Our last 2 weeks of summer.

My internet has been down for the past few days so I haven't been able to post pictures of what we have been up to lately. Taylor started a Wee Play Gymsters class for preschoolers a couple of weeks ago. Here are some pictures of the classes. She does enjoy it.

This was a little bounce house with ball hoops in it.

Her Teacher is Miss Allison in the orange striped shirt. This part she was jumping off the mats and then they would do a somersault.

A cool little mini roller coaster. Nathan is the one pushing her.

Parachute time. Most of the kids had their parents with them to do the activities but since Nathan was there with us he wanted to do things with her. I think he really enjoyed being the big helper.
Brother and sister love playing on the big hot dog in the gymster class. What Natalie does during the class. She really does enjoy watching all the kids and listening to the music.

Every year our stake does a service project called Helping Hands Caring Hearts. It is where we purchase an outfit and socks and underwear for a needy child in the Chandler School District to wear the first day of school. This year I went to the work day where we take all the tags off the clothes so the parents can't return the items for money and also make sure everything is in the bag and that the sizes match what is on the label for that child. This year I decided to bring Nathan along to help see the big picture of the service that is being done. The kids get to help pick out the clothes every year but this year I decided to take it to the next step with Nathan. He was surprised at how many bags of clothes there were.

Random picture of Natalie asleep in the high chair. I think I have a picture of all 3 kids asleep in this same high chair.

Last Wednesday I decided to take the kids to Peter Piper Pizza since we hadn't been in months and Nathan starts school on Monday the 27th. This is Taylor's FAVORITE thing to do there, I think she would use all her tokens on this one ride if I would let her.

Nathan playing one of the games at Peter Piper.
Friday we had Meet the Teacher. Nathan will be in the 2nd grade and this is his teacher Ms Beveridge. She seemed really nice, it is her 4th year teaching. I can't believe I have a 2nd grader.

Last night we went to Chuck E Cheese. Not my first choice since we were just at PPP on Wednesday but Preston's cousin Dave was in town from Minnesota and all the cousins were going there and Preston wanted to visit with Dave so we went. This is PReston Nathan Jackson (Dave's son that is a month older than Nathan) and Dave (2 days younger than Preston and also the guy I was on a blind date with when I met Preston almost 12 years ago)Taylor playing at CEC.Natalie driving the forklift. She was loving it and she really got into it.The kids in the carpool lane at CEC.

I have also taken the kids to the summer movies at Harkins and swimming at the city pools quite often. We have had a great summer. It went by really fast because time flies when you are having fun. Honestly I think we are all ready to get back in the school mode though.