June 26, 2011

The kids finished their first week of swimming lessons. They have one more week. Aaron is doing so well. It's so nice to have three good swimmers now. Ruby loves going in the pool. And Seth is getting better at it. He loves playing on the step and is pretty brave there. And he's let us take him off the step a few times in a floaty. We're loving our pool. It's so great to be able to go cool off every day.

The kids all finished tennis yesterday. So we have the rest of the summer off from sports. Bob and I are looking forward to easy Saturdays.

I have an appointment tomorrow with my regular doctor to find out about my breathing. I hope he has some answers for me. I went to my OB this week for my annual appt. and she prescribed a nasal steroid to try in case it is some kind of allergy; and a chest xray.

This Thursday and Friday the kids are going to the Deans' house while Bob and I and Ruby celebrate our 10th anniversary. We're going to go see Lion King at Mandalay Bay and we're going to stay one night at a hotel at Lake Las Vegas. We decided not to go anywhere far because we have Ruby and if we stay here she can sleep in her bed more and have her toys to entertain her and we can get babysitters really easy. So we're just going to go one night away and the other night at home. We've been married 10 years! I love Bobby so much. He's so perfect for me.

The kids' summer goals are going really well. Our Wii broke in Visalia, so we decided that the reward for all of us completing our summer goals will be that we get a new wii. I'm excited that I found a great project for us all to work on for our Serve goal. It's pretty hard to find things the kids can actually do, but I found an agency called Baby's Bounty. They give baby necessities to low-income new moms. And they always need donations. So the kids and I are going to organize a mock baby shower for them to have with their friends. We'll do all kinds of cheesy baby shower games that kids will love. And their friends can bring diapers or other items that we can donate to Baby's Bounty. We all think it will be lots of fun.

Their jobs are going well too. I'm not very good at remembering to enforce dinner jobs, but they're doing their laundry and rooms and Saturday jobs really well.

June 20, 2011

We had a great visit with my parents. We went to the roller coasters and had a great time. My mom got a babysitter so she and I could go shopping one day. And we went out and picked blueberries with my dad. I think that and the roller coasters was the highlight of the trip for the kids. I loved being able to relax and be spoiled. My dad seemed more "present" on this trip, which was really nice. I have such wonderful parents.

We came back Friday and Bob got home from scout camp that day too. So we got to hang out together all day Saturday and go to tennis and get a few things done around the house. And we all swam in the pool. It was a nice, not-t00-busy saturday.

Yesterday was Father's day. We got Bob a bunch of BBQ things--so we can have fun parties with friends and our pool this summer. And he got four ties that my dad picked out. We made him blueberry pancakes and peanut butter cookies.

June 12, 2001

We ended up getting a pool guy too. That pool is ending up to be complicated and expensive. But I'm still so glad we have it and think it will be so worth it to have such a fun thing to do when it's so hot outside. And Aaron learned to swim by himself this week. He's taken swimming lessons for three years, but doesn't ever want put his head under or do what the teacher tells him to. But he was watching Cannon Dean practicing swimming with Kata and he decided he could do it. He told me he wanted to swim to me and he did and he started putting his face under and everything. Now he swims across our whole pool. We start swimming lessons when we get back, so that'll be great to polish up his skills.

I'm at my parents' house now. The kids got home from school at 12:45 and we were on the road at 1:00. The drive wasn't horrible. We stopped and got out at Mcdonalds once so I could feed Ruby. There was some fighting, but Ruby and Seth did really well. So far the weather has been perfect here. The kids have been swimming everyday at the neighbor's house. We went to the mall to pick out fathers' day presents--ties for Bob and new in-style jeans for my dad. I went and swam laps at my mom's gym. And the kids have been feeding the turtles a lot. Tomorrow we're going to the roller coaster place next to the Fresno Zoo. The kids are all excited.

The kids had their last days of school and Antonello. Danny was a little sad because he had a great group of friends this year. Rachel did too, but she she's never been as sad about moving schools, she's more excited. They had their award assemblies and Danny got A/B honor roll all year--I think he got one B on his first trimester report card. And Rachel got A honor roll all year again.

Bob is back in Las Vegas now. He had a great time on his trip and got 6 out of the 8 high points he had planned because of bad weather.

I started having my weird breathing thing again like I did last year when I was pregnant. I forgot how miserable it is. And it also makes me nervous about what can be causing it. Last year they couldn't figure it out and said I just had to wait until I had the baby came. And it did get better within days of having Ruby. But this week it just started again. This is the same time of year so maybe it's an allergy thing. Or tuesday I went to my swimming class and we worked on stretching our breathing out so I really stretched my lungs. But that seems bad too if my lungs can't handle that. I have a Dr appointment in a few weeks to check it out.

June 5, 2011

I painted my chairs this week. Monday was Memorial Day and Bob was home so he watched the kids inside and I primed and painted for about 6 hours. Then I put a touch-up coat on Wednesday and Friday I touched up a little more and put the gloss on. And now they're in our kitchen. We all love it. And I bought the fabric and sewed the curtains. Bob hung one of the rods yesterday. Our house is starting to look like we live here more permanently.

Monday for Memorial Day we had a bbq and invited Sandy and May and the Kartchners. We had a great time with them. The Kartchners got in the pool too, but it was barely 80 degrees that day and the heater wasn't working so they didn't swim long.

We had a pool guy come and get the pool filter working better this week. Now I need to get the heater people to come look at that and then we should be good to go for the summer. We've had a long spring, which is nice and rare in Las Vegas, but school gets out this week and summer and heat are coming. The kids are excited to swim every day.

The last day of school is this Thursday. I'm leaving with the kids right after school to go stay with my mom for a week. Bob is going to do a bunch of high points in New England from Wed to Saturday. Then Tuesday through Friday the next week he'll be at scout camp. So it'll be nice to be at my mom's instead of home by myself.