Some things that happened in the last several months.

E-Convention

Veronica's product development annual project for school.  She didn't win but the voting was totally one-sided.  Oh well.  I thought it was a great idea.  So proud of Veronica and her way of thinking.

Jeff and I at a Collective Soul concert!  Our favorite band. We had so much fun and we were so close to the stage.  I did feel old by the end of the night, didn't know  I would feel sore from standing the whole time. Definitely a great show!

Daddy-Daughter Sock Hop. 

The girls had so much fun going to this dance with Jeff.  

He had a blast too.

Veronica's last day of 2nd grade!!!

Spider crabs that our home teacher shared with us. Pretty tasty but not that pretty.

Dodgers!!! We are fans.  Jeff collects the bobbleheads.  We buy tickets. We go. Jeff's parents were in town in July and we went to 2 games with them.  It's fun to go the stadium, most of the time.  I think our kids love how loud it is and that I pack lots of "sanity snacks."  Sanity snacks are all the really good snacks that I only pull out for occasions when I just need a few hours of non-whining children. Violet is the wild card because if she's not happy then the whole time is pretty bad...but if we just let her crawl around she is happy.  Luckily there were plenty of laps to bounce on and she didn't get the nasty floor too much.  Too bad the Dodgers haven't been very consistent but we'll still support them and the kids have such a fun time.  It's worth it.

We've been to the beach almost every Saturday this summer.  It's quite a feat. Taking 4 kids to the beach isn't always that easy.  We actually went through 2 bottles of sunscreen.  Jeff only managed to get burned a couple of times.  Kids look perfectly sun-kissed and golden.  The school-aged kids start school in a few days, which made for a very short summer but a very fun summer.  I think the fact that we only had a month and a half break that I actually tried to make sure the kids had fun and did stuff that we would not have done once school started.
 

7/11/2012
Free slurpees and 100+ temps was the perfect treat.
Violet begged for tastes...the kids were gracious enough to share.

Got Jeff a fishing voucher for Father's Day and here he is with his catch.  Pretty good. 

Lana and Veronica sharing snacks. The Tanigawa's were our beach buddies this summer.

Violet was pretty laid back at the beach.  She had some moments where she cried a lot but she managed to keep herself pretty occupied with the sandy snacks and the sand.

For playgroup we went to Underwood Family Farms and Vanessa and Violet, and all their little friends, had so much fun and left with a belly full of strawberries.  Violet loves strawberries so she was in heaven. How cute is she here...love that little face.

David graduated preschool!  He had so much fun with school this year. He is growing up so quickly and such a sweet heart.  He's starting Kindergarten this school year and I over heard someone ask him if he's excited to start Kindergarten and he said, "Yeah, but I'm a little nervous."

Here's the proud graduate.
That girl in the background with the black dress always brought David a special treat everyday and spoiled him rotten.  On this day, David mentioned that he was going to miss Saleena.

Violet is officially a crab connoisseur  and would screech if we took too long getting the meat out for her.

Backyard fun.

Always eating something!

Goodbye to summer break! We had fun.