Ready or not, summer here we come

Kicking off our first week of summer vacation, I took the kids to the store to pick out new floaties for the swimming pool. Our attempt to go last week was short lived due to the lack of floatation devices. The girls picked out their own, Kaia picking pink of course and Lilee picking crazy monkeys, and I found a horsey for Connor. The kids wanted to go swimming that very minute and came home and blew up their floaties even though it was lighting outside! It took a while, but I finally convinced them to wait until the next day. We got to hear from Eric, who is doing very well at boot camp. I'm nervous that he's doing too well and is going to decide to go into the full time Army! He complains that the challenges aren't hard enough, that they don't shoot at them enough, or that it wasn't as cool as he thought it'd be! He earned a sharpshooter ranking while qualifying with his rifle, and just barley missed getting the expert ranking. He's qualified on grenades, tackled the victory tower, and passed the gas chamber. All that's left for them to do is the "war games." He's got 2 1/2-3 more weeks of basic training, then they get a week to sit around, and then he's off to advanced training. We're almost halfway done!