This summer has seriously just flown by. It's been one thing after another after another! Most of it good, some of it not so good, but I'm ready for school to start and things to slow down a little bit. Also, this post has so many pictures.
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| After I got done reading books with Asher he was complaining because all of his millions of plushies were on the floor, so I picked them up and stuff them all up his shirt! I thought he would immediately take them out, but he slept all night like that. There's even on up the back of his shirt! |
We also had Mitchell Camp in July! We look forward to this every year. It's fun to spend a few days talking to people I only see all the time...😂 But it really is a 3 day party! We all camped out in front of my parents house and painted fingernails, swam in the pool, went down the waterslide, played D&D, made pretty magnets with jewel art, and ate so much food!
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| Glow stick party! |
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| Sparklers! |
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| We all went tubing down a river and it was so relaxing and fun! But after a few days of going to bed super late and running around like crazy, my kids all zonked out in the car on the way home. |
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| Big water slide! My mom rented this out and all the kids (and some adults-me included!) spent the day enjoying it! |
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| We also went on a hike at Cress Creek Trail. I love that hike, but it was really hot and we were all sweating very bad by the end! Asher especially tends to overheat quickly. But I think they still all enjoyed it! |
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| He was feeling well enough by the end to still bug Mia so I guess he was okay. |
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| All the grandkids plus Grandpa! |
I have my kids do the Summer Reading Program at our library every summer. We usually get a million coupons for a free fry from McDonald's or Wendy's that I always forget about until they're expired, but one week they got a coupon for entry into the Museum of Idaho! They had a Space Exhibit that was pretty fun.
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| This was a part of their Natural History section. Mia next to a mammoth. |
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| In the children's play area. A teepee! |
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| Also in the children's area - the cutest little log cabin. |
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| Riding just like Lewis and Clark! |
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| They had a flight simulator where you could design a rocket and try flying it through a course. |
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| This was a game where you had to try and clean up as much space junk as you could. Asher was really good at it because he was the only person I saw that was using 2 hands to use the controls. |
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| Flying like a bird! This was Ava's favorite and she did it about 5 times. |
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They also have an "Old West" type exhibit that's always fun to look at.
This was the photographer's studio. |
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| Dentist's office |
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| Seamstress |
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| Barber. All the kids were curious why there was a bathtub so I had to explain that people didn't bathe very often and didn't always have a tub in their house. |
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| Schoolhouse |
I would say the thing my kids were most excited about that happened in July was not something we planned. One day, a little kitty showed up at our door and in one day managed to slip into our house 5 different times. I asked around to see if I could find the owner with no luck. I borrowed a cat carrier from my parents and we took it to the vet to see if it was microchipped and it wasn't. While we were there we found out the cat was a girl, about 7-8 months old, and pregnant. 😮 On the way home from the vet the kids kept asking me if we could keep it and I honestly was a little overloaded at that point and could not form thoughts or make any kind of decision. When we got home I left pretty much right away to go with my parents to see my uncle who was in the hospital. While I was gone David took the kids to the store and bought a cat bed, toy, food, dish, kitty litter, and a litter box! So I guess we have a cat now!
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| Her name is Luna. And I love her. |
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| And so does everyone else. |
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| She loves the bathroom and will be your buddy if you're sitting on the toilet. |
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| Millie is...getting used to having another animal in the house. She's never growled or barked at her, but has shown her teeth when she's getting annoyed. And anytime the cat drinks out of her water bowl she stands like this monitoring the situation until the cat is done and then she'll leave. Again, she doesn't growl or try to stop the cat, just stands there looking at the wall. She acts like an older sibling who is very mad we brought home a new baby and now she has to share all her stuff. |
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| But don't worry, Millie still gets plenty of attention! |
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| And she is still very spoiled. |
Honestly, the hardest part about getting a cat has been managing Ava's cuteness aggression. She loves that cat so much that every time she sees it she feels like she has to pick it up and hug it and snuggle it and love it and that's just not what cat's like. When she's loving the cat a little too hard and it starts meowing Ava calls that the "cat alarm". I've had to explain to my kids that cats aren't like dogs. You can pet Millie all day and at the end of the day she'll still want more! But with cats they like to have some attention and then some space. Actually, it's kind of funny the things that I have to explain about cats even to David. He never had cats growing up so some things that I don't even think are things I've had to explain. Like how cats backs are super flexible, so they can contort themselves into weird positions but it doesn't hurt them. And yes, we decided to take her even though she is going to have kittens. So in about a month I'll be able to post super cute kitten pictures! And 2 months after that I'll get to post pictures of my kids crying as we start trying to find the kittens new homes! But my mom did point out that it would be a fun thing for my kids to experience and Luna really is a great kitty and we all love her so I'm just going with the theory that she was meant to find us and we were meant to have her and help her.
I will share one exchange I had with David today. He's always said how much he hates cats and never wanted one, but this is seriously one of those "Dad's with the dogs (or cats) they didn't want" type situation. I was laying on our bed looking at my phone. David was in the bathroom.
"Hey Abby, your cat is in the tub."
"Cool."
"Hey Abby, she's licking the faucet."
"Yeah, she does that."
"I turned on the water a little. I think she likes it."
*Me smiling and silently laughing*
"I bet she does!"
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| I always plant a bunch of tomato plants because Mia loves tomatoes and eats them all. Like really, all of them. I had one plant that was really struggling and I almost pulled it up, but then it started growing a tomato! My sister called it my Charlie Brown plant. |
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We went on a very hot bike ride (it was about 95 degrees)
and the girls got to swing on their favorite swing! |
Congratulations, you made it to the end! Hopefully my next post won't be quite so long...
