June with Hannah!

June started with lots of swimming. Colt finished swim lessons and does great swimming with the big girls now. Ellie liked her lessons and now kicks around the pool with her floatie on and will jump in sometimes. She really loves to jump right on the sunbench on her belly and scoot herself across it pretending that she is swimming while saying "kick, kick, kick" the whole time. 

Eric sold his favorite truck, F-150 Lightning, and was sad to see it go. 

 So precious :)

The kids made a club upstairs in the corner. I don't know what they do up there but they include Colt and they all seem happy about it so it works out well. Their junk collection has tripled in the club since I took this picture! Eric is a member of their club but I was never invited in, figures!

After the lake house trip Hannah came back with us to spend two weeks with us. We did a few things but I am getting bad about pictures so this is all we have!

We went to the library to read to dogs, the older kids all got a turn and Colt and Ellie drove me nuts while we waited for them!

We went to the jump place and did lots of swimming. The girls went to a vacation Bible school for one week but Hannah stayed home with Colt and Ellie and I. The girls all played barbies a lot we had some friends over for swimming. They learned about the "would you rather" game and laughed a lot with that one. 

Sweet and funny Ellie....

Overly cautious Ellie! Cracks me up sometimes!

And of course we did fireworks! Eric and Colt have been waiting and waiting for fireworks! Colt has been saving his money and they all loved being part of picking which ones to get. 

Ready for the show! I don't even know how much Eric spent on fireworks but we did three night fireworks and all the kids had turns to pick which ones they wanted on their turn and Eric let them come with him to light theirs each time. What a great dad they have! They sure loved it and it was quite entertaining to listen to Ellie yell for them to hurry and get back to their seat. 

Colt finally finished his sticker chart! Way to keep going buddy, I know it was hard to get (and keep) all those stickers! So off to Chuck E. Cheese we went! 

This is after Chuck E. Cheese, everyone was happy except Rae because she was petrified of the Chuck E. Cheese mascot that comes out and visits the kids. Poor girl, he came out right as we were leaving and she had a very hard time with it. She says she doesn't want to go to Disneyland because of all the characters with costumes! 

One day when Rae went to VBS the rest of us went to a little tour of a firehouse. Livy was so intrigued by every tool and little compartment. She just loved it!

Colt's dragon fly friend. He insisted it was sitting on his finger but the poor guy was almost bent in half and just waiting out the rest of his time!

We love having Hannah here and are so excited to go see her in New York soon! These kids sure are lucky to have the best aunt there is!