Slipping through my fingers

I can't believe we only have two weeks until school starts again. Summer goes waaay too quickly in my opinion. Though I won't miss the nearly constant arguing that happens during the break, I will miss seeing my girls more often and having them around for some extra company. There's just nothing better than lazy summer nights and hot summer days. Here are some pictures of our recent activities.
On Sunday Claire and Mallory wanted to be twiners in these dresses and with their hair dos. Which reminded me that Libbie and Mia did the same thing so we had to take some pictures. And I threw in a throw back of the older girls too. Awww. Quit growing now! Before I get really depressed I better stop writing...the end of summer approaching and my kids are getting old. Barf.
Mallory and Claire in the dresses.

Libbie and Mia in the dresses.

Libbie is looking so grown up lately it's creepy. And Jaren is looking...well creepy in this picture. Ha ha.

Libbie took this funny picture of Mia before church the other day.


One afternoon when we had Caden and Macy over we went to a little splash pad. "Little" being the key word. As we pulled up the kids said, "This looks boring." While I do think they had some fun, it certainly didn't last very long. But here are some fun photos of our time there.





Nathan ordered an x-large pepperoni pizza from one of our favorite pizza joints. When he went to pick it up they said, "Oh, you are the one." "The second one tonight to order an 'Oh my heck pizza!'" We were wishing they would have told us this information when he ordered. The box barely fit through the door to our house. Here is Mia showing you her "I am afraid of this pizza it's so big" face.

We had a fun Pioneer Day celebration at our house when Grandma, Papa, Rachel, Brennan, Caleb, Marci, and "the boys" came for a visit. After some backyard baseball and an ice cream treat, we went to the front yard for some serious sparkler action.





Aunt Rachel corralling Jaren during all the sparkler fun.