Summertime

This summer hasn't truly started yet and July is coming to an end.

For some reason this year the rainy season decided to stay past Spring and all through summer. For two months it has been wet here. Usually by this point the weather is hot, hot, humid. So much so that children hide in the house all day every day. But this year they've been in the house to avoid the rain fall. Sometimes they go play in the rain and come home soaking wet. But even when it's not raining the ground is often soaked through.  

However, we've been getting bits of summer when we can...

Athena played in the kiddie pool a few times when it was hot out and not raining. She enjoyed blowing bubbles one afternoon as well.

 At daycamp at our house we had an Unbirthday party and the kids decorated their own little cakes.
Our next door neighbors had been participating in daycamp but decided to quit to prevent them getting the Corona Virus. So on this particular day we invited Brandon and Lumen to join us. Brandon couldn't but Lumen came over.

 We go to the natatorium for free swim once a week. We usually take some friends with us. Ty brought Escher and Luke brought Ethan. Athena prefers to play alone in the pool or to play with her mom. She brings me toys and tells me the pretend story of how we are playing. She loves to talk these days ! She goes on and on and on.
She also likes to pretend to be sea creatures and has me toss balls far away for her to fetch in the water.

 I have continued selling cakes this summer:

 On Pioneer day I made Athena dress one last time in this outfit I sewed her a couple years ago. She won't fit in it next summer. She's such a cute pioneer girl! She wore this to church that weekend.

 Currently the goal in our house is to eat healthy all week and share a dessert on the weekend. We started it off with Nutella croissants. We purchased the croissants from a bakery off base because my croissants don't come out flaky like this.

 Ster bought some sea snails to cook and eat. They were still alive!!
Athena said, just before helping dad cook them, "We are going to be mean by eating them." She wasn't sad about it. She knows how life works.

 Brandon, Lumen, Tiberias, Ethan, Luke and Athena at the swim center: