It's the start of summer and the question arises, "What am I gonna do with these kids for 10 weeks?" To be honest, I love parts of summer- slow mornings, running kids around less and NO homework (for me and for them). But we're already starting to get a little stir crazy. The three oldest have actually been trying on ALL of Jacey's clothes for the past hour. I mean ALL of her clothes, dress up clothes, pajamas, every day clothes, EVERYTHING! The boys won't let me snap pictures of them or else they would definitely be on this blog. I think they're bored. I could do a lot more with the older kids if I didn't have to be home to let Jackson take a nap twice a day. We bought a blow up pool at Costco and that has helped some, but we're having weird weather here and it hasn't even been that hot. We have some summer activities planned: Swim Lessons, T-Ball, and Cub Scout Camp. I've also been spoiled these past 3 weeks because John has been off work, but Monday he starts summer school. I will be on my own again. No running off to stores and errands by myself. We have some summer trips planned when John gets out of school, so that's something to look forward to. Thankfully, I have some organized friends organizing some summer activities. Here's a few pictures to show what we've been up to the last week.
Jaden is playing
T-Ball for the first time. He's doing a great job and is quite the athlete.
Jackson's getting a ride around the house. He loved this.
Weeeeeeeee
He doesn't look real happy in the this picture, but he was having a great time.
Jacey's constant requests for me to take pictures of her making strange faces.
Swinging on Grandma and Papa's swing.
We finally had something going on that I could post about. This past weekend my brother Jacob married Jen in Vacaville, Ca. We went up on the 4th of July and met and celebrated with Jen's family. The following morning they were married. John's mom was at our house with Jackson and I am so glad because it was a long 2 days in the car.
My family
Jen's son Tyler and Jaden
Jeremiah and his friend Jennifer
Cute kids
My kids with JoJo
Jared and Jacey at the hotel
Jackson's getting a ride around the house. He loved this.
Weeeeeeeee
He doesn't look real happy in the this picture, but he was having a great time.
Jacey's constant requests for me to take pictures of her making strange faces.
Swinging on Grandma and Papa's swing.
As mentioned before, Jared and Jaden's Birthday gift was a trip to Disneyland. Last week we went to Disneyland with John's sister Lisa and family. We had such a GREAT time. We went up the night before and stayed at the Holiday Inn. We got there in time to eat dinner and hang out at the pool.
Adam and Jaden
Jared and Isaac
The Zollingers met us for a swim
Jaden standing on the water
We got up early the next morning and headed to Disneyland. We were able to walk there from our hotel. Grandma and Papa were nice to take Jackson so he wasn't there with us. We missed him, but I CAN'T imagine doing Disneyland with a baby. Especially being there from open to close. We got there before it opened and it was quite exiciting racing to our first ride with music blaring all over the park. We were able to ride everything we wanted to and didn't stand in any line longer than 10 minutes or so with the exception of the Finding Nemo ride, which was a 40 minute wait. The kids insisited we go on it. I can't imagine that it was worth it to wait 2-4 hours for that ride when it came out a year ago. Adam and Lisa's kids were fighting the stomach flu but they were troopers. Never complaining, going on every ride!!!! It made for lots of bathroom trips though. 
John and Jaden
Adam and Lisa did the teacups for us. John and I HATE the teacups.
Jacey didn't want to ride Splash Mountain, so we found some characters to meet and greet.
Jungle Cruise
Jacey driving Autopia. It was a bumpy ride.
The whole group on Finding Nemo. We had 11 in our group and mostly stayed together both days.
Jacey LOVES Emma
The next day we got to sleep in a little and went to California Adventure. We took advantage of the Southern California 2fer special- 2 days for the price of 1. After not making it to the Princess Faire with Jacey the day before, we made sure we caught Playhouse Disney Live first thing. The rest of the group went on the water ride.
I didn't take as many pictures this day. We went on every ride and Jared impressed me by riding California Screamin- the roller coaster- twice! We had a great time and can't wait to do it again in 5 years!!!
Jackson, Jaden and cousins
Silly Jacey
Emma and Jared
Grandma and Grandpa Hart
The whole family
Happy Birthday!
Grandma and Jaden- matching shirts!
Cute Jackson- happy as always 
