Proud of my Kiddos!

July was a very busy month for us...by the way, when is it that summer slows down???? Anyway, we played baseball, softball, football and participated in the Clay County Fair. Here's some highlights...

Jace decided to enter some legos in the Open Class section of the fair. We have never done 4-H, but he always admires the exhibits and says 'maybe next year I can enter something!' So this year we stuck to it and he prepared a lego display. The cool thing about it was he built a World War II scene with little men sitting in bunkers with guns, and other little men coming off boats and tanks and moving forward - and he wrote an essay about the War...it was really cool! He also built some Star Wars ships and wrote an essay about how he built them, and how Star Wars and legos were 2 of his favorite things. We were so proud of him when we found out he won the Grand Champion, purple ribbon! He says he's never won anything before in his life...which made it even sweeter.

Then football started the last part of July, they had practice when it was over 100 degrees! Here he is in his football get-up, cooling off after practice.

Jalyn played on the traveling softball team this summer, and they went to the State Tournament in Wichita in July also! It was a really fun weekend, despite the rainy weather that delayed our games several times. They ended up losing 2 and winning 1, but having a good time in between! The rain delays were several hours each, but the girls had a good time hanging out and making friends.

And of course I'm always up for eating out! We went to Applebees with my good friend, Michelle, and her 2 girls Bey Lee and Lauren. Here's Lauren, she's only 2 but had to have the black stuff for her eyes too - and can you see those bright blue 'icee' lips??? Wait a minute, I just noticed the big girls don't have black stuff on their eyes....so that must have only been necessary for spectators.

Jalyn and Bey Lee became good friends this summer, which is great because she lives in Miltonvale and we don't get to see Bey Lee very often. The girls were in daycare together when they were younger so it was fun to get reaquainted.

So there's an overview of our busy summer, and just a little bragging about our awesome, sometimes goofy, kids...we're pretty proud of them!!