mondays.

You gotta love Monday's when.....

You're still recovering from a long, draining, exhausting Sunday the day before (besides it being a wonderful Father's Day!)
You're required to log at least 6 hours on the computer for work and the rest of the department is on vacation so you're covering their work too
You have mounds of laundry, piles of dishes, toys seeping from the cracks of your house (where did they all come from?) and you still have to clean the bathrooms....the worst chore on the face of the planet
There are bills to pay, mail to go through and countless unattended emails
You can't stop thinking about leaving town for 4 days at the end of next week even though you just got back from a 5 day trip to California with your mom and sisters
and
You're trying to work your 6 hours at home with two boys because their favorite playmate is away at Girl's Camp and they are left to fend for themselvesHey, you might be laughing but this was a good hour of entertainment. I'll take what I can get!

All in a days work

Waking up early. Donuts in the car. Gardening service. At the Mesa Temple. On a (blistering) Saturday morning. With the boys I love.

I'm so blessed.

swim. trunks.

When it comes to buying things for the boys, there are a few items that I am a complete and hopeless sucker for. Hoodie sweatshirts are one of those things. I can't resist them. Hot wheels are another. Have you seen how any styles of cars there are? A boy can never have too many. Crazy, twisty, colorful plastic straws are a must. They are just so fun and make drinking from a cup way more cool. And always, always swim trucks. I am a total sucker for swim trunks. The boys have dozens, literally dozens of trunks. I can't walk by a rack without stopping. And I can't walk away from a rack without buying. But trust me, they never go to waste. They always wear them. Daily. In AZ, swim trunks are a necessity.

The past few weeks the boys have been taking swim lessons and putting all those swim trunks to good use before the official first day of summer. For Dax, things were a refresher. He was ready to go right off the bat and kept getting in trouble for not staying on the step when it wasn't his turn. I can't blame him though, he just wanted to swim. For Wyatt, these were his first lessons and although the first couple of days he would have rather been doing anything else, by day three he was having fun and learning all he needed to be safe. Both boys float, kick like maniacs, are pros on the paddle board, jump from the edge and can find the wall, and can dive for rings.

Now that Memorial Day is over, we're well into 100 degree weather, and we're all pool safe, we couldn't be more ready to spend our days playing in the pool.

So.....whose can we borrow?