Fun in the sun.

Well I have kept my poor kids indoors pretty much since we've been back from Idaho.  Other than to go to the store or other indoor places they don't step out of the house.  I have been feeling really bad about that.  I've had a really bad attitude towards this heat and it is going to get us no where.  So this morning I went for a jog as you might have read already and while I was jogging I decided that I needed to get my kids outside more.  They need more physical activity as well.  I can't only be working to making myself healthier just to leave my family behind.

So after yoga and a shower I got dressed and went to wake up my beautiful girls and low and behold they were already awake...somewhat.  So I told them that if we hurried and got dressed and ate breakfast than we could go to the park.  I was thinking the park that we can walk to but my daughter asked if we could go to the "big park".  I decided why not.  We haven't been in a while and they deserve it.

Breakfast took a little longer than I was hoping for.  We had to deal with some stubborn streaks in my daughter but eventually we got through it.  We loaded up and went to the big park a few miles down the road and they had a blast.

 Sarah really likes to ride those things.  That was the first thing she went for.

Yana is going to be just like her sister.  They both love to swing and neither of them has any fear.  Yana would giggle and giggle as she was pushed a little higher.

Sarah went down the slides and ran around and had lots of fun.  It was getting warmer and warmer so we only stayed an hour but it was worth it.  I told her that if she was good and didn't have a fit when it was time to leave then we would go again tomorrow if we could.

We will either go back to the big park or we will walk to our park.  As soon as their eye infections are gone then we will go swimming as well.  We will just do all our outdoor stuff in the morning and in the evenings right before bed. 

If any of you have good ideas for things to do indoors with kids please fill free to share.

I will be starting Sarah on her own school program next week when the school year starts here.  Nothing huge but enough to help her learn some things she needs to for next years public school system.

Severe Thunderstorm Alert!!!

Ok so I am from Idaho.  Born and raised.  I lived there for the first 21 years of my life and have since been basically around the world.  Now I live in Oklahoma with my husband and two beautiful daughters.  The weather here is nothing like what I grew up with.  For instance...there is a tornado season!  That should say it all.

Everyone said that May was the worst month in the spring and then it got bad again in the fall for about a month.  So May came and went with only a couple really good scares and here we are almost at the end of June.  We have had 2 tornado warnings this week.  Last night we were getting warnings of SEVERE THUNDERSTORM'S coming our way.  10 o'clock came and I went to bed and it was still fairly quite outside.  So thought it would be ok.  I didn't move my tomato plant to safety figuring it would be ok.  So my husband came to bed a little while later.  I was in and out of sleep while he was talking to me and then I was out again.  I woke up like 10 minutes or so later and he was gone, as was his pillow and it was like fireworks going off outside.  The lightning storm was right over top of us.  It was raining so hard. 

Ok so those of you who know me...I tend to kill plants...and I have managed to keep my tomatoes alive for a few months now...so my first thought was "this better not hurt my tomatoes".  My husband just laughs at me. 

The other thing that we do that is fairly odd I suppose is.... you know how they say to move away from the windows ....ya well we go straight for the windows.  That is the best seat in the house.

Needless to say my planter with the carrots and onions was tipped over and so was the BBQ er but my tomato plant....was the only thing upright when all was said and done. 

I loved lightning storms in Idaho but here they are a little nerve wracking because they could be accompanied by a tornado.

The worst of the storm passed and we went back to bed.