Sweet Summertime!

Well it appears that summer is over! School starts for both kiddos Tuesday. They are both very excited about it. I think a daily routine is going to help everyone around here, including Mommy. This post sums up the rest of our summer. We have done some serious swimming, but for some reason I never bring my camera to capture it.There are lots of pictures just thrown in here in no particular order because that's sort of how we roll these days. And seriously, where did summer go?!?!

We have gotten a tremendous amount of rain lately. PTL for this! Here are all 3 chickens watching it rain.

When we do get outside late in the afternoon, we break out the sprinkler and jump on the trampoline... and play monsters and dragons and such.

We went back-to-school shoe shopping. Brantlee was showing Ty her new sparkly Bob's.

Last weekend we had a Crager gathering at Uncle Mitchell's house. C & B (and Poppa) were entertained by the swimming pool.

Cameron, Ava (5 months), Kyle, and Ty (one month)

It must be great to have a fairy as a sister. 

We have done some serious lounging in our pj's.

Trying out some spin art and they were obsessed with it! It eventually had to be put high in the closet. Spinning paint can't just happen anytime with no adult supervision, you know.

OH! And let's not forget the OLYMPICS! That's something else we have been obsessed with. There were several days that the t.v. never played cartoons, only coverage of the Olympics. We couldn't believe how much the kids were into it. Gymnastics was everyone's favorite!

Sweet Ty at 5 weeks. He is officially smiling, but it's still hard to capture it on camera. This was the end of one of little brother's smiles :) :) Goodness we love this fella!

Kyle and I took the kids to the Jackson zoo this past weekend for one last day of fun before school starts. Here they are at the splash pad. We were shooting for the water park on the coast, but we were afraid the weather wouldn't cooperate. Thank goodness these two are still young enough that this single tiger slide sufficed, ha! Ty didn't make the trip. We were afraid the heat would be too much for him. So he stayed home in the air conditioning and got rocked by Nana and Lolly. I'm pretty sure he didn't mind ;) 

Mid-afternoon trip to the snow cone stand. We definitely did this more than once this summer.

Collin riding at our friend Charlie's birthday party.

Another one from the zoo. We had a great zoo experience. Collin couldn't get enough of the snakes :/ :/ 

It is truly hard to wrap my mind around the fact that Collin will be at an elementary school!! Our B has grown up so much here lately and I know she will even more once she starts school. Man, this is hard!! And wonderful at the same time. We are very grateful for happy, healthy, active, growing kids (even if they do make us a little crazy at times :)