August Awesomeness

Before we fall into autumn {like what I did there?} I thought I would do a post to highlight some of the fun our family had in August. I typically dread August because its that last month of summer where it's so hot but you are kinda over the pool, but this year it wasn't so bad. Let's see....what did we do this past month?

We made trips to the grocery store. Little man was finally able to sit up in the cart! I also have reached the point where I do not enjoy a trip to the store with one mom and two children. Back up from Daddy is always nice.

Jensen sat in the swing at the park! I have a photo in our playroom of Eva in the same swing her first summer too. 

We swam with friends! Lots of friends. And then we said goodbye because they moved away : (

I bought a plastic pool on clearance at Aldi and we enjoyed watching movies in it before it went in the backyard.

Eva did Vacation Bible School for the first time and LOVED it. She asks every week when she can go back....and it's possible we still do the VBS songs that we found on YouTube.

We served with Ryan at Hawaiian Falls. Each summer Ryan is a Connections Pastor there and this summer we had a blast serving together as a family.

We embraced "Thirsty Thursdays" when our Chick-fil-a gave away free frosted lemonades every Thursday. I miss this one already.

We visited the A-MAZ-ING new Cinemark theatre right by our house and enjoyed a free screening of Minions in 3D.

We played at the splash pad with friends. I hope these babies grow up to be best friends!!!!

We went bowling for free thanks to the summer reading program at our local library!

We went on a Mama-Daughter date to ride slides at Hawaiian Falls. I had so much fun embracing my giggly girly side with Eva that night. She is big into "dates" and loves one on one time with either me or Ryan.

We bought lots and lots of fresh peaches at the Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.

My kids wore hats....to keep the sun out of their eyes....okay really it was because they look so cute in hats! I mean, right?!

My uncle Paul came in from New Jersey and spent a fun day with us. 

We hosted youth Bible studies. This moment cracked me up...everybody got out Bibles and Ryan told them where to turn. Somebody helped Eva find the right spot and she turned and sighed, "I can't read this." It was so funny because she said it with such disappointment like she was expecting to be able to suddenly read it. 

We surprised the lifeguards and staff at Hawaiian Falls with sooooo many M&M cookies as our way of saying thanks for a great summer!

We went to a free snake show! Woah. This guy was hilarious and possibly a bit crazy. But it was very interesting and all the kids got to touch this snake.

We went to story time at the library. Wearing matching t-shirts...because you only get so many opportunities to do that when you have girl/boy kids.

We got ready for football season at Meet the Bobcats with some of our favorite cheerleaders!

Buddy prepared to become a crawler. It hasn't happened yet but oh boy, it is coming. 

And finally this handsome man took me on a wonderful date to Downtown Dallas. We walked around, ate pizza, strolled through the church I grew up in, and went to Late Nights at the DMA. 

Goodbye Summer!