Swimming and Father's Day

Corbin finished his first week of swim lessons. I love watching him swim. We also went swimming for several hours with Anna and her kids twice last week. Anna has access to a neighborhood pool right by her parent's house so she invited us to come as well. On Wednesday Scott was home so I left Ryan and Piper to nap and took the older kids. On Thursday he was gone so I took all the kids. They did really well especially since it was both Piper and Ryan's nap time. They had a blast. They have a great kiddie pool that Gabby and Piper lived in. I even had Ryan swim for the first time. He was a trooper. I think he liked it. He didn't cry so that's good. The water wasn't too cold so that was nice. Other than that this week we mostly went to the park, rode our bikes, and did yard work.

We broke down and had our carpets cleaned on Friday. They were so disgusting! Unfortunately Ryan still spits up 500 times a day. For the last two days we've been keeping him mostly in the kid room but I mean really how long can that last? Especially since he can army crawl himself right out of there. He somehow managed to barf a few times in the front room even though he was on the carpet for like 2 minutes. Ryan! (The carpet for now looks so much better)!

Last night our friends invited us over for dinner. That was a good time. It's kind of hard to actually communicate with each other when there are 7 kids under 6 but we did alright. 

For Father's Day I made Scott a candy graham poster. I love those things. I got one from my aunt Alison when I got baptized and I thought it was the best! I made Scott his favorite breakfast casserole for breakfast. For dinner he cooked his own ribs and he did a good job too. I don't really like ribs but I tasted a bite and they were good. We also had his favorite zebra dessert afterwards. I'm sure glad my kids have a great dad. It seems like a luxury these days.

Happy Fathers Day to my father in law and my dad. I told my kids they had a posterity of great dads. Scott's dad is very generous and diligent. He is an amazing grandfather. My dad is my hero. He is the hardest worker I know. He is true blue through and through. I think I've always been a bit of a daddy's girl. I would stay up late at night and watch TV with him. I remember going with him to Jerome to the cattle sale. We would go to the auction and then get burgers afterward. When I was in college he drove down to San Diego with me and when we were driving through Southern California he started telling me all kinds of mission stories. Good times. Love you dad!

Kids:
Piper can give some serious dirty looks. She knows it too. Lately when she's been doing it she says, "I'm dirty look." Another thing she's been doing is if she has a time out as soon as she gets out she says, "I was freaking out. I was rude." She also likes to say everything is amazing. At swim lessons someone went down the slide and she squealed with delight and yelled, "that was amazing!" Oh Piper! Funny girl.

Gabby: "A bee was by me." Corbin: "It probably thought you were a flower." Gabby: "but I wasn't, I was a human."

Big boy! I love this Stinky Pete.

Ryan first time swimming. My hat looks so much more glamorous in my head. Oh well! It was sweet to wear in the water. For real!

There is a book series called "Fancy Nancy." I love it because Nancy is just like Gabby. Such a girly girl!