Early June Hodge-Podge

Celebrating Jon on Father's Day...The kids have such a good dad, and I am so grateful!

Natalie was fed up with her brother and sister one day.  She fumed, "I can't take Scott right now!  And I can't take Kate either!"

Kate turned to her and lectured, "Well, you have siblings, and you're in a family.  It will be just you and your husband in a couple of years."    ??!?!?!!!

The kids LOVED swim lessons this year!  They made some good progress.  Last year, Kate wouldn't put her head under and by the end of the two week session this year, she was jumping in!  They were so eager to go to lessons each day and had a wonderful experience with some super sweet teachers!

 Scott drives Scout crazy when he flies his drone around the room!

Awhile back, I shared a news story with the kids about a Bible that had been unscathed during a tornado even though the house around it had been blown away.  Fast forward a few weeks later.  There were tornadoes in the area and as an extra precaution, I took the kids to the basement.  Kate asked if she could get something upstairs and returned holding her Bible on top of her head.   :)  Thankfully, the storms passed, and we didn't need any news worthy miracles that night. 

Scout sat like this at the top of the stairs during our tornado precautions that night- poor girl!

Fun with Faithful Friends...

Fun with Silly Siblings...

And Fun with Tortured Turtles...

The kids and I got into watching Jeopardy awhile back when the popular contestant, James, was on a winning streak.  Prior to that, the kids hadn't watched much regular television with commercials.  They were like little sponges and on commercials that I would easily tune out, they were memorizing and glued to the TV. 

One night, I was in the other room and Kate called enthusiastically, "Mom!  You should come see all these good commercials."

After a short time of watching, they started quoting them...like ALL THE TIME!  We'd be driving down the road, and they would see a "SAIA" truck.  (Never knew what a SAIA truck was until the kids started pointing them out.)  Then, they would all start saying, "We're driving business!  We're hauling the goods!" 

Or..."LOOK!  It's a Williams Comfort Air Truck!..."I will do my best to find a solution..."  

Or when we pull into Culver's- the kids in unison..."Slow churning at the right temperature is the key to perfect custard!"

Even Kate exclaimed one day in carpool as she pointed to the vehicle infront of us, "MOM!  Look!  THEY SWITCHED TO CHEVY!" 

Jon and I have learned so many slogans and jingles in the last month, and can't help ourselves but looking for SAIA trucks now too.  I told Jon that we need them to put some Bible verses on commercials for quick memorization.  WOW!  

We took our entire zoo to the vet!  Talk about family fun!:)  The young veterinarian was trying to be oh-so-professional.  He looked over our cats thoroughly and said they seem to be on the..."fluffy" side.  He was dancing around with his words, but was trying to politely tell us something we already knew.  We have FAT CATS!  (It's okay...you can say it.)  We left with some tips to help them keep their weight down.  So far, they've had about as much success with that as I have had this summer!  But we will persevere- lest anyone straight up calls us fat or fluffy.  

More to come!