Everything for kids was FREE…. they had a BLAST:

The Bouncy House..  Which the kids went on at leaast 10 times..not even kidding!

Face Painting:

Sandart:

Necklace making:( also suncatcher painting not pictured but they each made 2)

We ran into Sensei Sabrina:

And got to watch lots of”our girls” dancing:

Ziah and Taejan especially love it!

Ziah watching with Gramma:

Nah got done with his audition and joined us.. for the first time in 8 season’s he’s NOT a party child or Fritz…whaaa… he just got tooo big over the last year ( only an inch to go and he’s taller than me) so he’s going to be a mouse!

Then Ziah and I left the festival and walked down to her Auditions..here she is all ready:

I am happy to say she will be a Reindeer!!! She is beyond excited!!!( so am I)!!!

This week dance starts back up.. Noah has Hip Hop once a week ( and Karate 3x’s), Jadziah has Tap/Jazz and Ballet along with Soccer! Declan is not dancing this year so he just has karate twice a week. Oh and in a few weeks art classes start for Ziah… can you say busy???

Here they are at the before game cheer:

Playing, notice Miss Jadziah is with coach Lisa.. She was more or less fine as long as she was with her coach.. I am hoping over the next 7 games she warms up a bit more..if not no biggie though. We won’t let her stop before the season is over but she never has to play another season if she doesn’t like it at the end.

The boys playing with the other kids:

After the game:

I am so proud of my little girl!

Here’s Noah doing his Algebra 1.. we are using Teaching Textbooks this year after 2 years with MUS for him. We liked MUS but TT Is a much better fit for Noah. It’s a pricey program for sure, but I am so very glad we went with it!

Here’s Declan doing his learning at one of our “night school” sessions:

Noah cooked the kids breakfast the other day:

and my oh my have we gotten a ton of use out of our new pool. The weather has been about the warmest and driest stretch we’ve had all summer…

Taejan prefers his Sandbox… I can’t believe he can even fit in it anymore!Think he has enough trucks and tractors? he sure doesn’t..LOL

We’ve done a lot of art.. Eric’s now brave enough to paint with the kids while I am schooling Noah:

Declan has discovered a love of “bigger kid” puzzles.. and has gone through them like water… I wish we had more!

Oh we did a neat “art” and nature project..I actually got this idea from my friend Alison last year and we finally did it!

Needed: 1/2 an egg carton per kid…color each compartment a different color:

add a few kids:

then hit the road.. have them find objects from nature that match the colors:

not required..but also good : being goofy on the way:

Come home, add paper and good ole Elmers glue:

it was a very arty day for us!

Oh and take a look at Taejan’s sunflower!

Well until next time!

The other day we happened upon Intex 42inch deep x15 foot around metal frame pools for 75% off… needless to say I dipped into our “family fun” money and we bought it! Here’s the kids, and Eric as it was filling!(mind you it was not a very warm day and the water is ICE cold..but they don’t much care!)

all filled and swimming in the ice cold water..LOL

Saturday Jadziah started soccer..she was loving it and did so well.. her first game is this coming Saturday!

Then yesterday was our big extended family party… we, as always, had a great time!

Playing:

swimming:

Enjoying family!

we had such a good time that when we were invited back by cousin Mary we couldn’t say no..so today we went up and :

Played:

Swam:(that’s cousin Mary in the back)

and had fun!

but of course none of that happened today until we had celebrated a certain young man turning THREE!

I can’t wait to “see” it again and see what I missed or what may now hold a different meaning for me. I won’t be reading it as fast as Noah officially starts his High School curic tomorrow, but I am excited none the less!