Finally, summer break is here!!!

We finally finished school!! We ended the school year by building a clock with all the little cogwheels and things. Great way for the boys to see how it works :-) There are no batteries in it so you have to wind it up and it lasts for six hours.

The past few weeks the boys have had a chance to go with Alex to different speeches and stay over night. First Gabriel went to Sanibel island on the Florida west coast and he got to go to a TV studio with Alex and snorkle for pretty shells the same day. Marlee went some days later and got to fly to South Dakota for a few days. This past week Noah got to go to Miami for one night and had some one on one time with farmor and farfar, in addition to pappa :-) It's s great way for them to be able to get one on one time with pappa as well as helping him as his little assistent :-) When the dynamics change at home it tends to make things easier here, too. There is less sibling rivalry when one is missing and I have been able to "keep" one child up later than the others and have some one on one time, too. Rafael gets to go sometime, too, just not over night yet. 

When Marlee went to South Dakota the other brothers built a box car from boxes! They put a piece of wood under and duck taped wheels from a pair of inlines under it. Do I have to tell you that it didn't make it very far... bit it was fun while it lasted :-)

In Miami Noah and farmor went to pick A LOT of mangoes that Noah has been selling up here on Ormond, with some help of his brothers. They are so delicious!!!

Yesterday we picked up the boat after some maintenance work and went for a boat ride. It was the first time we explored New Smyrna beach and it was the first time David got to go. It was also the first time David got to go swimming :-) He really enjoyed it!! We did see some dolphins but didn't catch rhem on camera.

Happy after his swimming session :-)

Summer is here now for sure, and the heat... We were all exhausted when we got home :-) 

After church today I'm going to a baby shower and after that it is time for me to have some one on one time with pappa :-) Alex is going to a conference in Orlando and I'm just attending the dinner tonight and staying at the hotel. I will go back home tomorrow and then probably take the boys on Tuesday to go swim at the nice pool. Alex will come home Wednesday. Tonight the boys will have a sleep over at one of their friends' house, which they all love!