What IS that purple thingy in her hair, you ask?  Why, that is a little hair feather do-dad.  Not that she needed anything extra to add to her already over the top cuteness.  But our friend who owns the Thousand Oaks Beauty Collection offered them to the girls as a gift, and who can say NO to that?

This photo clearly shows the attitude that they each present me with on any given day.  Perhaps I can avoid these lovely attitudes by having an array of activities each and every day so they don’t have time to get cranky.  It could happen, ya never know!  

What are YOU going to be doing with your kids this summer?  I thought, briefly, about putting my 5 and 6 year olds in a summer camp from 9-noon 3 days a week. Then I decided that summer is so short that I should make it an extra special time with lots of fun activities for all 3 kiddos.  Savannah will be going into 1st grade in the fall and William into Kindergarden.  At the end of the summer I will be a mom with only one kid at home (during school hours) for the first time in 5 years.  It seems unreal.  I don’t know what Scarlett and I will do!

If any of you have some good ideas, fun activities that would entertain a 2 year old, 5 year old and a 6 year old, please share them with me!  We will be spending a lot of time at the beach and perhaps the Santa Barbara Zoo as well.  Perhaps we’ll keep a journal, one for each of the kids, to keep track of what they see during each visit to the beach or zoo or (insert other ideas here).

I love their coffee table book.  I wish I had one for myself!

William helped Grandpa drive his super big tractor!   I’m not sure, but I think he had fun.

Savannah wasn’t too sure about driving a tractor that big.  So she found some fun in the field.  What child hasn’t helped spread dandelion seeds everywhere?

Can you see the seeds blowing away in the wind?

Wow!  That’s a BIG truck!  William checks out Grandpa’s semi truck that he uses for hauling wheat (and corn? and sunflower seeds?).

Scarlett gets a turn at the wheel of the big rig.

As long as there is no one in the drivers seat, and no key in the ignition, I’ll stand up here.  

Okay everyone!  Whatever you do, make sure you DON’T LOOK AT THE CAMERA! LOL

So I can only see 1 eye in this photo, I see one great smile on Grandpa’s face.  That’s all that matters.  Right?

I’m not sure what they were saying here, but it sure looks like they were having fun.

Quick!  Before she unscrews the lugnuts!

Me?  Lil ol’ me?

Oh how this lil face melts my heart.

Savannah wanted to paint her pumpkin.

William prefers the carved pumpkin.  Thankfully he was happy with just having the top part cut off.  Much easier to manage that request while managing the newsstand and caring for 3 wild kids.

Can you tell he was excited about his pumpkin? (p.s. taking photos in the dark with a wiggly 20 month old on my front *thanks to the wonderful babyhawk*, isn’t exactly easy)

Scarlett was perfectly content eating chippies from “the chippy restaurant” (Chipotle) (BTW: I didn’t let my first or second child have tortilla chips until they were at least two years old.  Scarlett, well that’s another story.  She’s the third, what more can I say?)

Then, just as we were getting ready to go, they found a bug.  Looks like a grasshopper, sort of.  I’m not sure what it is.  But one thing is for sure, it was a whole lot of fun for these two.

Here’s Scarlett just naturally laying here very Vogue-like.  This was not posed, mind you.  She likes to find places to lay down and this pumpkin was one of those places she thought would be a comfy spot to take a lil rest.

(these are straight out of the camera, no adjustments as I am currently without any photo editing software)

And here I must have asked her something because she is holding up her hands saying, “I no no?!”  (I don’t know.)

And this lil girl, who isn’t so little anymore.  She is sweet as can be, most of the time.    Watch out though!  Because when she gets in one of ‘those’ moods….it is NOT fun!

Up until this year Savannah did not want me to take her picture.  This year she has done a complete 180 and has decided she should be in all the photos!  Here she was telling me, “Take my picture, Mom!”  No posing from me.

And the sweetest boy ever!  Here he is picking out his pumpkin, or maybe he was just showing me how strong he is.  Or both!

I hope you don’t mind looking at this side ways!  Until I get photoshop my photos will be remaining SOOC. (straight out of the camera)  Your chiropractor can thank me later.  

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Scarlett’s favorite is the french fries.  She loves the meat patties too but was unsure how she was supposed to take a bite of the hamburger.  This was actually her first time having a hamburger WITH a bun.  The older kids are now glutten free and so Scarlett has never experienced the bun….until now, that is. 

And here’s William’s before and after photo.