Summer!

How is it that I get so far behind in blogging??? I love doing it...but sometimes it's impossible to find the time to sit down. It's been a while. I recently read a blog that said they won't talk about their kids, the things they say or do. I can't think of anything better to write about! If it bores you to read about my kiddos...don't read my blog:)

We have been hanging in there with entertaining ourselves in our house and neighborhood. But it is HOT HOT HOT! Which is fairly equivalent to a snowstorm. You just can't go outside. Not without two children melting extremely quickly. I have been trying to get them outside for an hour before snack time in the morning. I force them on a bike ride...you WILL have fun. Ignore the gnats flying into your mouth and eyes. Play in the pool. You WILL LIKE IT! I drag them to the playgrounds. Ignore the zillions of bees flying around. That's how our mornings go:) But then I feel less guilty about staying inside the rest of the day.

Last week, we hit a wall and ended up driving each other insane. Nana to the rescue!! She drove down to pick us up and tote us back to NJ. We decided that we would exhaust the kids with fun activities to make up for the quiet days we are literally stuck at home for. Let the fun begin! Blueberry picking, swimming at the lake and playing in the sand, Turtle Back Zoo, a field trip to a working gristmill, more beach, feeding animals at the local farm stand, and playing with the neighborhood kids at night until they are sweaty and exhausted. It worked. It took them a couple of days after we came home to catch up on their rest.

Now the countdown to my next driving test....and positive thinking that I will pass so we can have the freedom to make the choice of whether we want to stay in or run to the store....

Here are pics of just some of our activities. I didn't want to bring my camera to the beach and forgot it when the kids were playing outside and feeding the animals :(

Turtle Back Zoo...waiting for the train:)

So excited! He was first in line and picked the seat he wanted in the wayyyy back.

She loved the zoo...for the first 10 minutes. Look Nana, a monkey!

They loved the exhibit where you can feed the birds. Thank goodness we caught one considering they didn't seem hungry at all.

Sadie's first carousel ride! She loooovvvveeeed it. Cried a lot when we took her off:)

Skyler has definitely learned to love it...he enjoyed it when he realized he would be ok:)

We had a tour of an old gristmill. SO cool. The kids were using a rock to make flour out of wheat seeds.

Checking out the working water wheel.

A little girl dressed in the time period clothes of when the mill was built. Sadie called her a princess:)