I decided to try something different this summer! Usually me and a couple friends go to lunch, usually on Wednesday. After going to a very chaotic McDonalds a couple weeks ago I decided I would LOVE to stay away from that mess. So I am going to take the kids to a different park every week to have a picnic and play! The first one was Liberty Park. It was a blast! We had a picnic and then the kids played around on the splash pad. They weren't too happy with it at first because there were TONS of older kids there for field trips and they were hogging the play area. So once they were gone they enjoyed it more!!
After a bit we walked around trying to see if there was any other water to play in. We found a cute pond with ducks and fish.
Then the kids came across this fountain and before we knew it they were ALL in it swimming around. It was funny...they wanted to swim so bad that we just let them go at it for a few minutes. To give you an idea...at one point there were 12 kids in there!
The day wouldn't be complete without delicious snow cones. There was a little stand at the end of the park by where we parked our cars. The enormous small cup was only $1.50. Kaitlyn cracked me up because she kept saying "I picked the messy kind...it keeps jumping of my cup all over me". Her legs were covered in rootbeer syrup. Jenica and Alicia didn't want to be too close to her for the picture even. So they were sitting on the clean side of the bench.
It's pretty safe to say that I usually make a nice breakfast on Sunday mornings, if not then we have breakfast for lunch after church! I try to make a variety of different things, but most often it seems to be pancakes...or as the girls say: pana-cakes! There were a couple left this particular day so I decided to let the boys have at it! They loved them! {Jonathan is in the striped onesie and Julian is in the paw print one...even though you can't really see that much detail}
Here's a video I took of the bubba's taking a bath a couple weeks ago! They loooove their baths! I usually have to drape a towel over myself or I am soaked from all their splashing! :)
After we were done at Emerald Bay we kept driving up the California side for a bit. We ran into a neighborhood up on the mountain. We don't know if people actually live there or if they are all vacation homes. So we drove through all these houses and kept taking the roads up and up and up until we couldn't go up the mountain any more. The view was beautiful, the pictures don't do it any justice! It was really steep and we were really up there...I wish the pictures illustrated that. So with the camera out of commission...it was a little difficult to do a self picture with the phone. It took a couple tries to get us both in the picture! :)
