Last Day of School

Our last day of school tradition has been to go get ice-cream. This year we decided to go to Meechies a new frozen yogurt place by our house. It lets you build your own sundae and we loved it! It was a great year of 4th grade, 4th grade, 1st grade and preschool. Its going to be a great summer!

Summer fun

Having a little lunch at the park after swim lessons ‪#‎windybutwedontcare‬ ‪#‎lovesummervacation‬

Swim lessons

Kade and Jaxon NEED to learn to swim. We probably spend an average of 2-3 days a week at the pool/Seven Peaks. Now as a mom of 4 kids who usually goes alone, I really want to have them swim :) today began their first swim lessons and Kade is already really close. We can wait to see how it goes!

Summer

I love summer. I love being at home with my kids. I love the day to day (most of the time lol). I'm so lucky I have a job that gives me time with my kids while they are little.

I ♥ spending mornings lounging...

 ♥ playing with my children (bailey made me a "cake")

♥ their creativity (Kade made himself elf ears, he makes me all kinds of fun things)

 

most of all i love these 4...

Happy 4th of July

In the Chalmers house, we ♥ the 4th of July. Paul and I met on the 4th and we've always done something fun. This year, we went to 7 peaks, then BBQed at our place and lit off a bunch of fireworks with Paul's brother Scott's family. 

I was entertaining the boys while waiting for everyone to come back. They love the iphone's flipped camera :)

 

Happy Independence Day!

1st Day of Summer Vacation

Today, the first day of my summer vacation, came and went. The girls still have 4 weeks left of school but I really wanted to play. I was thinking of them missing one day of school ** really how important is kindergarten... kidding really I am... especially since I am a teacher and all** so we could spend the day at the pool. I didn't want to take the boys and have the girls miss out. I was going to do it too but when I asked them, they refused! Can you believe that? I'm a little appalled but very proud at the same time. They love kindergarten, their teacher and friends and don't want to miss a minute of it. I hope they always feel this way!

Instead of the pool (boo!), we met Paul at the park and had a picnic. It was fun and definitely summer-y. This is their favorite park, the "green" park. They name their parks based on what color they are.

 Kylie and Bailey love monkey bars. 

Jaxon in the slide. He was amazed.

Kylie loves to play "mommy" to Jaxon.

Bailey

Kade

Ice Cream

It seems like I've posted a lot lately. Today, we spent time outside in the backyard, throwing water balloons (which are a pain when you have 3 kids that go through them like nothing, I must have filled 50 balloons for them) then went and got kid cones from McDonalds (I had forgotten they are only a quarter, what a deal!) This is the end result!

Doesn't Blake look funny! The bandanna is to keep his little blond head from burning but I think it makes him look tough and that just makes me laugh!

Linnie didn't realize I was taking this... Liz always has a huge grin eating her ice cream.

Swimming

After Kent and Stacy left, we decided to go swimming at the pool. It was a ton of fun but we found out just how sensitive Blake's skin is when he got burnt being in the sun 2 1/2 hours with 45 spf sunscreen on. Poor kid.

I hate this pic but Linnie just looks so cute in it.

Family Visit

Uncle Kent, Aunt Stacy and Cousin A came to visit this week and we are having so much fun. Uncle Kent is great for rough housing.

All the kids attacking poor Uncle Kent. A is more interested in the camera.

Trying to give Uncle Kent a Wet Willy (Aunt Stacy taught them how to do that!)

Silly Blake. He thought he was the funniest guy by putting a ball under his chin.

I was trying to get Blaketo give A a kiss on her head. This was the best he would do. It looks like he's going to eat her.

A is the funniest little baby. She sucks all the air out of her bottle then crawls/stands around drinking her bottle like this. The girl has too much to do to hold on to the bottle... Hillarious!

Busy Busy Busy

Things have been so crazy lately. I have been taking some teacher classes at the community college. You do 3 units in 6 days. I go from 8-4 everyday. Ughhh. And they give homework... who would have thought? :) Even though its a bit busy around here, I wanted to put up a super cute picture of the kids. Paul was taking pictures and they kept asking him to take some of them. They had just come in after spending about 3 hours in the backyard. They love being outside!