The many faces of swimming lessons achievement

Hannah is proudly holding her level 3 "Frogs" achievement certificate.   "Momma, the Nemo sticker means I swim like a fish!"
Nathan...yes, that was his pose when i asked him to hold up the paper and smile.  :)

oh, it's torture to smile, Momma...
Thank you, Nathan!  

The kids did exceptionally well with their swim lessons the past two weeks.  The kids are both holding their breath while putting their faces in the water.  Hannah has learned to float and glide and both are doing well using their arms to stroke while kicking.  Nathan jumps in fearlessly (on mommy's 1-2-3 of course!) and both of them dive for rings in shallow water.   It was a busy two weeks...oh, did i mention we've been potty training these two weeks also?!  

Watermelon it

Surveying the territory...
going in for the kill...
you can tell the boy hasn't missed any meals...
savoring...
Hannah...a sweeter approach to enjoying the melon...
...but no less noisy...(slurp!!!)
And a rinse in the pool...now THAT'S how you enjoy summer!!!

Tow-heads

Recently, we had a wonderful trip to New Braunfels/San Antonio. Ben preached in New Braunfels so we made a long weekend of it and met some RUF families at Sea World. We managed to leave our camera in the car so we didn't get Shamu on camera but we had a great time of fellowship. We got to spend one of the nights with our sweet friends Justin and Elizabeth and their cute boys (above). Their kids are very close in age to our kids so we had alot of chaos in common. :)

Summer RUF is up and running!

In the meantime, the kids and I are having lots of fun trying to stay creative and quiet in the next room. :)