Craziest thing!

I was picking up Eva and Ethan from school and I noticed snow on the lawn of a local shopping center. I looked again and I will leave the rest to your imagination;

We had a great time!

Here are the pics of the kids uniforms;

I also wanted to show our new driveway, courtesy of the City of Arlington after the water main pipe (for the neighborhood) cracked, under our old driveway. They had it fixed in under 2 hours!

Apparently this neighborhood has this same problem all the time.

Oh how our garden grows....

These are Ethan's pictures of the garden, I can't believe the pictures he got of Lilli!

Eva and kids!

This is our neighbor and Lilli LOVES her, Lilli just mauls her whenever she sees her. Eva and friends, after their self-enflicted makeup session.

Eva and Lilli dancing, so cute. All the girls dancing together at 'the Ball'

Dylan

This is what Dylan does all day, jump off things, hit things, roll around,
Ethan looking at a Thai cookbook, he's a boy after my own heart.....!
Dylan has a funny way of entertaing himself by throwing himself on the tile, ouch.
We cut her cake before we lit it.

Eva!

Happy Birthday!
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Eva,
happy birthday to you!
We love you!
Chocolate smores' face!
Cutie pie!
Birthday dinner where we sang to Eva, had mini-cupcakes and Ethan decided to propose to a cute waitress who worked there.

Fireworks!

At the top of the hill, waiting for fireworks. This was on Green Oaks, just south of Pioneer Parkway. We bought fireworks in OK, but we couldn't light them in Lake Murray Park, so we had to wait till yesterday, at home! We only did sparklers and then Bruce, decided to do a smoke bomb for everyone's enjoyment.....
They all came inside the house after that.

Bruce is mesmerized! Vega and the babies!

We tried to go to Lake Arlington to see the fireworks and go to the festival on the 3rd, but we couldn't get in! We sat at the top of a hill above a golf course and waited for the fireworks to start. The best thing about the experience was this crabby young guy, whose job was to keep people out of the golf course, and subsequently, the parking lot and even the side of the hill. After the fireworks were over, this spectator starts running zigzag across the parking lot and the crabby starts taking off after him but never got to him in time, and it was just too funny!

We thought it was a little kid, but this was a grown man. He was just messing with the crabby guy!

Lake Murray!

My awesome friend VEGA! The kids love to wrestle in the tent!

We were making smores and reading scriptures! The day we left, just before the tent came down!
Lake Murray was awesome! There was tons of camping, trails and lots of stuff to do. There is a lodge there where you can rent water playthings for 30-60 minutes and play on the lake. We rented a water trampoline, and a canoe. Vega and I got in a kayak and since I had no idea what I was doing, it took us 30 minutes to get back to shore! We couldn't stop laughing cuz' our kayak would go 10 feet and then turn around! Over and over......
It was fun and a good learning experience!

Finally!

We left for Turner Falls on Fri. morning with our friends, Patrick and Vega. We got there around 1pm, but couldn't get in, WE TRIED 4 TIMES! Finally we gave up and went to Chicksaw National Recreation Area. It was a little ghetto but we had fun. We left to find a place to camp before the rain hit, but not before getting frustrated about Turner Falls, again! We drove around Ardmore and all these little podunk roads, then we somehow found Lake Murray. That was definetly worth the drive! Just above Turner Falls, the cute couple!
Can you see the cars backed up for a mile? We waited in that horrible line for 45 minutes, then Bruce turned out when he saw even more cars ahead of him just to pay to get in the Turner Falls Park!

The water isn't usually brown, but it had just rained really hard and there were tons of people in the water!

I finally have pictures to post, so I will split up the posts so they are not too long!

Maybe I wasn't clear....

We have misplaced our camera. Therefore I do not have pics of any of the aforementioned posts. If I was to acquire any pictures of the said events, it would be from and at the mercy of frenetically busy people, so don't get your hopes up. :(
There are a few things we like to do during the summer and if you/kids would like to join us, please contact me and we'll go!
Tomorrow there is a free movie for kids at 10am at the Parks Mall. "The Waterhorse".
There is also storytime at the Central library at 11am and The East Library has a free movie at 4pm.
Thursday at the Lake Arlington park there is a huge family event that I think starts at 5pm; games, bouncehouses, food, fishing? and a lit cardboard boat race? You can find out more on the City website under Parks and Recreation-events! Have a wonderful and safe 4th of July!
If I find anything else, I'll let you know!