miscellany monday

Happy August!!  I cannot believe our summer is almost over and that Noah will enter first grade in three short weeks.  It went by so quickly!  We still have another birthday to celebrate - Noah's 6th - and a beach trip planned so I'm definitely not rushing anything but it will be nice to get back into our school year routine.  I think Noah is ready to go back.  I am so thankful to have a child who loves learning and school!

{en}

Meet my nemesis.

I fought the duck (?) and it won. Actually, I think it was a tie.  The kids love to bring leftover bread to a group of ducks that are always in this one pond.  There is a really aggressive one (above) and the moment we got out of the car on Saturday morning, it went after Noelle's neck.  I instinctively hit it with the bag of bread I was holding, scooped Noelle up and proceeded to eat pavement.  It was actually my knee that bore the brunt of the fall but Noelle was spared as was my new lens (for the most part).  As if my legs needed another injury...

{to}

I don't know how we got through the past few summers without our pool.  The kids spend so much time in here and it is so awesome to watch Noelle's swimming develop.  She is such a strong swimmer now!  Noah has been a fish for years.  I am so grateful to have two strong swimmers on my hands who love to be in the water.

{tre}

The first beach trip that Rob and I took was on 7/16/1998.  He was so thoughtful and had everything planned out, including bringing my favorite Chinese food.  I love wonton soup - minus the wontons!  He ordered it that way and they messed it up that particular day and only gave him wontons - no soup.  We got a good laugh out of it and still laugh about it to this day.

A few weeks ago...on 7/16...he came home with some wonton soup in hand :)  Still thoughtful 13 years later!

{fire}

 My kids are obsessed with lizards.  Last weekend, Sarah watched the kids while I got to spend the afternoon at the spa with my mom (thanks, Sarah!).  That night, I went outside and found a lizard in a jar on the table.  Then, I found these pictures on my camera :)

Looks like they were successful in catching one!  I never did hear the story about it...

{fem}

Speaking of finding pictures on the camera, I found a bunch of awesome ones from when the kids' cousins were visiting last month.  I can't get over how much Noah and his cousin, Brady, look alike.

{seks}

 

I think the next hand print art that we're going to do is dolphins.  I snapped a picture of some hand print art at Sea World and think the dolphins are too cute.

{syv}

I think this picture ranks as one of the most random things I have ever seen!  On Friday, Noelle and I dropped Noah off at Sea World camp and decided to go into the park for a little bit.  We walked in the back entrance that was closed to the public.  One of the news stations was filming a little clip and we happened to walk by right as they were loading a sea lion onto the back of a golf cart.  It was just so random and made me laugh.  They definitely weren't expecting anyone from the general public to see this!  Noelle thought it was hilarious!