Mitchell Camp Out 2008

Last night we returned from our annual Mitchell camping weekend. We have done this for a weekend in the summer for quite a few years now. The girls had a blast playing with their cousins and getting DIRTY!! The weather was nice and all of Jeff's family was able to make it. We enjoyed getting to visit and play with everyone.

Playing in the Rain!

Last week we had a couple storms roll through in the evenings. It was so nice to have the temperatures drop a little, so we could actually go outside. Hayley and Jeff had some fun playing in the rain!
What a Kick!

YAHOO!

Check out those muscles!
30 and still looking good!

Headband Sisters

It is so nice when these two play together!

I love watching them!

Kyrsten often is relaxing in this chair!

My Blondie!

Swim Lessons

I finally remembered my camera and got some shots of Hayley in swim lessons. She saw me taking pictures, so she was smiling in quite a few of them. This is her last week. She has had a lot a fun! She doesn't love to go under water, but she loves to go "swimming."

Waiting for her turn

Kick! Kick! Kick!Swim!

Getting ready to grab ringsBig Arms

Chillin

The girls were playing outside and Kyrsten hadn't come in for a while, so Jeff went to look for her and found her like this. Her and Hayley had dragged their chairs over to the wall (shade), and Kyrsten was just chillin playing with her water gun, making gun sounds. I am not sure really why this was funny and cute, but it was!

Hayley is 4!

For now I am posting a slide show of Hayley's birthday week. We didn't really plan an official "birthday party" so we did stuff before, on, and after her birthday. All the better for Hayley! For the most part the celebrations consisted of Chuck E. Cheese with family and swimming with friends. Here is a random assortment of some of the fun...

Just Living Life

We have just been living life. I guess there are a couple "summer" updates. Jeff got a second job for the summer. For fun, I mean the $8/hr is a lot of money, but more for the fun of it, he is coaching the Casa Grande swim team. He gets up early every morning to "coach" before work then has the swim meets Saturday mornings. He seems to be really enjoying it. Maybe I should pick a job too! I might need to just so we can fill up our cars.
Hayley started swim lessons at the city pool last week and is loving it. Except last week the water was actually cold since our summer really hasn't been too bad yet, so on Thursday she ended her lesson with blue lips, but she still wants to go back.

(Sorry for the bad picture, guess I should take the camera to swim lessons)

Kyrsten wasn't lucky enough to get signed up for swim this year so she hangs out with me and watches from the side. Maybe next year.

Kyrsten is enjoying the toddler life of getting into cupboards and pushing the chair over to the counter to climb up to get into drawers, etc.

Hayley most traumatic life experience probably happened this last Friday. The girls and I went over to my mom's house and with in the first 10 minutes of being there, Hayley stepped on my younger sister's hair straightener and burned her foot. She did get a couple blisters as you can see from the pictures, but the kid screamed for about 2 hours. I thought I was going to take her to the ER to get them to calm her down. She finally calmed down and passed out, most likely from the medicine I gave her to help, and woke up a lot better. Of course she wanted to be carried a lot and milked it for what is worth and more. Then she had a birthday party to go to and magically her foot was better and she was back on it with no problem. Kids are amazing what they will do to play. Then of course when we get back home it hurts again. Anyway, it seems to be healing quickly. I hope the girl never breaks a bone, because the screaming will be worse than anything else. Drama Queen for sure!This was after Jeff popped the blister so it looks a little better than the huge bubble.

Until next time...