Activities

We are involved in a million activities. I often debate quitting all of them so that we have more time to just be at home. But then don't know what to cut out. Ashley swims. So do Mia and Katelyn. Justin tried swim. Ashley does piano and diligently practices an hour every day. Katelyn and Mia both take piano. Justin takes viola, although he is begging to quit. Justin did basketball. Ashley is starting volleyball. She also does junior librarian at school. Ashley and Katelyn both do activity days at church. Justin is starting cub scouts. Mia does gymnastics. Katelyn takes an art class. So it's common for my afternoon calendar on my phone to look like this. 

Liam hears so much piano practice every day. Maybe he will be a musical prodigy?

Cramming dinner time into our activity-filled schedule can be difficult. Mia and Justin are eating before basketball and gymnastics. Liam likes to eat whenever anyone else is eating.

Swim team at the Wolf Ranch pool. They are great swimmers. Justin and Mia swim twice a week for 30 minutes. Katelyn swims twice a week for an hour and Ashley swims 3-4 times per week for 2 hours.

Justin playing his viola.

Liam likes to swim when the other kids are.

Here we are waiting at the school for Ashley to finish Junior Librarians.

Mia got moved up to level 1 Gymstars at Aerials. She drank this milk shake as a "way to go." She came home and threw it all up though. She can do her cartwheel on the high skinny beam, a million pull ups, and a back handspring. Her goal, she tells me, is to win more medals then Katelyn.

With all that swimming we go through way too many pairs of goggles.

Sometimes we have time to play. Liam is a good sport.

We also bake a lot. Too much, probably. Here Ashley is with cookies. And she's sporting her new braces!

We also do a lot of activities that aren't scheduled like going to trampoline world and Lifetime to rock climb. 

Bad picture, but it's my 4 older kids playing 4 square. I love when they play together.

Katelyn showed Justin how to make a bag out of duct tape. Lots of crafting activities in our house. In fact, right now Ashley and Katelyn are sewing bags and Justin and Mia are making a house out of a cardboard box.

Liam hangs out in the music room a lot. He loves to play the guitar. Hans bought himself a guitar as his midlife crisis. He practices occasionally.