ready or not, here we summer!

Last week Auggie and I spent a few days in Idaho for my baby brother's wedding. It was fun to see everyone, but boy were we tired and ready to come home! Auggie was a champ, and also very adorable. Joe and the other four kids didn't come because it was the last week of school. The last few years I have set up parties for the kids to celebrate, so it was honestly a little bit sad to be missing the most exciting and fun day of the year...also I missed Madi's fifth grade graduation and Ammon's preschool graduation. Everyone survived, so I guess we will move on to summer.

I woke up on Sunday morning to kids shoving granola bars and toast in their mouths. I grouchily declared it was Fast Sunday, and I kid you not--it was like turning the light on and bugs scattering out of sight. The kids ran up stairs and disappeared. I decided we might as well go ahead and eat breakfast, and over breakfast I informed the kids of our summer schedule.

*No coming downstairs until 6:30. (WHAAAT? WHHYYYY?)

*AND your bed has to be made, bedrooms and bathrooms tidy, and dressed for the day. (NOOOOO!)

*Freetime until 7:30, when we will be eating breakfast. (BUT MOM!!!!! Don't YOU want to sleep in?)

*Also, each day a different child will be in charge of making all the meals and cleaning up after those meals. (No one seemed too upset about this.)

I won't bore you with the rest of our (very horrible and unreasonable) routine, but the best comment of the morning was Madison's, "We might as well go back to school."

Second place came from Logan, "Why can't we just have free time all day?"

HAHAHAHA! 

We are only on day 2, and so far so good. Logan's orange chicken was so delicious that last night Auggie literally licked his plate clean! We have gone swimming with friends, read and read, visited the library, and tomorrow we will run errands. Oh, and I made a list of jobs for the kids and told them they got to CHOOSE which three they wanted to do every day. Who knew that they would be in such a hurry to pick and complete theirs first--before anyone else could claim the "easy" ones.  I highly recommend this chore system.

Sooo tired on the airplane. 

Auggie played at the kids' table during the reception.

Picnic at Twin Falls.


He loved Aunt Ame's glasses!