Catch Up

Well since my day is going to be spent listening to them tearing up my basement I figured I would catch up on my blogging, more on the basement later.

So here is what we have been up to since just before school got out.

The girls had their gymnastics Olympics. It really cracks me up how Kami is just there kind of oblivious to what is going on until they tell her to do something! She wants to start ballet in the fall which will be a much better fit for her if we can work it into the schedule.

 

 

 Kami's group with her friend London.

 

 Kaite just seemed to be having an off day, fell off the beam twice and just didn't seem to be focused. She loves doing gym twice a week now and is doing so much better. Although, she was so sore for the first couple of weeks..

 

 

 Kaite with her class. This was her last Olympics, now she competes with the team at meets all over the area, and gets to be in the parade this year!

 

 The two of them.

 

 Cute sisters

 

 Ash had her ballet recital the last day of school, they performed Aladdin. Ash was an Arabian Princess.

This first one is from dress rehearsal, it was a long 3 hours! The performance the next night went really well, except Lyvi did not like it

 

 

 

 

 

 Kenadee came with us and then spent the night.

 

 The next day we got up and went swimming. This was Lyvi's first time and she LOVED it. I wish I would have gotten a pic of Ash and Kenadee on the rock wall, everyone had a great time.

 

 Lyvi didn't like the slide very much.

 

 Keeping track of 5 girls was not so easy, good practice though!

 

 Of course we stopped at the candy shop and Lyvi got her first sucker, loved it!

 

 We got some new kittens and they have kept the girls pretty occupied. They can spend hours playing with them, keeps the house quiet.

 

 Kami had fun one day while Ash was swimming and Kaite was at gym.

 

 

Ky has been building the girls a swing set, he calls it a jungle gym. We have needed a new one for about 2 yrs now and saved up to get one but then realized they were way more than we thought. It took a little while but I talked Ky into building one. He had a lot of the wood already and we had parts from our old set so we spent way less on this one and we bought a new slide, swing, monkey bars, and a fire pole. Next year we will add a tube slide off the top platform. He is still working on it (obviously) but has already enclosed the top platform into a playhouse and started some handrail. There is still a ton to do but Ky is enjoying it and the girls love playing on it! More pics when it is done.

 

 Lyvi LOVES to swing.

 

 The girls have been enjoying the warm weather and have had some good water fights!

 

 We celebrated Father's Day which didn't go exactly as planned since I had bronchitis....we sure love you Kyle! He is the best daddy and husband EVER!

 

 Kami lost her first tooth, we had to pull it since the permanent one is already coming in, she didn't even cry though!

 

 We have spent some time at the carousel, always a favorite. Lyvi cries, so we just watch.

Now the basement......

Monday night we were out working on the swing set and came in to the entire basement in water, the carpet was floating. Turns out the sprinkler valve in front of the house was open and when Ky started the pod line at the barn water just shot out of it right into Kaite's window well for about 3 hours. Ky said it shoots about a gallon a second. What a mess! Water was just pouring in her window.

 

 Really there was water everywhere, it was so horrible! We called Ky's buddy who works for a restoration company and they came out and sucked up the water until 3am. They came back yesterday and pulled up all the carpet and padding. Since it is ditch water that came in everything within 2 ft of the floor has to go, all the sheetrock, insulation, and the carpet. So today they are cutting all the sheetrock and trashing all our year old carpet, it makes me sick really. The basement smells fine (their fans are awesome) and hopefully this will be done soon! Thankfully, no problems with the insurance and we may even get an allowance for better carpet, but if not we like our old stuff.

 

 For now all 4 girls are bunking in one room and I just can't even go downstairs, it makes me cry. My kitchen is full of food storage, but we will get through this and maybe it will look even better than before. We were really lucky the trim wasn't up yet! I hope everything is back to normal in the next three weeks!