Saturday, August 17, 2013

Date nights with Aaron and Livia!

Our date nights this month have been so fun with the kids individually! They each have different personalities and different likes/dislikes.....it is so much fun to spend time with them one on one!
Aaron's date was last weekend.  For dinner he chose Texas Roadhouse. YUM! We all got steaks and had a great meal together.




It just happened to be the "Parade of Homes" weekend....which I really enjoy going to....so Aaron got to go with us! I didn't know how he'd like it, but he really had a fun time with us. He's a good sport!


And then of course shopping. :)  Boys are sooooo easy to shop for! Comfy shorts and shirts, and a pair of pants. We'd already gotten him shoes..... a trip to Walmart and we were done. Good job Aaron! What a fun date!

Yesterday we had our date night with Livia. She is so much fun to be with! She is so kindhearted, she wants to make everyone feel good.  And she was exhausted before the date even started.......hahaha


She kept saying she wanted to go to the place with "mozzarella sticks" :)  so we went to Applebees. And she was all smiles to get her mozzarella sticks! 


We had just gone through all of our clothes that Ella had and ones that people had given us and we decided that Livia has WAY TOO MANY CLOTHES!!! So---instead we went shoe shopping! Shoe shopping with a 4 year old is hilarious! She had to try on every shoe, and then still couldn't make up her mind. And since we were in no hurry---it was fun to just sit back and watch her have fun with shoe shopping.
 She picked out some cute ones!


 And then off to Walmart of course. We got some fun art supplies that she'll need for her Kindergarten curriculum and she got to go grocery shopping with us. And she loved it. It was nice to have her there :)

 Our latest tradition with these date nights is that we discovered that Sonic does half price milkshakes after 8 o'clock! YES!! So we get milkshakes every date night. :)  Thanks for the fun night Livia!!!


Monday, August 5, 2013

summer pictures from my phone :)

We've been having a nice, relaxed summer here. We love having no schedules and love being outside! (I love being inside in air conditioning in the afternoon though!) So here are a few pictures that were on my phone that I thought I'd share..........

Livia and Preston decided they wanted to be the in tree climbing club.....hehe

I made some YUMMY raspberry freezer jam! Our friends let us pick from their patch every year, and we take advantage of it!

Livia learned to ride without training wheels! She's way up ahead in this picture and Preston is trying to keep up.  He's been doing pretty good at pedaling though.  We try to go for a bike ride every morning. (I walk slowly behind them)  

Can you see the great horned owl in the tree?! This was fun to see on our ride!


                                                               And we've been to several small town parades. We LOVE parades! :) The kids get stocked up on candy for the year.  Then I hide it, so they forget about it. hehe


 Adam's dad turned..........  Well, let's just say he's still "less than" 60.  For now!

 The kids have had several attempts at sleeping outside in the tents but keep chickening out around midnight.


Our niece Callie has been staying with us this summer, and I took her to get her haircut one morning. Cute!


 Another parade.....I love the smiles!
They got to go on a wagon ride---that was the highlight of the day!





 Me and my love.........


 Every weekend in August we are taking each kid out on a date to go school shopping :)  Ashton got to go first! Chinese food, shoe shopping and then we found the rest at Walmart.  I love it when it's that easy!