AH!! Our car!! It got shot! Derek and I came home from a afternoon at the splashpad and there were 2 kids in our yard shooting guns at cardboard boxes. Derek went over and asked them if they could do it somewhere else, on the condition that we have small kids and dogs and things we don't want getting ruined. Well later that night I went to the store to buy milk and I saw the crack but at night the crack looked like water droplettes. I figured that the sprinklers had just come on or something. I start driving the car and I hear all this creaking. I am looking around trying to find the sourse of the creaking and then I realize...my window isn't wet...IT'S BROKEN!! and there is a very obvious little bullet hole. I drove back home and searched the car and even found the BB that did it. I called the insurance and luckily they will handle it all.  Bt it has already been two weeks and the glass repair man is having a really hard time finding a replacement. It stinks big time.

Summer is here and our pool is finally open. And already we have gotten good use out of it. The kids love it, Derek and I love it, and we love that  it is such a quick easy activity. The kids have little pool ring and are just so empowered by them. They swim and jump and go all over the pool ithout any help. In fact they get mad at us if we try to help them. It is so much fun and we will be here tons!

Remember my river post? Well we had so much fun at the river except for the fact that when we were done we were all so sun drained that no one left the house for a week.  I did a little shopping and found a portable sun shelter and I LOVE IT!  It's this little half a tent and it will be perfect for the next time we go out into the world. I was really proud of myself because I put it together without any help. I left it up so the kids could see it after nap time and it has been a favorite of theirs. Just for fun I will put it up and we will read stories in it, or take it outside to just sit in. I can't wait to actually use it. Maybe this saturday!

For the last year or so Derek and I have been trying really hard to recycle. We don't have a collection service or anything in Saint George so we have to store it and sort it ourselves. We have two little milk crates that we fill up and about every week and a half we take it to the recycling bins. The kids love to come help and I love to let them.  I will usually get all the little things like paper and plastic wrappers and then I will let them help with bottles and cans. Jude is tall enough  that if I empty a crate he can stand on top of it and do put it in himself. Alice think she is big enough to do it herself but usually ends up with it coming back in her face( 3 picture from the left on the top.) And Jude always needs to look at what he has just thrown away. Then they both help me take the empty crates back to the car and we  all give each other high fives. What a cute way to help the planet! 

Alice's hair is getting so long. Now it is long enough to play with and style all sorts of crazy ways.

My mom, Lita, and I went shopping over at Ross and the goofballs in us really came out. How could we resist? There were...

Fancy dresses

 Shmancy shoes

 Fandangled head accessories

 and this....? (count the toes)

Grandma and Grandpa took us all out for icecream! Delicious!!