Huge Park Morning

Well our days are getting flipped around.  We are having to be outside in the morning and do school time in the afternoon.  So to a new park/splash pad.

It was a nice park.  We visited the splash pad first at 9:30 and then around 10:15 they were dressed and ready to try out the 3 playgrounds that were in walking distance.

We called this the "human wash".

Dumping buckets are great.

Check out that airborne move, leaping over the fountain.

Playground time...first stop was the jeep.

Then the dome swings.

This was actually fun.  Swinging towards each other without touching.

Next playground...the fire engine.

Climbing tower

Then the next playground...The purple one.

This slide was so tall, it made momma nervous for them. 

Plus, can you tell, it's METAL.  Yikes, they better go fast.

Aliana got as far as the top and then got scared, so I joined her.

If you can notice my face, it was STINKING HOT. I'm really glad that she didn't go down by herself.  She had a dress on and would have burned her bottom off.

Ok, I'm ready to move on kids. What's next!

Haha, next and last playground; the "blue & red one" that had a tent over the whole thing.

But, I don't think it matter at this point.  The humidity felt high and made the air feel much hotter.  I ended up having to put our drinking water over their heads.

Balancing on the lava stones.

Then crossing over to the spider web bed.

Finally up and over to the spider rainbow.

At this point, I noticed that the were sweating bad and had red molted faces.  TO THE CAR NOW!

Our time is up and we only spent 2 hours and 15 minutes at the park.  I was so glad that I had made the decision to go really early.

Pool Pests

This is one reason why we have been going through many pools this summer. 

The puppies like the water just as much as the kids do. 

Notice the top 2 layers of the pool are deflated.  The last one did survive, but it wasn't enough.  This was even after I fixed it this morning for the kids to swim in.  That evening it was stored away in the trash can.  Sorry kids!

Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens (part 1)

We attempted to see UT Arlington's Planetarium, but were disappointed to find out that it's just a showing and not a museum.  We will be back at the right time in the future.  So we left and went to the Botanical Gardens at 11:00 (HOT!)

You can see that the B.G. is growing a vine tee-pee. 

Love this idea!!

Here comes Mari (our next door babysitter who is leaving for college next week) and Aliana through the flowering tunnel.

Playing in a little fountain to cool off.

Checking out the coy fish and the waterfall (while momma's praying no one falls in-they like to see how close they can get....oh so nerve racking).

Skipping fish rocks.

We found a nice interactive Boardwalk for the kids. 

We learned alot.

Next time we come, we will visit the Rainforest and Japanese Gardens.

School Time Already!

This year Aliana gets school books too. 

 Her first day Alex was her teacher and they both did great.  He was patient and clear!

A little cream anyone?

To get the kids excited to go outside when it's 109' is a little difficult. So I thought they could paint each other with shaving cream and then go on the slip n' slide. 

It worked out pretty well!

Baby Brother

Awww, this is my baby brother, Phil and his girlfriend, Kelli.  They have been dating for almost 1 year. 

This is such a good picture I had to share and now possibly frame.

Surprise Ranger Game

Mark and all these guys surprised their friend, Michael-in the back to the right wearing the Rangers shirt, on his birthday and took him to a Rangers Game.  It was a fun night he said.  The majority of the guys go to our church so it's really fun to socialize with them as well as worship with them.

Water Fun

We visited another splash pad. 

And there is yet another one planned for Monday.

We love that all the ones we visit are different in some way.

Tony's going through the "human wash"

On a different day we had a pool playdate at a friends house.

Beautiful isn't!!

The rocks that you see in the middle and on both side are waterfalls.  I LOVED the sound.  This is my oasis...water.

That's Alex on the right in the red shorts.  He's swimming so well.  I'm so glad that this was the year that swimming just clicked.

VBS Week

We had our first VBS ever and it was great.  I taught the bible verse memorization's and music to all the preschoolers...47 of them!

Alex is in the back to the right have snack time with his class, the Grizzly bears.

Preparing all the name nags for the preschoolers.

And then getting ready to pray all together.

There were so many adults that came together to make this an awesome week for the community kids.

Praying before we start our day.

Isn't this precious.  They totally understand.

Gathering together in the sanctuary to have songs, prayer and get information before braking off into our bear groups.

Aliana and her friend, Kaylie

Isn't it wonderful to see so many children of God worshiping together.

We ending up having 175 kids, nursery to 6th grade.

Luke, Lacy, Alex, Tony, Aliana and Troy

Some more friends of ours.

People kept saying that Lacy (16 months) and Aliana (3.5 yrs) could be sisters. 

I think it might be the shape of the eyes and the skin tone.

See ya Troy, I had fun!

Every day we learned a new song along with the theme song that we did every morning.

This is a music sample of the songs.  I added links below so all the kids will be able to dance along with the music.

Awesome songs to learn with your kids.  It is Awesome Worship Time.

Cool Cool Summer

God Will Meet All Your Needs
Forever A Safe Place
We Wait In Hope for The Lord
It is Written
This is How We Know