More summer adventures

Summer seems to be flying by and I can't believe it is almost August. The past few weeks have been filled with some adventures , reading and lessons.
 Payton started swim lessons this week and she loves it like she did a few years ago. They made her start at level one but she is doing great and her teacher is challenging her so that is awesome. At School she got three free swimming lesson sessions so we will be doing swim lessons the rest of the summer, so I am glad she loves it. Logan was going to do it but he decided he didn't want to because he didn't know the teachers and he just wasn't sure about it. Maybe next year...
We also worked on the yard to try to make it look better since the weeds seem to take over and it looks bad. We weeded and then added some new flowers to the side yard and we will add some more soil and mulch to make it look better then the dry dirt that is there now.
Our adventures the past few weeks:
We went to the zoo to meet the new baby giraffe who was adorable. We also went to see some of our other favorites. It seemed like a lot of the animals were still sleeping so we didn't get to see as many as we would have liked.

Last weekend we went to Day out with Thomas and the kids had a lot of fun. I think this was the best year for Logan because he wanted to do everything and in years past he has shied away from some of the things.

Monday after swim lessons we went to Richmond Beach to learn about the creatures that live in the ocean. The kids had a blast and learned so much. I wanted to find tide pools or low tide times last year but just never was able to figure out when and where. This year I saw something on a parent site about exploring low tide and it lead me to the Seattle aquarium page where they had a schedule of when low tide was and what beaches to go to. They had volunteers who were there to tell you about the creatures and educate us about them. My kids want to do it again but we will have to wait until the end of August to do it.

 Sea stars

 Sea anemone

  Mr. crab hiding

I have been reading like crazy since I have had books coming in from the library. I finished the two I got a few weeks ago and I just picked up three more so lots more reading for me. I do love having so much time to read and swim lessons are a great place to get a little reading done.
Tomorrow we are going to our first Seahawks training camp and it will be fun and it will give us an idea of what it be like this year.