Monday errands

Mondays can be SO busy, I usually end up running errands and today was no exception. we have to start out with the "fun" errand. Our Library does a summer program. I decided this year to enroll the kids. They have to read 90 minutes a week to be entered into a drawing, once they hit 300 minutes they get prizes, then 500 minutes then 1000 minutes. My kids got their 300 minutes and are just shy the 500 minutes. But hey this is week 3 of reading so I am counting on them doing what they need to. They also get a book at 300 minutes, makes it well worth the $5 per kid!!! There is also some summer fun days, today was chalk day, they got to color all over the sidewalk and little patio at the library. They had a bunch of fun. It is also an excuse to get out of the house and they are able to go get new books weekly. Today they took longer because next week it is the city celebration (Steele Days) so the library won't be open. I wanted them to get enough books to last 2 weeks. That can be hard since we can only get up to 40 books for 6 of us.
Each kid with their book and prize


Then all the "boring" errands, like getting groceries and other things I need to do. I like to try to do this on Monday because the rest of my weeks gets so busy with Scouts, presidency meeting and who knows what else.

We are excited for next week since it is the 4th of July and we get to have a 3 day weekend with dad and have some fun. The kids are looking forward to fireworks, a slumber party at Grandmas, breakfast on the 4th and fun all day long just playing and having fun.

We are excited for July since there will be some fun stuff going on, but sad because that means that summer is coming to an end. I admit at first I was not excited for summer, it is a lot harder doing my calling with all the kids home. But now most of the time we are enjoying some fun times. The other bad things is how HOT it is. It is so hard to get outside and play with how hot it is but we try to do a little outside.

So that is our Monday.
And here is Miss M being a ham for the camera