Friday Favorites - Water Camera!

I'm linking up with Andrea, Narci, and Erica for Friday Favorites!

Last summer, I bought myself {THIS} water camera for my birthday.

I had been wanting one FOR.EV.ER but I just never wanted to spurlge on one...I'm a little "tight" with money sometimes - haha. But I finally figured that since we spend SO much time in the water, that I just needed to do it. It would be worth it's money. And it has been.  I absolutely LOVE {this camera.} 

Here are some pictures just in the last week that I got from my water camera!

Playing at our community pool. This was the last time that we had to use the community pool.  It really is such a pretty pool. I'm glad I got this picture. It's one of my favorites.

Swimming with one of her best friends under water... our little mermaids!

Paddleboarding!  I just took Brooklynn on this trip because I had never been to this location so I didn't know how the water would be. Normally I don't mind taking both older girls, but this was a mommy and B day.

 Swimming in the river during our "break" time.

Me playing around doing yoga on the board. That is seriously really hard to do! ha!

Another one of my favorite pictures! 

This was the day that our pool had FINALLY been filled with water and we COULD NOT SWIM IN IT. 

Oh. Em. Geeeeee! Do you know how hard that was, to keep the girls out??  Autumn was so bummed that she made a sailboat just so she could still play with the water, just not in the water.

I really love her creativity. She thought about doing this all on her own. She found a stick and decided to make a sailboat just from that! 

I did pretty well keeping the girls out of the pool but I guess I forgot to tell Champ (the puppy) to stay out of the water! haha!

Our pool is finally finished!!!!!

Here's the finished pool.

(pay no mind to the yard that still needs to be finished... that's next on the list.)

Our little turtle family... 3 babies and a mommy and daddy....

(did you see that hole in the "step?" that's for an umbrella...which is brilliant because I already used it on day one while I was sitting there with Caroline!)

And here's the nighttime version.. with the fire pit going in the back.   We still aren't finished back here. We are going to be putting in a workshop for Ron with an overhang that goes over the patio (between the firepit and the waterfall). But I don't care. All I care about is that my pool is ready to swim in!!!

Time to go swimming!

Life Lately - summer vacation week #2

Week #2 of summer vacation - we have been so busy having fun!! If we're not out having fun in the sun, then we're hanging out and working on the house or just being home and enjoying our time. Like summer time for teachers SHOULD be, right? 

Baby C has been so fun to watch. She is just such a happy baby (unless she's hungry, but I mean, who isn't crabby when they're hungry!?)

The girls can be so silly together.... sometimes not, but in this instance, they are.

Champ says, "I know there's a kid in here somewhere...I can smell her!"

Autumn has started piano lessons too.

I've been able to get my workouts in ... sometimes twice a day even! The girls are pretty good at entertaining themselves while I'm working out.

Most mornings I try to go to boot camp, but sometimes I can't since Ron doesn't get home until 7:30 some mornings.

And yoga on the beach!!

 We're STILL working in the backyard...this feels like the NEVER. ENDING. PROJECT.

Filling in the holes... even when it's raining!

We can't work fast enough though... I'm SOOO tired of having dirt in my backyard!!  Ready to put sod down. 

What??? I didn't do anything... haha!

This is how we bathe the kids...

Cleaning the packporch... this was so rewarding. The finished product after cleaning something that is so disgusting is so drastically different from the start.

Champ is actually doing much better. It's amazing how fast he has grown!  The only thing we really need to work on still is jumping on people when they come over...so annoying! and "fighting" with Pete... it's not really fighting though...

oh - and he likes to sit on EVERY one.

Autumn has also started to learn to ride her bike with no training wheels. We were kind of worried about it because Autumn does NOT like to fail... it is her competition with herself.  We had to warn her that falling a lot is going to happen.

It's a family affair... when one goes out, we all go out! ha!

Since I cleaned out the porch, now we can use it to hang out in!

Brooklynn feeding Caroline... poor Baby C. haha!

Although.. I think it's time Caroline gets her own Tervis!!  They do make sippy cups now, so I really think it's about time Caroline gets her own. I might have a problem.

Caroline LOVES the beach! She is a born natural, beach lover!  She loves the sand, the ocean, the breeze blowing in her face. I'm tellin' ya - all my girls are beach babies!

These three.... I tell ya.  They are my world... they frustrate me more than ever sometimes... but then there are times that all we do is laugh!

Luckily, smiling is more of what we do than anything else.