Catching up....again!

EERRR! In my hurry to get a post up, I uploaded all the pics. backward! I guess that's what I get for trying to rush! Bear with me, while we go in reverse....Kent was out of town all last week, so I made a big effort to go out and have lots of fun with the kids, in between my work schedule. It was a long week, but we all survived! One evening it was really nice out, so I put all the kids in their swim suits and loaded up a picnic dinner and headed to Liberty Lake Park. They were thrilled! After playing in the water, on the slides, and eating dinner, there happened to be a concert in the park. It was a kids recital from the local music lessons place. I ran into a friend from my book club and we were able to catch up and chat a bit. She has an older son and twin daughters too! They are 11 and 9 though. It's nice to see someone who has survived these years! (Besides my MIL of course)! Chillin' and listening to the music!

Trying to get a good shot of all three of them, still on my list of things to do.

Dani and I finishing up dinner. (I never realize that I actually LOOK as tired as I feel)! I need to start making a conscious effort of putting make-up on. That is kind of embarrassing!

Nutritious picnic dinner of cold pizza, doritos, pasta salad and grapes!

Grandma Phillips stopped by to play before she met some friends for Chinese food. Hhmmm, chinese food, or cold pizza on the grass???

My fearless monkey girl! Ellie keeps up with the big kids. It drives me crazy! She just goes for it. She leaps out and grabs the pole and slides down without a second thought! She is so coordinated and strong. I want to get her into gymnastics when she's old enough.

Dani tries to follow her, but she's not quite there yet. At least she waits until I can get there to help her (most of the time).

By the end of the night Ellie had huge red owies on the insides of her legs from sliding down the pole. Note to self: Never a good idea to slide down poles in a swimsuit. Those strippers must use lots of oil, I'm not really sure how that works. But Ellie was hurting for a few days. I guess next time I will just bring a bottle of baby oil and lather up the pole!

Brayden showing her how it's done.

YAY! Last week I got to go on a date with my boy, all by ourselves! We had such a great time. We had to go to a few stores and then we headed to the free movie at Regal cinemas. It was great! We had to watch Vegie-tales (not my first choice, I struggled sitting through it) but Brayden LOVED it! He was such a good, sweet boy. I always feel so bad after we have these times together, because I sometimes forget what a good boy he is!

Father's Day! We had a BBQ at our house with family, and we celebrated Auntie Helen's (family friend) retirement! It was a fun day, but rainy, so we were all inside.

The girls with Great-Grandpa Petrousek.

My parent's were also here for that weekend, but I have no pics. of them. It was great having them here and the kids LOVED it! Each morning they woke up asking, "Grandma go? Grandpa go?" (As in, where are they sleeping?)

Dani gets kisses from Dad.

Brayden made a wonderful card for Kent. He is amazing, he can sit and write for hours now. He just finds things and copies words off of the boxes, or pictures. He loves it, maybe he will be a journalist or a writer someday.

We had a wonderful Father's day, thanks to Kent. Somehow Kent ended up doing most of the work that day....he cooked everyone breakfast, cleaned the house for the BBQ, and grilled in the rain! I love you Kent, thanks for all that you do everyday of the year!