July Flies

 This color scheme was not planned!!

 Probably the highlight of his summer.

Its been a busy month and very hot July. Yesterday we climbed into the bathtub pool out back and it was hardly refreshing. The kids played in it like another day but it was almost as hot in the pool as it was out.
We have a few more weeks together before I return so we may sit down together in just a few minutes and make a list of things we would like to do together. Some of those things may have to wait until it cools off a bit, like the zoo, but I'm thinking for the most part we can get it all in.

Chalk It Up

 First Day of Preschool in September

So excited to sing for us this evening!!

School Performance

 Last Day of Preschool in May
(yep! Same outfit!)

Tiny Dancer....beautiful girl.

What a difference a year makes!!

Slow Down

Welcome Home 4th grader....also his birthday!!!

I've taken one of these two together every year on his
 birthday since she's been born

A very different pose from 9 years earlier....

    Sitting on the back porch at "the farm"

Every year when Braxton's birthday rolls around I become sentimental, more so than normal. I'm reminded that both of them are another year older and becoming more independent every day. I try to take each day and even amongst the hustle and bustle and busyness that life throws our way enjoy each moment and remind myself that it's going way too fast. I look through the photo albums and just want to cry.
 But I'm reminded that this is what life is about and no matter "how many" I have I'm going to feel that it's going to fast. I wish that it could all just slow down.....

 "Slow Down"

Here’s to you
You were pink or blue
And everything I wanted
Here’s to you
Never sleeping through
From midnight till the morning
Had to crawl before you walked
Before you ran
Before I knew it
You were trying to free your fingers from my hand
‘Cause you could do it on your own now somehow

Slow down
Won’t you stay here a minute more
I know you want to walk through the door
But it’s all too fast
Let’s make it last a little while
I pointed to the sky and now you wanna fly
I am your biggest fan
I hope you know I am
But do you think you can somehow
Slow down

Busy

This doesn't even touch the surface of how busy we've been or all that we've been into. One of my resolutions to myself this year is to be more diligent to this blog.When I'm asked about it, it makes me feel good that people care what the kids are up to. I love that I can look back and see this, kind of like a scrap book of their lives. But if I don't post the funny things they say or pictures of what's happening it's gone, forever. And that makes me very sad. As I've said many times before life is for sure busy but a day gone is a day I will never get back!