Our summer at the pools!

We've been enjoying the summer time at the pool. We have so many great pools around us and have also been to James and Heathers pools a few times.

Jayven has been loving the water. He likes to just sit in it and splash around. 

And Jessalyn's favorite thing to do at the pool is to jump in to daddy when he is with us. She also love the puppy slide and the fishy slide.

Jayven borrowed Krew's crab floaty toy when grandma and grandpa were in town and had a blast in it.

Here's the fishy slide! At first she was a little scared of it because it looks like a whale but she warmed up to it pretty fast.

Jayven went down with my help but wasn't sure how he felt about it.

Jess spent the past two weeks taking swimming lessons at the "fishy pool". Today was her last day and she had to take her baby so she could watch.

She was the mischievous one in her class of 3 other little ones. Jayven and I sat back and watched and I don't know how many times I would hear her tala her call Jessalyn's name. She looked like she might have been the youngest one in her class. Even though she has a mind of her own she still gets the job done and learned some useful things. 

 Usually Jayven would sit in the grass with me to watch sister but he decided he wanted to sleep through it on the last day.

This has been my view the past 2 weeks. And you can spot Jess in the water. She's the one farthest away from everyone doing her own thing. Haha.

And on the last day they took everyone to the big slides. I was hoping to catch Jess on her way down but she chickened out. I figured she might have and I kept trying to wave at her to come down. Instead one of the lifeguards held her the whole time while all the other kids went down. Maybe next time.

At the end she got this certificate and some candy. 

Deanna Rose with Grandma and Grandpa

We went out to Deanna Rose Farmstead with grandma, grandpa, Heather and the boys yesterday. It's been about a year or two since we've been there. I don't know why. It's so close and such a fun place for kids. 

We tried to get pictures with grandma before we went in but Amadeus wasn't having it! 

We did a lot of walking and Jess was tired so she shared the stroller with baby brother. They are so cute together!

It was Jayven and Amadeus's first time there. 

They loved looking at all the animals!!

One of Jessalyn's favorite parts was feeding the goats.

Even grandpa got in on the action.

Amadeus was loving the goats too!

Jayven had a good time watching the goats with grandpa.

Jayven had too much fun and passed out  halfway through.

We ended with playing at the playground. Everyone had a blast! 

Meeting the Princesses

Last weekend there was an event that was held in Olathe where you can meet Anna and Elsa and take pictures with them. I didn't know much about it but decided to surprise Jess and go. I was not expecting it to be as busy as it was but we had to park across the street and the line was out the door when we got there. 

I only told Jess we were going to get something to eat because they were serving chickfila there. As we were waiting in line she got a peak of some other princesses that I wasn't expecting to see. She was confused and excited at the same time. 

It took us about an hour to get to Rapunzel, and Jasmine and Belle and Cinderella. She was too shy to take a picture with Rapunzel. I was a little afraid that waiting in line might be a waste since she was too scared to even say hi to Rapunzel. But she was mor excited to see jasmine and actually got down and took a picture with her. She was excited despite the terrified look on her face. Haha.

I had to join her to get a picture with Cinderella.

And she was brave brave enough to sit next to belle. 

Then we waited in line for about 40 more minutes to meet Anna and Elsa. I don't think they did the greatest representation of them but Jess was pleased. She would not get close to them without me so I had to get in on the picture. 

Royals game 2014

A couple Fridays ago we went to a royals baseball game. We go every year for Cleveland chiropractic days. It was Jessalyn's 4th game and Jayven's first game. 

 

We enjoyed it althought it was very hot. 

You can tell how hot it was by Jess's Rosie cheeks and sweaty hair.

We went with James and Heather and the boys and some other friends from their ward. 

Noah was having fun with Jayven and kept trying to make him laugh.

They were hanging out some royals tattoos so I got one and put it on my cheek. Jess put hers on her arm.

Here's all the crazies minus two baby boys! 

Jayven was so exhausted from all th action that he fell asleep on uncle James and took a good long nap. This is a shock considering he doesn't even let anyone hold him for more than a minute without wanting mommy or daddy.

I made Jess's dress the day before the game. I was looking for a shirt for her to wear that didn't cost a lot since she would most likely only wear it once. Since I couldn't find one then I bought a little piece of royals fabric for $2 and cut out the royals sign and sewed it onto a shirt that I got for $1. I had some white fabric a home already so I just sewed it onto the shirt and voila! There's her girly outfit for the baseball game for a total of $3! And I've had her royals bow since her first game. 

Jayven saw his first fireworks and he didn't cry! He pretty much had this look on his face the whole time! He was really just trying to figure it out.he wanted to sur next to sister halfway through and held into her arm for most of it.