the pool & a police picnic

so we have family passes to the pool this summer because it came with our Courts Plus membership and we are excited to use them!
did you know you can get icees there for only 25 cents??  how great is that!

we are looking forward to tons of water fun this summer(if it stays hot that is!)

then this evening we headed to Island Park for the annual Police Picnic- free chips, ice cream, entertainment, and fun!

these drummers were from Africa- they were so talented!!
everyone was mezmorized.

MB and I got henna tattoos- she LOVED that :)

the Marines had a chin up bar station and if you could do 20 you won a tshirt.
not surprisingly Mary Beth wanted to give it a go(even though it was only grown men that we saw participating thus far!) and wouldn't you know it that little peanut did it!!  no one could believe it- except her family- of course we know how strong she is!

sadly they were out of tshirts so after all that works she just got a lanyard!  oh well.
we were all proud of her!

Jeffrey and John gave it a go then... they did great but didn't hit the 20 mark.

 

The end of the night showcased some wonderful Native American dancing but they hurried up and we kinda ran to the car because a big thunderstorm was heading in.
Can't wait to go again next year- we always have so much fun at this event!

summer list

summer is almost over and we've been having lots of fun. in the beginning of summer we always make up a list of stuff we want to do over the next 3 months and the kids have fun checking them off as we go...notice almost all that's left is the the HARD stuff!

golf

today was Mickey's first day of golf lessons... we think this will be a sport he will love
for 2 reasons: the outfits and the slow, individualized pace

UPDATE: Mickey does indeed heart golf and Jeffrey decided to take lessons with him-
thereby adding a 3rd reason for Mickey to love it

science museum of Minnesota

on our last day in the cities we visited the science museum with Jenny and Paul(sadly I have no pictures of them there!)

the boys participated in a lab experiment about cheek cells(gross but interesting)

they were saying "when we grow up we are going to be scientist brothers"

then they all did experiments with estimating and a catapult
they were launching cats- get it? cats... catapult?
Mickey is the only one who got it in our family :)

there are so many cool things to do there- if you haven't gone you must!

more pictures of the trip coming soon!

chalk humor

The kids got a hilarious Klutz book from the book fair a while back. They immediately tried out a bunch of the ideas around our house. It's taken me this long to post them(I've been having TONS of trouble with blogger lately- that's the reason I'm so behind with about a million posts!)

those little rocks all have faces on them(scared faces)

get it? Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall...

Mickey turned this rock into a mouse- and that's the mouse hole.

This is by an ant hill. It was supposed to say rabid ants but it works this way also!

snake coming up between the sidewalks

here's the head:

I highly recommend this book- it's hilarious and full of cute ideas for summer chalk fun!