Hot Summer

Today was very hot, well, it's been hot. I can't believe it is August 10th already. Kev only has 7 more Saturdays of selling. Which speeds us up to October. Crazy. So we swam with our friends Eva and her children, Alfred and Hanna. It was so cute because Alfred doesn't know English, he speaks cute Swedish, and so his mom taught him how to say "Stop it", because I guess the girls were doing something (they were all having a blast, so maybe it got to be too much?) but it was hilarious because he was so intense in saying it. And so he would run up to the pool and say "STOP IT!" So strong. And then later Gabi was doing something and he would run up and say "Stop It, Gabin!" I loved it! I told Eva, we need to teach him another phrase, like, "I like you". ha! Anyway, so the kids had fun and Eva and I had fun chatting it up. They left about 4:30 (oh and you can see pics on her blog because I forgot my camera), and then the sister missionaries came over for dinner at 5:30.

Dinner was homemade pizza and salad and fruit. Rach made cinnamon roll-ups for dessert. I think dinner turned out terrible! My pizza had an odd taste, like fermented stuff, and I put on zuccini that we shredded before for zuccini bread, so I'm wondering if it was that, but I smelled it before using it, so yeah, I am not sure. Of course the sisters said it was fine. And then the salad, my salad dressing or something was off, I made my usual vinagrette and I don't know. And then the watermelon I had just bought today was bruised and stuff (went to Walmart instead of H-E-B!) So I was like, you guys, I'm so sorry. You have to come back again, and I hope you'll want to and not dread Sis Wadell's cooking. They were laughing. We also had new neighbors moving in so they went to talk to them when they left. I told them how I have the Preach My Gospel book and how I am still in the beginning because I am marking like, every scripture, and they were like, yeah, skip ahead to the lessons. So I am gonna do that! And this just in, Jake went from laying down to sitting up on his bottom tonight. First time. It was amazing!

It's over for the Summer Reading program at the library. We had a great time with it. Last year the Cedar Park library had more toys/goodies. This year, we were at the Round Rock library and there were just gift coupons to get free kids meals or doughnuts or frozen yogurt, etc. So we have had fun with it! Nice afternoon treats thanks to the kids doing reading, which they enjoy and do every night anyway.

We are now a part of the Royal Academy Homeschool group and they told us about a camping trip that a big group does, so we are going to do that the last week of this month, and I'm very excited! We stay in cabins, we get to swim and hike and do crafts and yeah, cell phones won't work and they say no electronics. It's gonna be amazing to be together without this stuff.