Summer Time

We have been busy doing tons of stuff for summer. Carsyn's teacher put together a field trip to the zoo, she wanted to do it during the summer because she is going to have all the same kids in her class next year because she is looping. Carsyn was excited to see her friends, she hung out with her friend Soleil the whole time.

Here she is, my little gorilla.

Every year we go to a few of the kids camp activities that The Breeze radio station puts on. I love going, they do some fun activities, this one was to Pump it Up. The best thing about kids camp is that it is totally free and lunch is included!

Here is Caden with his cousin Issac who loves to hang out with Caden. Caden thinks he's a cool kid!

The kids waiting to go into the jumping room!

The typical pump it up picture.

Caden just had his final baseball game for the season. I am glad it's over. It started to cut into our summer. Usually the games are over when school gets out, but since the new field wasn't done they had to start the season late. This year Caden played normal baseball, no pitching machine and no tee. When the games started this season, they lasted sooo long and they were really boring since the kids were pitching and mostly walked everyone. Our team finally got the hang of it and did really well! Caden is usually the smallest on the team, this year he was the second smallest so he was happy.

Here is a picture of Caden next to a kid from the other team, I think it is funny, because he looks like a munchkin next to him! He'll get his height someday! He put his hand up to Carsyn's the other day and he was laughing because their hands are the same size!

Afterwards we went to a swim/awards party. Here he is with a few of his coaches. He played well. He stole home 2 times and made an in the park home run!

Fathers day we ate lunch with my dad and went to church with Brad's family. Everyone came except his sister that lives in Indiana.

Nixon loves playing with all of his cousins. Here he is with Easton.

The original Race Family, minus one. (Left to right) Paul, Alyson, Roy, Penny, Brad, Greg, and Andrew.

I am so excited in less than two weeks we go on a week long vacation to the beach!! I can't wait!

Family Time

My cousin Jenny and her family stopped by to visit us on their way to Virginia, they just moved back from the Netherlands. It was fun to spend time with their family and to see her two boys. We had fun at the park, my kids were so dirty after we left. This park has sand, the parks I am used to have wood chips so your feet don't get so dirty. They had fun playing with the sand though.

Nixon and Carsyn

Nixon playing with Ty.

My mom, her mom and her 3 sisters.

4 of the 7, Davies grand daughters.

The kids were all taking a picture and of course Nixon didn't want me to leave his side so, I got to be in everyones pictures!!

Nixon's New Do.

Brad has been growing Nixon's hair out for a while now. It was getting pretty long and looked cool for a while. That is until Nixon would start tucking it behind his ears and while doing so it looked like how a little girl tucks her hair behind her ears, so it had to go!

Here is a before picture.

Here is an in between picture.

And the after picture. I asked him how he wanted his haircut and he said like his cousin Easton's, so here it is buzzed just in time for summer.

After he got his hair cut I put him in the shower and as he was getting in he asked me if the shower will make his hair grow back. :) He was a little shocked to look in the mirror and see all the hair gone. He'll get used to it and I won't have to fight him in the morning, trying to spray his hair down with water!

The Start of Our Summer

These are some random pictures of some of the stuff we have been up to this summer so far. We haven't gone out of town yet, but I am dying to. At church Brad has been teaching Carsyn's class temporarily. He comes home with some funny stories that the kids tell him at church. He gets a good laugh every Sunday and then so do I when he gets home and shares with me!

Caden is still playing baseball it doesn't end until the end of June. He is enjoying it this year. The games are so long now, almost 2 hours. This is the first year he is on a team where the boy's actually pitch instead of a pitching machine, which makes for a long game of walks and you get to see your kid bat only 2 times in the game. Luckily our team has a couple good pitchers so they have been doing pretty well. Carsyn and Nixon are troopers for lasting through their brother's games twice a week! The only reason they don't mind going to the games is because they have friends to play with there!

Carsyn has money from her birthday and decided she wanted to buy a Build a Bear again, as if 6 wasn't enough! She named this one Kacey.

Caden went to his first Pine Wood Derby the other day. We had the block of wood for a couple of weeks and Brad finally got to making it, he had to call off work to finish it before the Derby started. He won one race and lost the others. He wasn't sad that he didn't win, but Brad promised him he'd make him a faster car next year!

After the Race there was a lot of treats for the kids. I couldn't find Nixon, I finally found him in one of the little rooms at the church, he was eating his treats with his little friend Kaylee. Soooo cute.