Girl Scouts go to work out

We had the girl scouts to the YMCA for a Zumba work out. Funny is what I am sure we looked like. There were 6 girls and 2 leaders. Yes me being one of them. We worked out for an hour then went swimming. The girls had a good time and we got to get them together here during the summer. It was the first time Samantha and I had been to the YMCA here in town since it opened. It is a nice place. I can just imagine what the poor instructor thought when we all walked in. But she has way more energy then me that is for sure!

My other firemen

Of course after Stephen Samantha needed to try it.

And then Matthew.

Which was just funny!

As he had a hard time walking in just the pants and boots

But God he is cute!

National Night Out

Mini loved driving the truck

All the kids and the 2 firemen.

Matthew got to climb in and play too. He wanted to check out the oxygen tanks.

I told you she liked driving. She hung out in there a long time.

See what I mean?! Like 4 other kids came and went and there she sat. Good thing those guys were not in too big a hurry!

bowling

Look at that form there on my son! Oh Matthew loves to bowl!

We went with some friends and the kids love to bowl with them.

And compete. Yes they see who gets the highest score. It is fierce I tell you! Of course I make my kids bowl with no bumpers. LOL handicap them is what I say. Matthew has bumpers yet. But he is getting better all the time.

4 wheel riding

Dominic has a small 4 wheeler and it is set to only go so fast so on Sat the kids got to try it out. Stephen first. And since he is my caustious one. He went driving around and never hit a tree.

Jim gave the little ones a ride.

Including Twitch who loves to go for rides.

Then it was Samantha's turn.

Needless to say I made her get off after a bit. She would not go a speed she could control. It was stop or full on. She hit a tree not once but twice and then Mom ended her ride. Magically I think she has learned that maybe a bit slower would be better. But we will see next time we go up. She is my child who loves to show off. What am I to do with her?

Check out bears under bite. It is so cute! He really is a good puppy! And Bear and twitch even played well together this time. Not so much hiding going on from twitch.

Look who was in the dog house!

And who had joined him!

Yea you guessed who sent them there, yea the bossy lady who only happenes to be 10.

The kids played great all weekend and we had a really good visit. It had been too long since we had time to run visit Jim and Kay and we took the chance when it came that we could go.

swimming

We went to Tia and Kents for supper on Wednesday night. The kids got to swim.

And swim they did for over an hour.

Stephen is under there. Do not ask why. I never figured it out.

But he built this structure to play under and swim with and he had a good time playing under it too. Tia was like here is a boy scout doing his thing. Because he focused on it for a long time getting it just right and then playing.

Off to bowl

We went with Rachel and her girls to bowl on Tuesday. The kids had a good time and we just had the big kids in one lane and the small kids in the other.

going bowling

Man does she not look thrilled?

He is happy to be throwing a ball down the lane.

I took the kids and Julie brought her kids plus some to play a few games of bowling with us. We bought the kids a pass so they can bowl 2 games a day for the next few months. And I plan to us it a lot. The kids love to go and I get top sit and visit with other people. Well and help Mini get the ball downt he lane sometimes.

We even fed the kids pizza while there. They had a blast and they got to play with friends. I think I may take them again today after I get my shirts done that I will be getting picked up tonight.

Girls just wanna have fun

The girls watched a movie at bedtime. they were tired

So was Mini

They sang, they ran in the sprinklers twice. They ate a lot of fruit and chips and veggies. carrots with peanut butter was a hit. Yuck is all I can say on that one. But they played hard and slept in the next morning. Before resuming their singing career's. And if it works there is a sample below for you to listen to.

Surprise Samantha!

Opening gifts from friends

She got another webkinz she loves those things.

Checking out the candles

Julie made cookie cakes for me

Thank you Julie! It helped me a lot!

Tia kept Samantha away for a few hours and brought her home at 3:15pm. I hade 4 little girls here. And they played really well together. Loud but I laughed a lot.

Forts galore

The kids worked on their forts while up at the cabin. Winter was not too hard on them but they needed to replace a few logs. Then the play started and they got to play in there and hide in there and in general get dirty in there. It takes me back to the days I had a fort and hung out in there for days at a time. Life was so much easier then.