last week

my friend christie came and stayed overnight 

the kids had so much fun playing

and we took them to our favorite snow cone shack

 we added some flowers to the playhouse

 spent lots of time at the pool

 vacuuming with a baby in her belly

 big baby

 i took the big kids each on a back to school date

noah and i went to walmart and target and got school supplies

 he loved chatting my ear off about star wars and legos

 my handsome little cuddler at the pool

 for hazel's date i took her to get a soda and a cookie from the fix 

and then we got her some school clothes

 olive and i went to frozen yogurt and got her a new pair of shoes

 and a lollipop

they all loved their one on one time with me

 on the last day of swim lessons the kids got to jump off the diving boards

noah and hazel did the high dive and olive did the regular one

 debbie and kent passed through town and took us out to lunch

it was really fun

 we ran out of time to go camping this summer and i'm pretty pregnant for it, anyway

so we let the kids camp in the backyard 

 henry and eleanor chose to sleep inside but the big kids lasted all night and loved it

 last saturday noah and olive each had birthday parties to go to at the same time

so we took the other three out for dessert to thank them for helping us with yard work all morning

 we finished up that afternoon/evening

moving lots of bark, tacking down the weed tarp, pruning trees

 and a little wrestling