tv free for two weeks

 michael and i made a goal to go tv free for the rest of summer a few weeks ago

and we made it two weeks before i threw in the towel

i think eleanor's finger put me over the edge but it was great, really

the kids played with their toys more

 michael met us at costco after work one day

 then i left them at the check out so i could head to the temple

 we registered eleanor and hazel for ballet this fall

but eleanor had to dress up to do so

 cute kids on our way in to church one sunday

 we played a lot of badminton

and found this guy one evening

 cute kids eating breakfast at the counter

 noah taught his siblings some martial arts 

and olive was sure noah's cup was for bum protection...

 eleanor and olive fought a little extra with nothing to distract them

 olive is positive she doesn't want to do ballet anymore 

she wants to do gymnastics so we let her, hazel and noah try a class each

just for fun

 hazel still wants to do ballet (phew!) but olive is sure she wants to be a gymnast

noah liked his parkour class but there's no way we're paying $50 a month for that

he can jump on the trampoline at home for free :)

we did sign him up for soccer this fall

 henry discovered his love of books lately

and had a lot of fun at the library when we went recently

 we've been checking on the garden costantly

the watermelons are getting really big

 and it's almost time to harvest our first homegrown cantaloupe

 a trip to target

 i got pressured into trying this dress on from the girls section

by michael and hazel

 i made apple cinnamon scones with apples from our tree

 after a terrible week of eleanor having stitches and unable to get her hand wet

so we couldn't swim or anything, i finally busted out the tablet to get her to take a nap

 henry loves to be outside and i love him in cloth diapers

i've started mostly cloth diapering henry since eleanor potty trained (hallelujah)

and it's the cutest thing in the whole world

more apples from the backyard

these turned in to apple crisp

 cute girls

 almost every day

this is what i eat for lunch

i make a salad from kale, basil, carrots and green onion from the garden

it's delicious

 idaho has the prettiest sunsets

 fun pool party our friends invited us to at the natatorium in boise

 eleanor wearing hazel's shoes, henry's coat and using hazel's umbrella

admittedly i'm a little disappointed in myself for not holding out for the rest of the summer

tv free

but it was a pretty rough 9 days of eleanor having stitches

and i was kind of at my breaking point by the end

and now we only have a week and a half left of summer! so crazy 

i'm pretty proud we made it as far as we did

and the kids are less in the habit of watching now so that's good