July 12 of 12- Summer Continues...

I love Summer time.  I love having my kids home. I love having busy days with them. And I love having slow summer days with not much to do. July 12th was one of those days.  We had nothing planned when we woke-up.  I was up all night with Grace the night before. She has not been sleeping well. Could have been because the previous day we spent 5 hours at the beach and she didn't get her nap until 4:15 that evening.

Thursday was the day before Micah's 7th Birthday. So part of the evening was the prep work for that.

01. Smoothie. I got a cool blender for Mother's Day. In this recipe is soy milk, greek yogurt, banana, spinach, an apple, grapes,  frozen mixed berries, strawberries, and ice. My kids love it. So do I.

02. Grace drinking the smoothie.

03. We went swimming at our friend's house. They have a sweet pool that we often play in.

04. Lucas and Micah chilling on the couch. Lucas watching a show on the ipad. Micah practicing his math skills on his own.

05. Gracie loves the water. She is fearless and it frightens me. But, she is cute.

06. Lucas stayed at his friend's house after we were done swimming. Micah and David came home and chilled out. Micah got some ipad game time without having to share too much. David was happy to just watch and drink my soda. 

07. I went to Target in the evening.  Jon actually got home at a reasonable time so I headed to Target to get some last minute presents for Micah's b-day.  When I got home Grace was still up so she helped me unload the Target bags.

08. I was exhausted by the end of the night so I told Jon to take a picture of me on the couch sleeping.  But I couldn't pretend to sleep without smiling so instead I made a goofy face and stuck my tongue out. I'm crazy. Crazy tired that is. hehe. But don't you love my dog Phin, snuggling up with me?! I love him.

09. I put a sign up for Micah. 

10. Our family tradition is to blow up balloons and put them all over the birthday boy's bedroom floor so when he wakes up his room is over-flowing with balloons. The kids love this.

11. David fell asleep at 5 p.m. on the couch. I put him in bed even though he was still in his swimsuit. He slept until 7 the next morning. He was exhausted. 

12. This is my crazy face. I love me when I am crazy fun. Life is so much more fun when I don't take myself so seriously. This is true for everyone. Just some advice I give myself. Also, my freckles are coming in pretty nice because of all the sun I'm getting.

That sums up the day. I crawled into bed at 11:40 p.m. and Grace actually slept the whole night. Yeah!