Summer Time!!!

So I know I have been really bad about posting. It just seems that summer is so busy and we are having to much fun enjoying the sun. So where do I start when I am nearly two months behind???

June was crazy. We finished up school for the year and I am looking forward to sending two kids to school starting this fall. Tyler enjoyed the first grade enough that he may be doing it again. The school district is going to test his reading and other items before school starts in August but at this point the decision is to have him do first grade over again. This was a really hard thing to hear as a mother but I think in the end it will be best for him and he will be more confident in school and around his peers.

This month for JC has been a physical rollercoaster. A few weeks ago he called me to tell me that he wasn't feeling well and tried to ease me into the fact that his blood sugar was through the roof. He decided to go to the ER and they tested his Glucose level somewhere around 550. I can't believe he was still standing at this point but they gave him some insulin and kept him there for a few hours until he was at a more normal range. He ended up going back in the next morning to get another insulin shot because it was still high but he finally came down a few days later. We are glad he is ok and now we have been trying to find new ways to eat healthy and cut the sugars out. I have become a real fan of Splenda and am trying to learn to bake with it. We have been doing a ton of swimming this month.

We have had plenty of record breaking temps this month so we love to spend time at the pool. The kids have become such confident swimmers and it so fun to watch them improve so much in such little time. Kids are amazing that way. Caitlin loves to swim under the water which amazes me for a two year old. For Fathers day we made this cute block puzzle by suggestion from Kelsey. The kids had fun painting and I think I spent just as much time cleaning up from it as I did actually making it. But that is the point of Fathers day gifts right?

And you can't forget the Fathers Day Cake :)

We also went to a kids day at Cabelas. The kids always enjoy the fishing.Samantha particpated in the pie eating contest and was pretty close to winning. She is such a competitive little stinker...she was so mad that she didn't win.

For the 4th of July I was a bad mother and did not take any pictures but our friends did so when I get those I am planning on posting them. We had fun spending the day swimming and BBQing. It ended in a bang as usual with plenty of pyrotechnics by Dad and a few close calls :) Well, we are only 3 weeks away from our annual Stott family get together and I am getting so excited. I have not had a real vacation day off all year and am excited to get together with my family, relax and play hard. I get to see my cute neice and nephew Lillian and William who I have not been able to see since they were born and I am excited that my kids will have 3 cousins to play with this time...too cool!!! Well this is all I can think of that has happend this month, I am sure there has been more but am so behind I don't remember it all.