You know you're tired when

you fall asleep between dinner and ice cream.

My last 4 children have not been the type to simply fall asleep when they are tired - Emmie in particular.

Outgrowing naps is tough.

Look Ma!

When you have really awesome neighbors, you may look outside one day and see this:

Last summer Camden tried riding sans training wheels and just wasn't mentally ready.  Today our neighbor Heidi was helping her grandson learn to ride without training wheels and Camden decided that he was ready.  In the time that I went inside to check on dinner, Heidi had removed his wheels and he was riding!

Wrapping up the school year

A lot of stress for one last art project...

Make a 3 foot square logo - Hannah chose Trivia Crack and the smiley face really spins!

A bunch of boys and a bunch of math books...

Jake's buddies burning their math workbooks on the last day of school.  They roasted hot dogs and s'mores and played night games.  Tyler is one patient dad - he was the safety patrol for the pyromaniacs.

and the school year went up in flames!