summer...you're going by too fast!

 We are already 4 weeks into our summer...only 7 more to go!  

 We went to the Rio Grand Nature Center on Saturday.  I had gone with the cub scouts earlier in the week for a 3 mile hike in 95 degree weather that took us 4 HOURS because of other requirements trying to get done.  It was exhausting.

 Our hike was much shorter.  

I like pictures.  You only see the happy times and the kids look so cute.  Never mind the screaming done earlier or the pushing each other off the bench.  They look perfect here!  

Summertime haps:

-Swim lessons all last week and next.  We have stayed almost everyday after the lessons to have the free lunch and swim.  I burned Ryan's shoulders so bad they are scabbing up.  SO bad.  Have you noticed we have some white kiddos?

- Kids have been on a couple hikes.  We are trying to make them good hikers.

-Ryan has to get braces.  He's 7.  His teeth are so crowded on the bottom that his permanent teeth can't get through.  He lost a tooth  a year and a half ago and you wouldn't even know it isn't there unless you count his teeth.

Ryan also stopped wetting the bed.  The poor kid sleeps so heavy that he has been in pull-ups and has only been dry at night a handful of times in the last 4 years.  We borrowed one of those alarms and after 2 weeks he was dry and has been for almost 4 weeks now.  It's a miracle!  (Greg and Allyson, it didn't even traumatize him :)

We have a trip to Denver coming up, basketball camp, my parents coming, and another session of swim lessons and then the summer will be over!