too busy cramming things in and spending time with my kiddos!)

Don't get me wrong we have had lots of fun so far, but man, has it flown by.  I can't believe in 3 short weeks the summer will be over and I will go back to having only the evenings and weekends with my little boy.  Guess I don't plan on wasting it sitting here at the computer.  :) 

Here is another photo blast of summer activities since the last one:

Noisy Man shot a rabbit out at G'ma and G'pa V's all by himself.  He was one proud little guy, but he wouldn't hold it for the picture.  He has since built a rabbit trap so that he can trap them (so he can find them) and then shoot them.  Poor bunnies.

Our great friends from Alaska were back in Lincoln, so we got to go with them to the Lincoln Children's Zoo
This is Noisy Man and Miss Firecracker's first camel ride!

We enjoyed a hot day at Prairieland Dairy Day!  I highly recommend it.  A super fun and free day,
including lunch and ice cream!

We have spent LOTS of time at the water park!  The only place to be when it is so stinkin' hot!

We got a new basketball hoop (a late birthday gift for Noisy Man).  When it was still cool enough we spent a lot of time playing with it.  It has now been put in the ground with cement instead of that big base thing, but hasn't been played with much due to the 100 degree weather.

Miss Firecracker took a session of gymnastics at our Y.  She L.O.V.E. loved it and will be signing up for the next session as well.  I can't wait for the Olympics for her to see what the gymnasts do there!  Her teacher was very impressed with how strong and advanced she was as the youngest person in the class.



Noisy Man played some coach pitch baseball.  He did great and only had to use the tee a couple of times.  His biggest struggle was remembering to drop the bat and run after he hit the ball! :)

Miss Thumb Sucker with our Alaskan friends' new baby.  She has the best hair ever!

Noisy Man and his Alaskan buddy.  He has really missed him since they moved back and was so glad to get to spend a couple of days paling around with him again.

We attended 3 or 4 different 4th of July parties and had a blast.  Miss Firecracker and Noisy Man loved it.  Miss Thumb Sucker, not so much.  She did not like the noise and cried through almost all the shows we saw.

Mommy did another crazy run called Color Me Rad.  It was super fun and I got super dirty.  I don't know if I would call it a run though as 80% or more of the people in it just walked.  You go along the course and they have different "color stations" where they either throw colored starch at you or spray it on you.  Then just before the finish line you get your own color bag to throw at everyone.  It was a blast!  I am just bummed my shirt didn't stay looking that cool.  It is just kind of a dirty pink now.

In addition to the fun in these photos we have dealt with a few illnesses this last week.  Miss Thumb Sucker lost her name for 5 whole days when she caught some weird virus (somewhat like hand-foot-mouth disease only hers was just in her mouth and she never ran a fever which is very unusual) so her mouth was in severe pain.  The only thing the poor thing would eat were the squeeze packets of applesauce.  It was hard to even get her to drink anything.  The pain also kept her from sucking her thumb.  I was a little bit hopeful that the good thing to come out of this torturous virus would be for her to kick the habit, but she is on the mend and back to her old ways.

Daddy and I have started doing some workout videos in the evenings.  I needed a change up in the running routine (it is too hot to be running outside) and I wanted to coax him into working out with me, so I really gave him no choice.  I told him he has to get into shape because he can't die before I do.  :)  I'm not sure he appreciates this, but he is going along with it for the time being.  See, I told you I have a keeper!  He'll even do Jillian Michaels workouts with me!

Mommy also got to go see my favorite author again for a fun little girls trip.  Jen Hatmaker was speaking down in Olathe, KS (a suburb of Kansas City) and it was super cheap to attend the event, so some girlfriends and I made an overnighter out of it.  We had a great time shopping and eating and being challenged by this amazing author and speaker.  If you want to know more about what I learned/thought about the event check it out.

Lots more to do before the end of the summer.  The fair is this week and we are doing a small vacation as well as getting to take Noisy Man to a day camp.  Hopefully, I'll post before another full month next time! :)