"CARNY RATS"

who doesnt love a carnival!

okay a lot of people! but we love it!

at least the kids and i,

we are lucky enough to have

a loving supportive husband and father

who may not love it like we do,

but comes and secretly enjoys himself!!

we love what the carnival means to us!

its signifies that summer has begun,

we love spending time together,

we love riding the rides,

looking at the booths,

and those scones are to die for!!

oh yeah, thats a good look boys!

getting ready to hit the rides!

"faster, faster, faster!!!!!!"

"i wanna puke!! keep going!!"

only two brave souls dared to do the "RING O FIRE!"

can you say flexible!!

wow seattul, ballet has payed off!!

BOYS WILL BE BOYS!

yep thats my boy!

we were in the back yard and we came across this snake!

so of course oakley thought it would be

soooo awesome

to test out his skill and see if he could hit it with his BB gun!

oh yeah he got it!

kannon our dog was curious in what was going on.

he was chasing it as oakley drug it across the grass!

it was quite comical!!

"CINDERELLA"

well as some of you may know seattul takes ballet at "academy of ballet" we love it and she loves it too! at the end of every year they do a very large production play. it is super fun to see how hard the kids work on it and how much they enjoy the attention! this was seattuls 5th year to be in one of these plays so this was her second opportunity to be in cinderella. she has gotten to play two different roles since the first time she was only 3 years old! wow how time flies! when she was 3 she was a cute little bluebird and this year she was a mouse! great job seattul!

this was taken on stage during dress rehearsal, no flash photography allowed during actual play! seattul is the third one in on the front row.

seattul all ready to go in her costume!

make up on and ready for pictures!

ME RUN A 5K? NO WAY!

ya thats what i thought but believe it or not it was possible! this is how i kicked off my summer! too bad the motivation didnt last all summer! i ran the 5k at the start of art city days. i did okay, i think my time was 30 min and some odd seconds, cant remember. i wanted to improve all summer and run like 2 a month, but you know what happen...work, have fun with kids, work, have fun with kids... seems like a repeated pattern all summer!! oh well i think the kids had a fun summer and i did too! maybe just maybe next year i will do better and maybe there are some fellow bloggers out there that have some similiar goals! come on lets motivate each other!!

am i panting?! no way!!

my kids were so proud and

i was happy to be done!!