Back to School

We are back to school once again and things are sure different this year. Ethan is now a 7th grader, if you can believe that! He gets to get up early and ride the bus to school everyday, (not sure how long the excitement will last)  and he gets to go to 6 different periods each day with all different teachers. Today went smoothly and he didn't have any complaints, so far so good. I am going to try to snap a picture of him tomorrow getting on the bus...he he he :)

Elijah did not want to go back to school today, but once we arrived he didn't throw a fit and went right into his preschool class!!

Ella is always ready for school until we get there and then she grabs onto my leg and doesn't let go....why does this always happen to me. I want to be the dad sometimes and just wave goodbye like they do with him.

Well I didn't win the mom of the year award today and post back to school pictures like all my friends, but I had a good excuse..our carpet arrived today!!! I have been waiting for this day for the past three years. Pictures to follow

Ethan Wakeboarding for the first time

sorry this is sideways

Fun on the Lake

Yesterday we had a chance to go boating out on lake CDA with a good friend of mine from college and the kids and I had such a good time. Ella surprised me the most, I thought she would be scared, but it was just the opposite she was yelling and laughing and dancing the whole time. Elijah and Ella wouldn't get in the water, but the rest of us did and we had a blast, Ethan and I even tried wakeboarding for the first time...we need more practice!

Here are some pictures from our fun filled adventure :)

getting ready to head out on the water

 Ella wanted to drive most of the time so we let her try it out for a little bit

 This is as close to the water as Elijah got

 they wanted to sit at the front of the boat and Elijah was cheering the whole time

 we took a break to stop in at Eddie's and eat

 Ethan getting the wake board on his feet

in the water ready to go...I will post the video of him

staining fence

 Eli was my little helper this week when I was staining the fence, we finished 2 sides of the fence!

Horses

A friend of mine let us come over and see her horses and Elijah was so excited that he was able to ride around on one. Here is a pictures of the day...afterwards we visited and picked raspberries. Yum Yum!

Kiwana's Sprint Triathalon

Finished my second sprint triathalon today out in Medical Lake! My time improved a lot due to the shorter swim (I am a terrible swimmer) and I am pretty sure my bike was faster too. I think I need to be doing more than one a year and I need to get my own road bike. I am going to keep working at it!!

U District 5 K

I have started the summer 5 K series again, hoping to get back into running again. Here are the three of us from last year back at it again.

Shawna, Susy and me

Surviving Silverwood another year

We started with the little kid rides, here are the planes

 Then we did a little bit bigger rides

 Ella was mad she couldn't go on the swing ride with the boys since she was too short

 another kid ride for Ella and Elijah

 train roller coaster, Eli is having a blast!

 helicopter ride, they were fighting over who was going to steer the ride, Ella won

 toddler springs, Ella's favorite part of the day. Chris and Ethan went on the tube rides while we were at Boulder Beach

 this is the ride that gets you pretty wet

Eli on the slides at Boulder Beach

All in all it was a good day, about 73 degrees so not too hot, but the water wasn't very warm. The kids had fun and Elijah almost got to go on the rollercoasters to end the evening, but he was 2 inches too short. Next year for sure.

Skyhigh

I didn't get many pictures of anyone jumping because they all came out blury. I guess I do not know how to capture shots on the trampoline. Here are a few pictures that I did get.

 Ethan's 12th Birthday Party at Skyhigh

 Logan, Hunter, Wealthy, and Cade came to celebrate with Ethan

Ella trying to jump with Ethan

Skyhawks Soccer Camp

Eli scored 4 goals in his game on Friday...now he just needs to learn how to pass to his team instead of stealing the ball away from them.

Elijah having fun at soccer camp this week

Cheney 3 on 3 Tournament

Ethan played in the Cheney 3 on 3 Shootout this weekend and his team placed first in their bracket!

Way to go Blue Thunder

winners

VBS

Elijah has been having such a great week at Vacation Bible School, I am so glad we signed him up. They got their shirts today and he was very excited to show it to me when I picked him up today.

They both posed for me wearing the panda mask Elijah made today

Potty Chair

Ella's potty chair came today and we set it up in the bathroom and practiced sitting on it a little already. You should have seen her face when I took it out of the box. Here is what it looks like....so exciting to almost be out of diapers in the Florko household!!!!!

Elijah turns 4

Elijah turned 4 yesterday and we had two of his good friends over to sing happy birthday last night. We had cake and played with toys outside.

4th of July

We decorated our wagon this year with stuff around the house, nothing fancy. This is the first year we have done the entire neighborhood parade from beginning to end, it was fun, but too long for Eli to make on his bike. This is also the first year that Eli has seen the fire hose spray water from the truck. We had a lot of fun all morning, Boo even ran through the water with me.

 ready to go in our parade transportation

 waiting for the truck to start the parade

here we go

                                                      the truck is setting up the water hose

 well worth the wait, popsicles

        Eli sitting in the drivers seat

Water Water

Eli finally got brave enough to ride partly through the spray and there was a rainbow :)

I tried to get a picture with Ella but she was busy looking around