I realized a couple weeks ago that the last post I had done was on the last day of school! That just shows you how BUSY and CrAzY our summer was!!! I am too behind to post everything, however will do a couple posts on some trips we took. Our summer was sooooo fun!!! We spent almost every.single.day at the pool!! Our neighborhood has 2 pools and loads of friends are always there. It was even more special this year since Brent, Hannah, and Emmett moved in the neighborhood and would often meet us at the pool. Every afternoon after lunch we would pack a very large snack bag and another bag of things like goggles, snorkels and various toys they wanted to use, and pile in the HoeferMobile and go to the pool!
The kids would swim and swim and swim and then eat snacks and play on the play structure next to the pool, and eat a snack, and stand in the shower, and swim, and fight with a sibling or neighbor kid, and swim, and pretend to be mermaids, and eat a snack, and dance on the side, and play Olympics, and eat a snack, etc etc. I found as long as I had several varieties of snacks that we could stay usually at least 3-4 hours!! I would literally lay there, chat with friends, occasionally read, chat with friends, sip on beverages, and eat snacks. NICE!
The crazy part of the summer, besides keeping 4 kids happy and trying to keep up with the house and laundry, was Scott was gone A LOT. So I was on my own quite a bit, which is sooooo much easier than it used to be, but still can be challenging. Thankfully I have Hannah who helps me when I need it, a good friend down the road who is always willing to lend a hand and help out with running kids places or watching kids (she even took kids to the dentist one day!), and a great babysitter who we used a lot. She bought an Ipad with babysitting money in the middle of the summer!! So between everyone it went quite well! Although I will say this is the first year I didn't cry on the first day of school!!! Longest summer ever since they got out May 25!!
