More Summer Fun!

Well we are definitely making the most of this summer.  We are having such a fun time.  Tuesday night, we had another dinner party.  One of our “Farmers Family” that moved to Nebraska came back to visit so we had a nice night planned to get together. 

The Gals

 

The Guys

 

The kids

 

There is never a dull moment. Even Harry talked Miss Shawn into dancing with him when all of the other kids fell asleep.  How cute are they?!

And before we knew it, it was 4am!!!!  Time surely does fly by when you are having fun and catching up.  Thank Goodness, the kids slept in the next day and Scott already took the day off of work! 

Can a garage sale actually be fun?!

Typically NO!  They are so much work and then you have to deal with people stealing stuff, changing stickers and thinking that your $80 unused Nike shoes are too expensively priced at 50 cents and want a better bargain. But we did make fun of it.  We had a 4 family sale and boy was it huge! 

We had a lot of traffic and I am considering doing another this weekend just for a couple hours because we had so much traffic.  It doesn’t hurt to make a little extra money while purging out stuff.  The boys had a lemonade stand. How cute are they?!  

I have to tell you the William was the best salesman.  When all the other kids went inside to play, he sat there by himself waiting for customers.  And when new people showed up, he would stand up and hold his sign proudly over his head.  And sometimes he would follow people around with his sign :)  Ha. 

After a long hot productive day, we had a nice dinner with our friends (who had the sale with us).   We had a nice dinner and relaxed in the pool and hot tub. 

     

And at the end of the day, we all passed out from exhaustion :)

 

Family Vacation 2012

With me still looking for a job, we couldn’t do a bigger vacation this year so we headed back to Palm Desert.  Luckily we had enough Marriott reward points so it worked out perfect.  And all the boys really need is a bed to jump on and a pool to swim in.  And all Scott and I need is a break from everyday life.  So it turned out perfect.  We left early Thursday morning and came back Sunday evening.  We all had a great time.  All we did was swim, swim, swim. 

 

And of-course that wore them out!!!  Harry came up to give me a hug and when I looked over, he was fast asleep!   So of-course Mister Sweet himself had to come over and give him a hug and kiss.   And then Scott ended up taking a nap himself with Harry.

 

We had a kitchenette in our room so we were lucky enough to bring all of our food to eat on the trip except one night we took the boys to Mikado because they remembered last year the guy throwing food at Scott’s face.  Harry brought it up a full month before our vacation that he wanted to go back and see if Daddy could catch the food again!  He did! 

  and don’t they look so sharp!    After we ate, we took a boat ride.  This is William being silly with the camera.  We had incentives to help the boys behave (not that they are ever out of control ha ha ha).  I wrapped gifts from the Dollar Store.  That did the trick. 

As if we didn’t get enough swimming during the day, they had a dive-in movie every night that we went to.  We seriously swam from the moment we woke up till bedtime. 

       

 

And of-course the boys ended up taking naps every day!  And if you know the Archer boys, they do NOT nap so this was huge!

I think it was a hit! 

The Good and The Bad

The good is that after nearly 10 weeks, I am off of crutches and onto a cane.  And yes it is a pink blinged out cane with rhinestones :)  After my lovely silver fashion statement and tennis shoes or flat shoes for almost three months, I felt I deserved a little pretty cane.  My knee is healing very well.  I can start to ride the stationary bike.  My doctor was funny.  He said, “Now Jymme-Lyn, I think I know you well enough.  Well I tell you, you can ride the bike, that does not mean get on for an hour and a half.  It means ride for 5 minutes and see how you feel the next day!”  He does know me well. So I am healing well and hopefully by the end of summer, I may get to start running again. 

Bad news:  I seriously cannot get over this.  My first Mother’s Day present was my awesome D60 Nikon camera.  I LOVE that camera!!!  When we were getting ready to go to Palm Springs for our vacation, we could not find it anywhere.  We finally figured out that we think we left it at the X Games downtown a few weeks ago.  With me on crutches, Scott has been responsible for carrying everything (camera, backpacks, my purse and the boys hands) so I can’t blame him at all.  We called Nokia Theatre, Staples Center and Katsuya and of-course none of them have it.  If that isn’t worse enough, our little Nikon camera was in the bag along with about 20 SD cards of the last 5 years and Harrison’s little card from the hospital from when he was born.  So I have my blog for past pictures but it is so heartbreaking.  Nokia has our number so please pray that it turns up although from past experience (losing camera at 6 flags), I don’t see that happening.  We are not good with cameras.  Good thing the iPhone has a pretty nice camera on it because that is all I will be using. 

Random updates

Late last week I took the boys to the Duck Pond.  I’m sure you have seen these pictures on facebook but I have to say a little bit about it.  William kept getting bit by the geese.  He was hand feeding them opposed to throwing the bread towards them.  So almost every time he gave the adult ones a piece, he would get bit.  I told him to start tossing the bread.  His response was, “Mom, I don’t want them to have to eat their lunch off the dirty ground!”  How cute is he?! 

 

We brought two loaves of bread.  After going through those Harrison was so cute.  He was talking to each one directly saying, “I’m sorry, we are all out.  I feel bad you didn’t get enough lunch.”  Seriously apologizing to every one of them.

 

Saturday William had a birthday party to go to.  Here is a picture of him with his friends.  And what do you know his best friend, Nathan, loves pirates too and that was the theme of his party.  Here are the pirates :)
 

Sunday, after church, we went to the beach.  We love Ventura beach but we decided on Sunday that we are going to start going south now to the beach instead of north.  It was in the high 90s at home but the beach a mere 30 minutes away was 60 and that wasn’t bad but the wind off of the coast is what makes it so cold.  So our idea of getting a little sun didn’t work out.  But we had fun playing instead.  do you like how my crutches became the markers for the goalie?!

 

Yesterday we had our friends, Nikki and Cooper over for a few hours.  I can’t believe it but all 4 of them got along the entire time.  Usually with 3 or 4 boys, someone gets left out or picked on and I was waiting for that complaint.  But OMG, they are were so good and had fun.  That’s my kind of day! 

HAPPY 4th of July

I capitalized happy because yesterday was a very special day!

We had a very laid back day.  We relaxed, worked out and enjoy family time.  We made red, white and blue strawberries.  Ones dipped in white chocolate and blue sprinkles and the others filled with yogurt and blueberries.  Will liked making them and Harry enjoyed sampling them :)

   

We had a nice BBQ and slayed some giants before it got dark out.

 

After dinner we couldn’t get the boys to go outside to see the Simi Valley parks display.  You could see it from our house so that was nice.  The boys stayed inside watching Veggie Tales instead because they don’t like the sounds of fireworks. 

  

And the very exciting HAPPY part I was talking about earlier is that Jason proposed to Stephanie!  We couldn’t be any happier for them.  They are such a cute loving couple and we are excited to call Jason our “brother in-law”  or “uncle” in the boys case.  He is a stand up guy and he got a great girl!  We love you guys and are so happy for you!!!  Congratulations! 

 

3rd of July :)

Tuesday night was really fun.  We didn’t have any plans and neither did our good friends, The Maxsons, so we had an impromtu BBQ.  We had great company and great food. 

The boys get along really well.  Playing games or watching the fireworks from neighbors. 

Michael brought over some of his fireworks and even the adults had fun playing with sparklers.