Field Day

I forgot to post this...it should have been a few posts earlier, since it was for his last day of Kindergarten....right before summer.

oops, better late than never :)

I volunteered to help with Kindergarten's field day.  I helped with the games.  It was fun, but a little sad.  Cameron knew it was his last time seeing most of these kids.  He wouldn't get going to first grade at Rosecreek and so he wouldn't be moving on with this group of friends.  He was good friends with Jackson.

Reese and Ella live in our neighborhood and go to our church, so luckily he will still see them often.

Good Ol' tug of war game.  

Last picture with Mrs. Elder.  Cameron sure liked her.  She was a great teacher.  

Swimming with friends

We went swimming at Cameron's friend, Jayden's grandma's a few times this summer.  The kids had lots of fun.  I don't know if Mackenzie had more fun running around outside of the pool or swimming in it.  She was doing both :)

Cameron loves to dive for rings and even swims down to the bottom of the deep end to get them.  He is quite the swimmer!

Mackenzie used to jump of the diving board to me, but then she discovered if she had on the life jacket thing, she could jump in by herself.  She did that about 50 times...

I wish we had a pool in our back yard!  I sure was one lucky little kid to grow up with a swimming pool...and I sure miss it!!

Getting pampered :)

 Mackenzie loves to have me paint her nails and do her hair.  But she really loves to do my hair and paint my nails too.  So pretty much every morning I get my hair done by her.  Today she painted my toenails.  They were beautiful!

Bowling time

 Yay for kids bowl free day!  We went with some friends and had lots of fun!

 I swear it took Mackenzie's ball 10 minutes to creep down the lane.  She insisted in rolling it herself and not using the "helper thing". LOL

Cameron had quite the bowling arm.

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Swim lessons

 Mackenzie and Cameron loved taking swimming lessons this summer.  They were so sad when the 8 sessions ended.  My friend from high school was Cameron's teacher and her daughter was Mackenzie's teacher.  They had class at the same time...Kenzie in the shallow end and Cameron in the deep end.  It worked out perfect for me!

After lessons they always loved to play on the zip line.  It was super awesome!  You had to climb up the ladder to the treehouse and then get on the seat and jump from there....the zip line went across their yard to the tree and then it would bring you half way back.  They loved it!

Playing

 Playing at the park while brother is in school.

 We just finished volunteering n Cameron's kindergarten class (every Wednesday) and Kenzie always likes to play on his "big" playground afterwards. 

Brave little girl was at instacare a day before because we thought she broke her wrist or forearm.  She was wrestling with Cameron and Spencer and came inside crying.  She woke up every hour that night crying all night.  So I took her in the morning to the Dr.  They did an x-ray and thought it looked like a buckle fracture, but weren't totally sure.  So instead of putting a cast on it that day, he gave her a little brace.  If it didn't get better in a week then we were supposed to go back for a cast.  Luckily it got better!

Happy day to this Father

Happy Father's Day daddy!!  Cameron made this cute tie at school.  It had his picture on it.  So fun!  

The primary kids sang to the dads.  It was Mackenzie's first time going on stage to sing with the primary (she was supposed to for Mother's Day, but she didn't want to).

 After church we had a whobilation dinner at our house to celebrate.  Of course all we did was sit around and laugh!

I am extremely grateful for my dad and everything he has done for me.  He is the most generous, kind, thoughtful, gentle, funny, caring, hardworking, man I know.  I am blessed to call him dad.  I love you!  I am also grateful for Jeremy and the daddy he is to our kids.  They love him and enjoy spending time with them and learning from him.

So thoughtful

I try to teach my kids to be kind and thoughtful.  Several times I have had them help me to leave a treat and note for the mail lady.  Usually around holidays or something.  So, it makes me happy when I see my kids do things like this all on their own.  Cameron will randomly want to leave the mail lady notes.  So he asked for paper and an envelope. Then I saw him writing this note.  He picked out this treat to leave with it.  LOL  

These two!

I love summer!  I love the these two playing together.  Little Dallin loves Mackenzie and wants to play with her everyday.  She had fun at his house playing in this pool.

My job

January 2015, Jeremy had been out of a job for two months now...and the job front wasn't looking too good.  So, I decided to go back to work.  After all, I had my LCSW and had been keeping up my liscense.  I got a job as a school social worker for Diamond Ridge Elementary.   I HATED to leave my kids and struggled to find people to watch them.  After a few quirks and plans of who could watch them falling through...I ended up having my sisters help!!  They were amazing and I felt sooo much more comfortable leaving them for work.  I quickly learned to love the job.  It was such a great job and a wonderful experience.  However, I still hated working and not being there for my kids after school.  Even though I worked part time, I still felt like I was missing out on being there for them and having to juggle a lot.  So I made the decision to not return the following year.  However, it was a great job and one that I would return to any day (when my kids grow up of course!)  I am a stay at home mommy at heart :)

I ran a few groups for kids with ADHD and other disorders.  I thought it was fun to come up with things to do in groups.  I had 3 boys that loved video games and that was all they talked about.  So, I decided to make a handout about what we are in control of and how we can control ourselves etc.  They thought the lesson was cool, but sure made fun of my "ancient" remote drawing.  I guess the remotes have changed a lot since I used to play video games! 

One day we had a crazy wind/rain storm.  The power went out and it was chaos.  A bunch of us ran outside to help with flying objects.  This trampoline happened to blow over the fence several houses down and managed to hit a few cars along the way!  I took a picture before I ran out to help :)

 

My office :)  I like to put these "take a compliment" papers outside my office.  The kids loved them, and I would usually have to put out several a day.  They were always gone fast.  Then I would have kids knocking on my door asking for compliments!  Lol

I loved the quotes I put up in my office.  I decided to leave them there for the next social worker who worked there.  They are too good to take down!

Another one of my favorite things was going around to the classrooms and doing "prevention" work and class presentations.  I did this with the 1-3rd grades.  I read the book "the crayon box that talked" and then I had each kid make a crayon representing themselves.  Then I put them all in the crayon box I made.  The idea was that we are all different, like a box of crayons, but without all of us the picture would be boring and incomplete!  I hope I made a difference in at least one persons life while at work there.  I loved all the cute kids.  It's sad to know the crap and hard times that a lot of kids have to go through and deal with.