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Last Friday the kids didn't have school. So, we took advantage of the free day and went to Get Air!! It is a new trampoline park here in Wichita. When we first got in, I was a little disappointed. It seemed a lot smaller than I thought it would be, but the kids had a ton of fun and had plenty to do! The cost was a little steep, $12 per kid per hour, but we ended up getting to jump for about an hour and 20 minutes, and that was plenty of time for the kids to get all worn out!
There were lines of trampolines to jump on:
You could also slide down them!
We met my sister Mary & her three kids there! Here is Tabby with the boys:
There was also a tight rope!
Poor Riley had a mishap in the dodge ball court. :0(
He quickly "bounced" back into the foam pits though!
(See what I did there...Bounced Back?? I crack myself up!) ;0)
Tabby, Lily, and Johnny all took turns jumping in the pits too!
Alyssa was there too. She was all over the place so I had to tell her to jump in front of me so I could get a picture of her. LOL!
While I thought the price was a little steep to begin with, the kids did have a lot of fun and by the end I felt it was worth it and will probably go again soon!
On Monday we had one last hurrah of summer! Each of the kids had friends over to play for the afternoon and we made mini pies!
I had mini graham cracker crusts that the kids all filled with different types of candy.
Then they filled it the rest of the way with chocolate pudding:
After the pudding set up in the fridge, they topped their pies with more candy, sprinkles, and whipped cream!
They all enjoyed them!
Later on, Lily & Riley's friends were still over (I was watching them for their mom) so we made mini pizzas for dinner!
Their mom & dad had pizza with Jeff & I and then we enjoyed a few glasses of wine while the kids played to toast that we all survived summer break! ;0)
Today was the first day of school!! Lily was super excited!! Riley was kind of excited. Zach thought he was being sentenced to death.... ;0)
Here are my three cuties in their uniforms getting ready to head off to school! Zach is now in 6th grade (Middle school!!!!), Riley is in 4th, and Lily is in 2nd.
Zach actually got dropped off first, but he refused to let me take a picture of him in the classroom. At first he told us w couldn't even go in the room (or really near his room before he got in it, LOL!), but we reminded him of how much stuff he had to bring in and that he may need some help. So Jeff was allowed to drop off some stuff and then quickly leave. ;0)
Riley still lets me take a picture of him with his teacher. :0) This is Ms. Theisen's second year at All Saints, but Riley got to know her last year because he would go get books from her and he really likes her. I think he's going to have a great year!
Lily was the last one to get dropped off. Here she is with her BFF Alli being silly!
Mrs. Heise was also Lily's kindergarten teacher! We LOVE Mrs. Heise!!! Lily was SO excited to get her again. I know she will have a great year!!
Every year, I ask the kids the same questions before they go back to school. Some of the answers are always the same, and some change. Here are what they said this year:
I can't wait to see what they thought of their first day back!
Today is the last day of summer break for my kids, which means tomorrow is their first day back at school! This summer has flown by!! I'm usually more than ready to send them back, but it seems like they just got out.
Anyway.....
I usually make back to school gifts for the teachers and the kids. I'll start with the teachers. I was just going to a basket with candy & their favorite drink, but then my niece sent me a picture of the cutest craft, so I just HAD to do that!
Isn't that adorable?? All it is, is a mason jar that I painted red, the lid painted green, then I painted a wooden bead brown, cut out leaves from scrapbook paper, folded them down the middle to make them "3D", and glued those on to the lid. Then I filled them with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!
Zach has two homeroom teachers (they're part time) so that's why there are 4.)
I was already going to fill cups with candy, so I did that too. :0)
I threw those plus their favorite drink in a basket with some white crinkled filler. (basket & filler from dollar tree....and the jars and cups too!)
I added a cute back to school tag to the cup, and I'm going to add a tag that says who it's to and from plus: "Two things you need to get through the first week of school: chocolate and caffeine!"
I hadn't made that yet when I took the picture though. ;0)
On to the kids' gifts! I usually have a few things for the kids when they wake up to greet them on their first day back. This year it is orang Crush pop with a note saying, "You are going to CRUSH this year!"
They are also getting airhead candies with a note:
I have no idea why the word year is highlighted....I just noticed that. Oh well. Maybe the kids wont notice. :0)
We're off to the start a new year!!
One of the last things that we had left on our summer fun list was egg shell painting. I had seen this on Pinterest and it looked like a lot of fun!!
As we ate eggs, I cracked just the top to get the egg out, then I washed the inside out carefully. Soon I had an entire dozen!
When we were ready to use them, we gathered up some paint and filled each eggs with it.
After the eggs were filled (about 1/2 to 3/4 way), we pinned some paper up out on the back fence.
Lily got her first egg (they each got 4) and aimed for the paper and....
completely missed! Lol! Note to self, use bigger paper next time.....
Riley was up next and he hit the paper!
Zach threw his egg and hit the paper too!
You can see the shell exploding here:
The kids threw all of their eggs and had a lot of fun doing it!
Either we need to work on aim or just get really, really big paper...... ;0)
They were proud of their beautiful "masterpiece"!
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