Summer 2012 {part 1}

This year has flown by at a crazy.insane.make it stop kinda pace. 

My babies are growing up right before my eyes. 

And I don't like it. 

I am going to try to do a quick recap of our year so far. I don't even know if anyone even still looks at this blog but I need to document this for us.   We have been so busy this year. Myles finished preschool. James graduated from High School. I finished my first year of college. Matt traveled less. Jessie turned 16. Liam turned 13. (I now have 3 teenagers) Myles turned 6. We went to the beach. We went camping. Back to school for me. James will get his mission call ANY DAY now.   See what I mean. I just want life to slow down a little. Just a little. 

Sad thing happened this summer. My computer crashed. Like dead/total loss/nothing can be done crash. I lost tons of pictures. Noah's first year. I knew better than to not have things backed up. But I never backed it up. I cried. A lot. So the only pictures that I have from that tender time are pictures I posted on my blog and on facebook.  I need to do better. 

So here it goes... 

in no particular order...

We went to Busch Gardens the beginning of August. 

It was SO MUCH FUN!

 Myles went on his very first real rollercoaster this year. Quite a feat for this kid. He was just tall enough to go on the Haunted Castle ride. He was buried into my rib cage most of the ride but when he got off he couldn't stop taking about how awesome it was. Then he went again. :)

 Noah loved the water. He had a blast at the sprayground and LOVED the observation deck at the water log ride. He must have gone back 15 times for this. LOVED it.

End of the day. Photo by Myles. 

It was super fun. Matt & I were able to take Liam, Myles and Noah. Jessie and James both had to work. Bummer for them because the next day we headed to Virginia Beach.