"Summer" Friday Favorites

Less than a week until Anna starts Kindergarten!  This summer really flew by.  I haven't blogged in a while because we've been enjoying all the fun summer activities.  

This summer Anna and Micaiah's favorites were:

swimming / water slides / goggles / eating at the pool / playing in the sandbox / Kids Park / Kidscape  WipeOut / Saturday morning walks with Miss Spring / playing with old friends / macaroni and cheese  peanut butter and jelly / strawberries / movies and popcorn at the Legends / making new friends  
sleeping in until 7am / losing teeth / cheese puffs and cheetos / Miss Cindy's puppies / popsicles
mint chocolate chip ice cream / hiding from Papa / surprising Papa / the wave pool
diving boards / the lazy river / water buckets / Leap Frog / twizzlers / Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips  roller skates / playing dress up / visiting Ed / swimming with Molly / making friendship bracelets dancing / singing / music concerts / fireworks / hairbands / haircuts and lollipops / pizza
racing with Dylan / Power Play / Worlds of Fun / meeting Snoopy and the Charlie Brown gang
Hello Kitty / Thomas and Friends / tickle battles with Papa / chobani yogurt / The Great Wolf Lodge with the Hardin's / bananas and peanut butter / dark chocolate raisinets / more swimming!!! 

My summertime favorites:
NO MORE DIAPERS!!!!  (yea for potty training success)
Our family photo!
And celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary!!!!!!
We celebrated with a night out on the Plaza where we enjoyed delicious food at Brio's
along with some great conversation, laughter, and even tears from laughing so hard!
Then we walked around and enjoyed the evening atmosphere
and listened to some great music.
It was a really refreshing and fun anniversary.

Micaiah's first visit to a movie theater!

(and he even sat through watching Kung Fu Panda!)

Anna's first high dive experience!!!
She was very brave...and did a great job swimming.

Anna and her two new teeth!!
Yes, she lost both bottom front teeth without crying!
When they came out, her teeth underneath were already coming through.

Micaiah enjoying the water and the slides.

With less than a week to the start of the school year, we are going to live up
every last moment of this warm sunshine!
Hope you have fun doing the same.

Friday's Favorite

This was going to be my post last Friday until "Stitches" got his stitches.

With homeschooling, comes the ability to structure our days around learning and fun.

So Fridays are (usually) field trip days!

Earlier this month, we spent the day learning about farm animals at
The Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead.
This is one of our favorite places because there is so much to do.
Not only is there a petting zoo, but there's a pond to go fishing in, pony rides,
baby goats to feed, hayrides, and lots to explore.

Isn't that the goofiest caterpillar face ever?!!  What a silly boy!

Anna enjoyed Charlotte's calves (below), and learned about milking a cow.

We got to watch Charlotte the cow being milked.
And even learned about cows having 4 stomachs.
Anna also learned that a male chicken is called a rooster,
and a female chicken is a hen.
(What?! Why does a male and female have to have different names?
Aren't they all just called chickens????
I know she was thinking this by the puzzled look on her face.)

We spent the day on one side of the park,
just to give you an idea of how big and how fun this place is.
We look forward to going back again soon.

Friday's favorites

Here are this week's favorites around the Rich home:

Peppermint Patties are my favorite.


Anna and Micaiah's favorite new hobby--sticker collecting!

Anna collects them on her bedroom wall.


Micaiah collects them on his arm!


Anna and Micaiah loving on each other.


and Micaiah's latest sad face!
(Yes, his hair is really almost white)

Happy Friday!

Friday's favorites

Here are 5 of my favorite things:

(Apple Strudel bread, found only at Costco!)

(Art and art time...or photography and photo sessions)

(Anna's artwork)

(Taking walks with the kids)

The most recent funny pic of Micaiah...he is getting really good at expressing his dissatisfaction.
In this situation, it was because he wanted me to hold him instead of take his picture. :)

I am going to keep Friday posts simple, so I'll probably just post something about my favorite things about the week. I hope to have some fun images to share from Brian's birthday celebration this weekend to post next week. I hope you get to enjoy one of your favorite things this weekend.