Updates on Clifton -
He has been learning about informative writing at school and has gotten very excited about writing.  He spent a lot of time writing books this week.  His first was about Clint Dempsey.  He put a lot of effort into it and I learned some stuff from his book.  Super cute to see him excited about this.

Updates on McKay -

Complained that she slept on her neck wrong while camping last weekend and has been complaining about the pain for most of the week.  I had a hard time telling if she was hamming it up or if it was really bad.  Luckily after lots of icy hot, massages, and heat pads she started feeling better.

Updates on Stanley -
Loves to tell me and others when things don't go his way that, "You're mean!"  Yep not my favorite thing he does.

He loves his Jade friend.  He was so sweet and when we walked by flowers he asked me if we could get them for Jade.  Cuties!  

For FHE we worked on understanding and memorizing the 7th article of faith for Clifton's Faith in God and McKay was given a challenge from her church teachers to do so.

 They had it down by the end of the night.  Fun way to memorize it!

Then s'mores for all their hard work.

Another week of great weather.  We loved getting out and about.

 Discovering new parks with friends.

Catching frogs in our backyard.

 Water balloon fun.

And sprinkler fun.  I just love summer weather and the simple fun that we can have in it.

Stanley finished Pee Wee Soccer!

And so did I ;). We both had a lot of fun.  We had a fun group of kids and I got to coach with some of my favorite ladies.  But I do think my body is ready to have a break from coaching.

GOAL!

Friday Clifton got an award at school.

He was happily surprised to get another award, I even got him to smile!  So proud of him.

Friday night Alex headed out to another campout for the upcoming Camp Heleman.  So just the kids and I that night and Saturday morning.  I wanted to do the Seagull Splat race as a family but couldn't get myself to do it without Alex and super pregnant.  So I just ended up taking the kids to the Kids Splat.

I didn't get my workout in but the kids had a blast.  We then walked around the festival going on around the bay.

Foot ferry ride.

Stem fun

 First time my kids have tried Dippin Dots.

 Sea creatures

We had a lot of fun exploring.

Then we bought a fun new toy from a friend.

Little do these guys know this is Mom's toy!  I am sooooo excited!

Alex came home and we were able to spend the evening with friends.

Such a fun night!  Crazy kiddos.

Other fun things from the week...

We have reached that point in my pregnancy where Alex's wardrobe has now become mine.  Sorry Alex ;)

Updates on Clifton -
His project this week for his Faith in God was to pick an art project to work on.  Thanks to Pinterest we came up with an idea to do string art.  He decided he wanted Seahawks and we went with it.

I think it turned out pretty cute!

Updates on McKay -
Had a great week and was just happy as a clam all week.

Updates on Stanley -
We got some extra time together this week, just the two of us and I sure enjoyed it.  Reminded me that I need to really soak this time in before Baby comes.

What a beautiful week we had almost feels like summer!

 Water fun!

 Yummy strawberry desserts.

For FHE we worked in our yard.  We have a lot of clearing to do.

Tuesday and Thursday is our soccer mornings.  And we had a lot fun this week!

Stanley is starting to really participate and get into it.  Still lots of direction and some tears, but he is enjoying soccer.

And we enjoy staying around and playing with friends at the park after soccer.  We even got to get out on the water and kayak a little.

Tuesday is also Cub Scouts night.

It is fun watching Clifton enjoy scouting.

Things have slowed down a little at the school and so it gave Stanley and I a little more time to explore together.

We hiked a new trail, Big Tree Trail.  It was kind of scary to do just the two of us but we had a lot of fun!  Such a beautiful hike.

We even had time to do some crafts.

Friday morning was Muffins for Mom's at school. Stanley got to join in because Alex was sweet and came to help serve food to the moms.  I know, he's great!

Fun morning!

After school Alex took the older kids camping with other friends from church.

They had a blast!

Stanley was quite sad to not go but McDonalds made it all better.

And his favorite babysitter came over and got to play with just him.  So he got over it quickly.

I got to sneak away that night with fiends and play Laser Tag.

We tried out a new place in Gig Harbor and it didn't disappoint!

Saturday morning Stanley and I got out on our own adventure.  We walked the dock on the bay.

 Got to explore the Lady Washington Ship.

 Spotted some wildlife!

And played at the park.  We had fun but boy was he excited when Clifton and McKay came home.

We spent the rest of the day playing tougher and the kiddos/hubby even washed my car!

I am pretty lucky!

Sunday we started to put together the Baby's room.

Still got a while but it's also getting closer and starting to feel real.  I'll be a mom of 4 soon, ahhhh!