Summer in VA!

I can't believe we have already been here for 2 months and we only have 2 more to go before we get to come home! Time is flying by and although we haven't done anything terribly exciting, we've been staying busy and having fun out here on the east coast. It has been hot the whole time we have been here and now it's almost unbearably hot...most days it is in the upper 90's and we have been at 100% humidity for a while - ouch! We have a pool at our apartment complex, but it really isn't made for a mom with 3 small children who can't really swim on their own, so we joined the YMCA for the summer and have been using the pool there since there is a kiddie pool and a very shallow end in the big pool. The kids love the pool and I'm glad since there is pretty much nothing else to do outside without melting! Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures from the pool because I don't have enough hands or room in the bag for our camera!

Savannah and Paris continue to be best friends and I am so grateful that they play together so well...they keep each other very entertained even though we weren't able to bring many toys with us for the summer. They have wonderful imaginations and are always pretending something...lately they have been acting out "The Little Mermaid" several times a day...they know all the parts amazingly well for not really having watched the movie very many times. Above all, these girls love to color! I can't tell you how many sheets of paper we have gone through, but they never get tired of coloring.

This is a small sample of the coloring they have done...they color these Strawberry Shortcake characters and then Savannah cuts them out to make 'dolls' to play with. We probably have more than a hundred...easily.

The ward here has been amazing and super friendly so we have been able to meet lots of new friends and we have have been able to have lots of play dates at parks and houses that have lots of fun toys...we will really miss this ward when we move back to UT.

Madison continues to grow and get even cuter and smilier every day. We put her in the Jumperoo yesterday for the first time...she's still a little too short to actually be able to jump, but she loved it!