Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Summer is Flying by...

Andrew has been getting REALLY good at Hitting baseballs, and practicing in our back yard has led to many of our baseballs ending up in the neighbors yard...so we decided to build a batting cage. It works really well for now. When he is older we will have to build a bigger one, but for right now it's great!
 The kids have been loving playing in the back yard, swimming in the pool, jumping on the trampoline...just playing together!
 We went to the Zoo with some other Swifts...this kids had a great time!
 We have been eating a lot of Ice cream this summer- Here is a cute picture of my Mallory girl enjoying some at Dairy Queen!
 On the 4th of July we went to the Eatonville parade!! I love that Parade, it's mostly just people driving their cars down the "main" street, but it's so fun!

Grandpa came with us, and kept disappearing and coming back with snacks!
 The weekend of the 4th we had a Swift Family Reunion (-2 on missions) it was great for the kids to be able to spend lots of time with their cousins, we miss lots of them that live so far away!
 Momma Swift treated all of us girls to a pedicure for our birthdays! It was Very relaxing...
 After the Reunion Andrew had two weeks of baseball camp. He was the youngest boy there and had to work really hard to keep up. It was 3 hours a day (with one 5 minute water break) of drills, scrimmages and practice.
 It was Very intense and I was a little worried that he would get discouraged or burnt out--but he LOVED it. By the end of the two weeks he was TONS better, Super excited about his new skills and excited to play more! It was a Great camp, I am excited to do it again next year!
 One day on the way to swimming lessons we stopped at this cute donut shop, it was really interesting, kind of expensive and they were not the best...but it was fun to try something new!
 On Saturday it was our 6 year anniversary, we went out to lunch at BJ's! It was really nice to have some Kid free time to spend together...although we talked about the kids 90% of the time!
 After our Anniversary lunch we had a 3 year olds birthday party to go to! It was at a bouncy house place, and OF COURSE the kids had a BLAST!
I feel like the Summer is FLYING by...I am worried it will be time for school and we wont have fit in all the fun yet--- Got to go!