New Routines

Nate recently got a job at Olive Garden so now we are working on getting settled into a new routine of him working.  He has been working a lot as they are understaffed but he is enjoying it thoroughly.  Micah is still loving our new home and all the neighborhood kids that come along with it.  Just in our row of 4 townhomes we have four girls (ages 9, 7, 5, 4) and 8 boys (ages 7, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 7 months and another on the way <-not us).  That's 11 kids running around not including our little guys who you can tell wants badly to be out there running as well.

There is always a flurry of activity in and around our home.  Since all of our kids, mentioned above, are still young they aren't allowed to go much further than right outside our homes, all of the older kids in the neighborhood tend to gather at various times in front of our house as well. There's always something fun going on...water gun fights, nerf wars, chalk drawings, BeyBlade battles, basketball or a fun game of tag.
They have their moments where they need alone time in their respective houses but for the most part, they all do a wonderful job playing together and having fun.  

We still have three weeks of summer to enjoy.  So far we haven't taken any adventures but with Nate getting settled at O.G. we haven't had much time.  We did join the YMCA here so we have been enjoying all this Y has to offer.  It has some fabulous pools, so along with working out we are having a blast swimming.  Sometimes for exercise, sometimes in the kid splash pool (inside) or enjoying the summer heat in the family pool outside, with the big slide.  

Micah excited after passing the Black Band Test.  

The black band allows him to go down the slide and swim in the deep end.  He's been learning how to swim laps with us in the inside, lap pool.  He's quite good & enjoying it.  (Likely because Levi can't be in there with us...so he gets good quality time.)