Whew! We’ve had such a fun time with our guests here to constantly keep us busy. With friends and family visiting, you try to do as much fun stuff as you possibly can. 
Since they drove all this way (from Arizona) to visit, and this is their vacation, we don’t want them to be bored, so we do as much as we can to keep them (and us) going. Some of the things we’ve done in the last 3 weeks include: 
camping,
the dino museum and the children’s garden at Thanksgiving point,
a couple of family parties, a neighborhood party, swimming,
waterslides, Boondocks, 
lots of perler beads 
and lots of legos, eating out,
eating in, and lots more fun stuff. Robin and I even went to the mall and had a mini makeover! 
That’s Julene’s step son Elias 
working on my face (oh, and that’s my new haircut, by the way)
I’m a little exhausted.
(Here’s the kids at Harry Potter day at the library. Can you guess who Cole’s dressed up as?)
But now, everyone is gone, and we have a mere 3 weeks until school starts. And I think I’m done entertaining my kids. They can sit around and read, play with friends, and generally be bored if they chose to! They need that lazy summer time of just laying around the house with NOTHING to do for just a little while before the rush of back to school. And I need to get my house cleaned up again. So, if you need us, we’ll be here. (Well, not exactly all the time–we do have the Highland Fling this week, and Cole’s going camping, and John and Jenna are starting up a little craft class. So, maybe it won’t be quite so boring, but at least I won’t be trying so hard.)
stylin’ makeover! and I love the new do!
sounds like a wonderful and busy 3 weeks
hope you can all have a bit of a relaxing quiet time before school starts again
I racked my brain, and I can’t figure out Cole’s costume. Can you give me a hint?
Wow, nice makeover. And it looks like an absolute BLAST!!!
My goodness! I can’t believe how much you have done. You are super woman. I need to take a vacation at your house 🙂 !!
Your haircut looks fabulous!
Boy you do have a bunch of blondes yourself. 🙂 Love the new haircut. Looks like you had a lovely time with friends.
Thanks for coming by and visiting the blog.
Sounds like amazing, crazy fun family and friend times!
I love your hair! It’s very flattering! 🙂