VBS

Whew!  I LOVE summer time!  We've been gloriously busy but oh my, it has been FUN!!!!

 

So Mikayla has had VBS, vacation, mermaids, cheer camp and next week is faith formation camp.  Whew!!  then school starts three weeks later WAAAAA  I am not ready to let go of this awesomness!

 

So I'm backtracking a bit.... Mikayla LOVED her VBS experience.  Unfortunately this is her last year as a participant.  Next year she is planning to shadow an adult volunteer.  Yay!!!

 

 

We always do the evening session, it's less crowded and well, easier for this momma's work schedule. 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Good times at the Cave Quest this year!!! 

Cheer Camp

OHHHH my!!  I think Mikayla is having the best summer of her whole life! LOL.  every.single.thing!  She is SOOOOO excited!!

 

This week she had cheer camp at school. They are starting a cheer club and about 25 girls have signed up.  Almost all of them were able to make it this week.

 

Here they are having a little snack before they perform for us.

 

 

They are lined up and ready.  I tell you every single girl had a GREAT time.  All of the moms were discussing how much fun they had.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They learned a cheer for the 2nd week of school to perform at assembly.  They learned a dance, how to count the beats to not only dance together but with the music, jumps and how to "fly".... (aka throwing the girls up in the air and catching them)

 

The coach is a parent volunteer and she is AMAZING!!! 

 

Here is their cheer and dance (click each title to view):

 

Red Black White Cheer

 

Red Black White Dance

 

Almost every night this week...Mikayla would get into bed acting like she was about 100 years older than she was...the 3 hours a day of cheer then at least an hour of swimming at night...she was EXHAUSTED...she said oh my back ow ow ow ow ow ow....oh my legs.... ow ow ow ow ow..... then general ow ow ow ow ow ow and then...... I didn't hear a peep out of her.

 

hee hee - aching muscles = AWESOMENESS!

Speaking of mermaids......

Mikaya spent some of her hard earned money to buy a monofin.  She has had SOOOOO much fun. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am honestly shocked at how much she loves it and how good she is at it!  She has watched enough videos that she simply put it on and went to town.  There was NO looking back once she started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so once we determined that she was going to use and play with the monofin.... we took it one step further.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To say she loves it..... is a total understatement.  She told me yesterday that if there was one thing she would want to be, it would be to be a mermaid.

 

She LOVES it!

 

I am a proud momma!  She is SOOOO good at it too!!!

 

Here is some video proof!  Click Here.

 

I am seriously impressed!!!  So if you ever need me, we'll be up at the neighborhood pool...... LOL

 

Mermaids!!!

Well my car trip and every.single.other.non.occupied.second was spent making a mermaid blanket/towel.

 

It was a complicated pattern to follow but I was ACHING to get it done for Mikayla.  I hooked and hooked and hooked and hooked!!!  I hooked until my arms were numb and sore!  Just the fin part took about 6 hours.

 

 

We were in Destin and I was STILL hooking while out on the patio!!  But.... I FINISHED IT!!!! yay!!!

 

The funniest part is that it was taking me much longer than anticipated... so I had to break it out while Mikayla was awake.... and I told her I was making a table runner.  LOL!!  (should it bother me that me telling her it was a table runner didn't even phase her......)  I was tickled pink because she kept eying it and saying how pretty the stitch was and the color..... EEEKK Sooo excited

 

The yarn non-yarn is FABULOUS it's like a tshirt material and not a true yarn, it is amazing to work with....

 

Here it is - not quite finished but getting closer.....

 

 

Ta-Da!!

 

 

 

Now it is supposed to fold up into a backpack..... this is the pattern.....

 

 

Here is my first attempt at folding it..... um.... not so good.

 

 

then, the magic happened......

 

 

She was ELATED with it.  

 

I told her in secret that it really wasn't a table runner.... her eyes got big...

I told her it was a mermaid towel/blanket...and her eyes got bigger.....

I told her I made it for her.... and her eyes got huge and leaked out happy/loved tears.... and I got the hug of a lifetime!

 

She couldn't believe it. 

 

Now since we were in Florida and there were 2 girls and 1 blanket...I presented it to the girls as mine but that I was willing to share with them but they had to work out an argument free way to share.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She has curled up with it almost every day since then.....

 

So has Bella....hee heee heeeee  Merdog wanted out!  She prefers to lay on top of it....

 

 

(shhhh, I have already started another one!  I LOVE making these! Little Bella won 't leave my side so she got herself tangled up in the yarn)

 

 

Deep Sea Fishing

The other post was getting too long so I broke into a few posts.  The boys all went fishing one day.  They caught a bunch of fish.  One time JJ was reeling in his fish and a dolphin stole it...he was not thrilled!  LOL

This tour boat held about 55 fishermen and crew. 

I'm SO glad they had a good time!  Boy bonding rocks...not as much as girl bonding but it's pretty close! 

Something super cool we never knew.... the movie Jaws was filmed in Destin and while they were out on their fishing trip, they went by the marker..... kind of creepy huh... nah...not by the day but I bet it's creepy by night.... I don't plan to find out.