Summer Summer Time

I wanted this summer to be low key, no crazy schedules and no commitments.  I figured they deserved it since next summer we will be MOVING!  I wanted freedom to spend time together and enjoy the short time off.  We spent most of our days at theY in the morning and the pool in the afternoon.  

(This picture is hilarious!  Samantha is checking Tommy's bottom for something smelly!  I guess she learns it from us since we check her diaper all the time.) Here are the kids when summer just started.  They are happily playing together, no fighting, no arguing and no tattling.  (Just a side note: since we have spent ALL summer TOGETHER, Kassie and Tommy are getting a little tired of each other.  Tommy is what I call the saboteur.  He likes to tease and try to be funny by taking Kassie's toys and running away while laughing.  This drives Kass bonkers!  It's a good thing school is starting soon.) The zoo had a few new exhibits to check out. The Children's Museum also had new exhibits too!  Tuesdays was Lunch Bunch, free lunch and a book for all the kids.  Afterwards the kids would play in the creek and look for minnows and get dirty.  Samantha didn't just get dirty, she got really really filthy.  I'm talking sand where the sun doesn't shine!    This summer has been out of the ordinary HOT and DRY!! (The creek in the pictures is almost completely dried up now) We have been on watering bans, experienced many days over 100 and no rain.  For me, I don't mind the heat.  I like hot weather.  It reminds me of Arizona, swimming all day, air conditioners buzzing and mom saying, "Shut the door, we're not cooling the outside!"  I think I've said the same thing about one hundred times!  Whats different about hot summers here as apposed to Arizona's is, the HUMIDITY!!!  It is crazy!  Just imagine you're in a hot and steamy sauna and that is Midwest summers.