A fun Friday

I can't say every summer day has been blissful around here. We've had some good ones and we've had some bad ones. Most bad ones involve too much fighting, not enough helping and a good amount of whining. But I try to focus on the good ones more than the bad and hope that my kids grow up thinking life was pretty okay despite everything not being perfect all (or any) of the time.

We had a fun Friday. Carter got invited to a primary friends Birthday party. It was at a splash pad and the whole family was invited. We don't have any public splash pads around our area so it was fun to get to go to one. The kids thought it was going to be boring but as you can see from the pictures, they all had a really great time. Brandon did fall on the playground equipment and bit his tongue pretty bad. He held ice on it and walked around spitting out blood for a good long while. But once it was sufficiently numb from all the ice and it quit bleeding, he was back up and running and playing with the kids.

That Darby McCoy is one strong girl. Almost two years younger than Ashlyn and she's the one lifting her up to gather "pokey balls" from the tree.

Brandon wouldn't smile for me, but I didn't let that stop me from taking his picture anyway. 

Ready for cake and presents.

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I loved seeing them all play together and enjoy themselves. It was a great day. Not too hot, but definitely sunny enough for some water play.

We came home, got cleaned up and headed to a free library event at a local High School. It was environmentally themed about the "Great Butterfly migration" and the guy was a little "weird" but he did some pretty fun tricks and Leah got chosen to be the butterfly. So she was up on stage just about the entire show and got to get up and flit around as he sang and did tricks.

So overall, it was pretty fun and the kids had a great evening.