End of Summer Festivities

I don't know about anyone else, but my summer went WAY too fast!!!! I'm not ready for school!!! Is anyone else not ready for school?!?! My boys are more ready than I am.....think that has anything to do with the fact that I'm not looking forward to the homework battles, the forgotten/lost/undone assignments, extra-curricular activities (out the wazoo) and all they can think about is seeing their friends all day long, having recess, eating/trading snacks?!?!

Anyway, before the summer ended we were able to make use of the pool at a friend's apartment complex. It was WAY fun!!! However, this leads me to my second question of the day (the first was about school, see above): how many times does a woman have to hear "Hey Mom, watch this!!" before she goes completely insane?!?! Here are my little water bugs.....

Sweet Stories!

So the other night we were having this huge thunderstorm--lots of lightening and thunder. Scott was pretty tired, so he went right to sleep, but Nathan was pretty nervous. He wanted me to sit with him until he went to sleep. I was ridiculously tired and still had like dishes, laundry and homework to do, so I gave him his stuffed animal and told him to go to sleep. Alan overheard this and took pity on his younger brother and sat down on the floor by his bed. He stayed until Nathan was asleep ~ bless his heart ~ sweetie!!

Alan's in this take everything apart and invent things phase. So his latest creation was to take his brand new Nerf squirt gun thing that he bought and hook it up to his camel pack!! It's actually pretty cool! His experiment with the surgical tubing was a bust (literally!!) and the Nerf gun water cartridges only lasted for 43 seconds (according to Alan. Did I mention the boys are obsessed with Mythbusters these days? Could be worse, right?) Anyway, the camel pack lasts 4 min. 25 seconds!!!!
SWEET!!

Scott's softball team went to the Championship game in the Gold tournament division (top for their age group)! They lost the final game, but only because two key players were missing (Scott being one of them). All the kids played their best and we were proud of them!!! The plus is that both of the teams in the final game got the same shirt, so why should we care that we didn't win, right? 
We still got the shirts!!! : ) 
Sweet victory!

Last story ~ Nathan sometimes has trouble sitting still all the way through church--imagine that! Anyway, he had a substitute Primary teacher (who fortunately has a "high energy" son like Nathan). So after church she tells me "He's so smart; he knew the answer to all the questions!" Then she says she was so impressed that he shared a story that beautifully complimented the lesson ~ on the Holy Ghost. He said that one Sunday he was lost and couldn't find the Primary room, so he went into the gym (Cultural Hall), went under a stack of chairs (I loved that part) and said a prayer that he could find the room. Then he knew just where to go because the Holy Ghost helped him! 

Now THAT is a sweet story!!! 

My sweet, sweet boys!! Nice shirts!!! ; )

  The boys didn't understand this next picture at all, 

but I think it's pretty funny!!! He! He!!

Precious!!!