Labor Day was spent ALL day at a water park with friends.  Probably the last of the season.  It was a ton of fun!

I can't believe we are a family that can go almost all day at the water park now.  No naps or crying, just fun.  Helps to have friends with us!

That night we had another unexpected storm with hail.  Thank goodness no damaging hail.

The last few big rains our gutters are spilling over.  I was frustrated because they are brand new gutters.  I videoed to show the roofers, but before getting in contact with them I got up to see ig something was blocking them.  There are no trees or anything that would cause the gutters to get clogged.  At least that's what I thought.  Kids, kids are around that might cause clogging.  Haha I was not expecting to find a ball.

Glad I checked before I called the roofers!

Tuesdays are family nights.  Again with Alex teaching seminary we need to make sure our time with him is used wisely.  Each kid gets a Tuesday to pick an activity to do together and share a spiritual message.

McKay wanted to talk about knowledge and then we made thank you letters for teachers or leaders in our lives that have helped us learn. And then we made alphabet cookies and decorated them.  A cute night planned by McKay!

My time with Hazen while the others are in school look a lot like this.  Playing lots of games, coloring, and being silly.

After school one day,  McKay and her friend used me as their canvas.

Half night and half day is the artwork they did.

This week at school they had grandparent day lunch.  Stanley was sad we don't have gradparents close by. So Hazen and I made suer to stop by and have lunch with them.

Friday night the kids got to work baking for the neighborhood garage sale the next day.

Yummy treats ready to go.

Date night!  Alex pick this time and he chose ice skating.

Super fun night.

Saturday was our garage/bake sale.  Stanley's first grade teacher stopped by, so sweet!

They was they used their spendings.  They were super anxious to get to the store and waste their earnings.

Love these crazies.

Sunday was the perfect weather.  While Alex studied and planned for seminary the kids and I enjoyed a nice walk around a pond.

Getting excited for more days like these, not too hot to be outside.

 Monday we went to the zoo with friends...

It was a fun morning and the zoo was pretty empty which is nice.

First football game and darn the looks so handsome all suited up.  Hears to trying somethignnew.  He is playing corner back on defense.

Hoping it's a great season.

I taught Hazen how to play Rock, Paper, Scissors.  He LOVES it.  That lead to a night of Rochambeau (yep we learned that new term too).  But we made different variations.  it was a spontaneous and fun night.

Date night!  We are trying to really make sure we fit this in.  Now that Alex teaches seminary we don't get to see a whole lot of him.  He leaves very early and then gets home from work around 6 nd heads to bed around 8:30.  So tonight we went to anEscape Room

It was my first and was pretty fun!

Saturdays Adventure Challenge.  We took a hike, found items to paint with and painted with nature.

It was hot out but we had a lot of fun.  And a stop at QT for cold drinks made it all go away.

Sunday we got an unexpected storm and it blew off one of our shutters.  Luckily it didn't hit our car!

Oh Texas weather you are so bipolar!