Sprinklers

Just the kids playing in the sprinklers on a summer morning

Video here

And a ridiculously adorable picture of Corin on the trampoline, after he shed his diaper in the sprinklers:

Les Mis

Jason and I got to go see Les Miserables for a date.

So here's our date night selfie:

Terra's Birthday Party

The day after Terra's birthday we had a party for her.

For her cake she asked for a "really big, tall", purple cake with the purple and blue sixlets, a crown and a purple number 4:

I think I nailed it 

Terra decided to have a swim party, since it was June and we lived in a house with a pool, it just made sense.

Opening Presents: 

Video of us singing to Terra

Eating her fondant 4

Homemade Pinata:

Terra's Birthday

Our traditional "birthday child picks out breakfast"

Terra went for Star Wars cereal. Everyone agreed it didn't taste very good. Bu tit was sugary and fun because there were marshmallows shaped like Star Wars stuff

And an adorable video of her with her cereal

My Goofy girl

Then we went to McDonald's for lunch (we end up with a lot of junk food on birthdays)

Of course we got treats for her birthday while we were there.

A video here where the girls spent a bunch of time cleaning the floor and chairs with the hand wipes in the kids area.

Terra at four was fun and dramatic.

She had a WILD imagination. One morning I asked her if she had put her pajamas away and she replied "yes, I smashed them down into a cupcake and then I ate them" She seemed to always have some extremely creative/imaginative answer for everything.

Or nearly every morning she would tell us how she used her 'powers' during the night... things like a midnight trip to Disneyland, visiting the moon, watching a movie in the desert, growing taller than a house, etc.

The downside of the imagination, is that she would have crazy nightmares. Every night. Sometimes three or four times a night. She needed lots of love to calm down and not feel scared anymore. We both lost a lot of sleep during this phase.

She had the cutest chipmunk voice and talked non-stop.

Summer Movie Fun

We only went to a couple of movies for the summer movie fun in 2015, but I got one picture of us in the theater:

And the kids wanted a picture with the monions:

May 2015

So it seems I didn't take many pictures during May 2015, but here's what we have...

Date Night selfie, ice skating

Terra at the park

Aria at Lakeshore Learning store

Corin doing his favorite thing... playing with cars

Parker

Jason also went to ComicCon in May and he took a couple pics there:

Star Wars Day

We had gone to a Star Wars day at the library out in Surprise, and shortly after we moved in with my parents the library close to their house had a Star Wars day as well.

Parker with a Tie-fighter pilot

And Terra:

With R2-D2

Terra and a stormtrooper

Terra with a clone warrior, or something? I don't know that well...

3 Jedi's

With one of the troopers from the Forest moon

Then they had a Jedi training academy where they shot off these little rockets and jumped around on some little number tiles and such. 

And a couple videos here:

Launching rockets I & II

Han in Carbonite

And the kids playing with their newly made light sabers.

Corin and Daddy stayed at home.

The big kids and I had fun with all the Star Wars stuff

Furniture Stores

For a couple of months my kids were obsessed with furniture stores. 

We would go to the mall and they would play in the play place for a bit, but they were excited to go and play on the escalators and see the furniture in the department stores as much as anything else.

If we needed to just get otu of the house, sometimes we just went to look at furniture stores.

We do dates with our kids and Parker chose to go to look at furniture stores for one of his mommy-dates with me.

Sometimes it's the little things in life, right?

County Fair

The Maricopa County fair had a homeschool day in April 2015.

We met up with some friends and had some fun