Fun in the Sun

First off, no baby yet. 3 weeks to go and counting! Here's a picture for your belly-viewing pleasure.

Summer kicked off with a bang. The most exciting thing so far is our new dough-boy pool. It is our sanity so far and is so awesome to just go in the back yard and hop in when it's 100 degrees outside. The kids are getting to be great little tan swimmers.


We've been to the Strawberry Festival in Happy Valley (yes, the town is really called Happy Valley), to the coast this week where we froze (from 100 degrees to 56 is quite a shock to the system) but it was beautiful. Now we're just waiting for Junior to arrive to take the next step of this summer!

Ty's Birthday

As you can tell all my babies (until now) are spring babies. They all have birthdays within weeks of each other which makes it fun but also a little crazy!

Tyler's 7th birthday was the end of May. He also got a "family party" because it's an odd year for him. He chose to go mini-golfing for the first time. We were fortunate to have great weather over Memorial Day so we went then. Again the techniques to get the ball to the hole were interesting and pretty funny. The older two were pretty good and Ellie had the hack it to the hole approach.

It was an optimistic game, even if it was pretty high scoring. Tyler would often shout "I got a hole in 6!" and Ellie jumped up and down cheering no matter how many strokes it took. I think golfing is too quiet a game for our family but we sure had a good time then!

Ty had a great birthday and I can't believe he's 7!