Hot! Summer! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

We don't mess around with Summer, you guys.

Within an hour of bidding the BEST TEACHER EVER adieu, we were at the hotel, ready to rock.  (Just in case it wasn't obvious, I didn't take this picture of the pool.  Totally stolen off the hotel website.)

And let me tell you, it was NOT that serene once we got there.  We met 5 other school friends there for a family sleepover.

Despite the fact that they went to school that day, we were still able to fit in 8 hours of swim time and a 2 hour break for dinner.  How tired were they?  SO TIRED.  I kept waiting for GG's meltdown.  It came.  The next morning.  While again in the pool.  Nothing like a temper tantrum in the pool, my friends.  But, like always, we got through it.

On Monday I rallied enough to help Ella and friends put on a Lemonade Stand in front of our house.  Our house has the best location for selling lemonade!  When the district school down the block gets out, we get some good foot traffic.  They sold $16 in lemonade at $.50/cup, which was just about perfect.  Please note the "Happy Lemon" balloons, decorated with faces, and awesome sign that Ella made ALL BY HERSELF! Hooray for happy brownies and lemons!

And I also rallied enough to take the girls to Lake Tahoe on Tuesday.  I was going to invite friends, but I didn't quite rally enough to organize that, so we went solo.  But, as I've said before, RENO IS CRAZY.  Practically everywhere we go, we will run into someone we know.  GG saw her old friend from preschool last year & they spent the afternoon playing together.  Good times had by all.  Except maybe the crawdad that I caught for the girls in the rocks with our handy dandy new fishing net.  He might have been a little freaked out.  I ended up gifting him to the little boy down the beach with the promise he'd return him to the water when he left.  Also, crawdads are GROSS.  How can people eat those things?  They're like gigantic insects.  No literally, they are GIGANTIC INSECTS THAT LIVE IN THE WATER.  Just like lobsters and shrimp.  I know insects might be the wave of the future for providing protein to a growing population, but I think I'd rather go vegan.  Is there a name for an insect free diet?  That's what I am.  And I'm starting now with a boycott of crawdad, shrimp and lobster.

Anywho, here's more pics of my cute kids in the sun.

GG art directed this one.  "Mom, take a picture of me slowly pouring sand out of this bucket!!!!"

Ella had a playdate on Friday.  They hadn't decided where they'd be going when they left, but as I got about 6 emails with a similar theme, I realized they'd gone to the Discovery Museum downtown.  Woot!!!

GG had her VERY LAST FAIRYTALE BALLET recital yesterday.  Uncle Ian, Auntie Amber and Baby Lucy joined us to watch.  It was awesome.  As always.  Their little peach dance costumes were ridiculously cute.  I think I'm going to take her to a studio & get her portrait taken.  In hopes that she can one day send it to Awkward Family Photos.  (Aren't 1/2 their pics of dance costumes?)

HAPPY SUMMER!!!!!