A Day With the Mitchums

Wow, you know I was just looking over my blog.  Actually, I’m killing time between when I put the kids to bed (8pm) and the time they actually stay in bed (hopefully soon).  As soon as I’m assured this has happened we’re watching a MOVIE!!  Chris is at work, so Jen and I have a chick flick

Oh and for the title to this post.  I realized that I never did put the rest of those pictures up here.  And since I’m in love with them and plan on ordering at least one of them HUGE…you should see them.  So here are a couple of my absolute fav’s

 

 

 

Well I know I’ve not updated in a long while.  So I guess this should be long.  Ashley is still at her dad’s, and we cannot wait until she comes home.  In the meantime, we’ve been working in the yard - which I might add isn’t that easy to do with one good hand.  I’ll have to post some pictures of the yard, Jen says it’s Cozy. 

I’ve also been working on some more sketches.  I am going to get some watercolor paints and work with those next.  In the meantime, here is something a little more "mod"  what do you think?

 

I call it - a place for swinging 

In the meantime, I’ll post some new pictures of the kids soon.  They’ve been busy in the splash pool, eating popscicles, oh and we cannot forget - imaginary trips to the moon (aka, the back corner of our lawn)

We had a great weekend!  We went to Key West with our friends and their children.  We couldn’t have asked for a better day.  It went by too quickly, of course.  We went to the base for their celebration, or the "really huge party" as we described to the kids.  First, we went to Dairy Queen.  It is such a rare treat for my children, that they didn’t even know what the place was when we pulled up.  They quickly figured it out though, hehe.  It was a little messy, but oh so worth it.  Nothing is better than ice cream on a hot summer day.

Here’s Kaitlyn, not so patiently waiting on her ice cream.

 

And here’s one of each of the kids enjoying a Blizzard - might actually be Kaitlyn’s first blizzard.

 

 

After the ice cream, we headed over to the big party.  They loved the big waterslide, it was huge!  Riley climbed up and went down one side, and Kaitlyn got help from daddy for the other side. 

 

Then they played on the bounce house, which I don’t have pictures of because Kaitlyn made me get in that thing.  She loved it.  Riley loved it.  Let’s just say they could have stayed in that thing all day long.  Then we ate lunch, yummy!  And we hung out on the playground.

 

 

 

Libby handing out with her daddy!

 

And relaxed cloud watching - at least for a minute or two haha.

 

Then we went over to the beach and watched the fireworks over the ocean.  It was so beautiful, and relaxing.  The children weren’t afraid of the booms from the fireworks.  And Kaitlyn described the fireworks as "so cute"  It was really ended up being one of the best days.