June Pictures and a Bucket List Update

I am catching up on my June pictures that never made it to my online scrapbook otherwise known as this blog!!

First, when we went to Disney we went to rented a home with a pool.  Because there was eight of us and we were not doing the whole week at Disney experience, a rented home was the better choice.  A bonus was the house had a pool and a game room.  I am pretty sure that they boys and the girls on some level wanted to stay for a long time!  It was lovely and I did feel very spoiled to open my bedroom door and take ten steps to a pool!

At home I had to take the cutest picture of my sweet girls as we left for church.

We did another bucket list activity and made homemade ice cream.  We used rock salt in the baggie thing and it was lots of fun.  It was also a huge mess.  Salt water was all over the kitchen floor!  Our friend Braden was over and he made some with the kiddos as well.

Elena and Samuel helped picked the blueberries and tomatoes.  They love to do that!

Our van hit 100,000 miles on our way to Disney.  I hope it has a few more in it since we are leaving for our East Coast tour in two days!

And perhaps my favorite pictures all month was one I took of us.  It was so hilarious trying to fit us all in, but we did it.  I love this picture because everyone is just so happy!

I cannot believe it is July already!  Where is the summer going?

Our harvest

Well, summer is here.  It has not yet arrived on the calendar, but that has not stopped Mother Nature.  It is now pretty consistently 90ish degrees and humid.  I just really dislike summer in Houston and that is probably why I leave for most of the summer.  I cannot stand how hot it gets here.

I stop going to parks unless it is at 8am.  It is too hot.  The kids eventually don't even ask to go outside anymore.  Our favorite activity in the summer is swimming.  I am so glad we don't have our own pool.  I would never do any housework if we did.  But, we do have two neighborhood pools within walking distance (we never do because it is too hot)!

We started our summer "all we do is go to the pool" this weekend.  I am so glad my kiddos love to swim and never tire of going to the pool.

Only Jonah needs to be wrapped in a towel when it is 90 degrees!

Emma's friends were at the pool which was great!

When we finally went home, Samuel and Drew discovered our plants were going gang busters with food.  I love, love, love fresh foods from the garden.  I am so happy to have these guys in my salads for weeks to come!

Blueberries for our fruit salads

Homegrown cucumber and cherry tomatoes

The large tomatoes are still getting ripe.  We also have lots of herbs.  We would have asparagus if Yuengling would stop eating it.  I don't know why Drew didn't plant lettuce.  Regardless, fresh veggies are awesome and we are always so sad to eat the store stuff at the end of the summer!