Summer Days

if there is one thing i absolutely love about being in wisconsin, it's being in madison during the summer. there are so many things to do, and it's usually great weather to do all these things. we've been back from our trip for a couple of days and slowly, getting back on schedule (mostly sleep schedules). and since isaiah and makayah are both out of school, it's the perfect chance for me to plan all sorts of fun things for us to do. this morning, we began our day at the YMCA. last year while i was preggo with samiyah, the kids and i lived at the Y. today, was our first time at the Y since isaiah got out of school. i dropped them off at child watch and then hurried off to my power pump class. since my trip, i hadn't done any weight training at all. i think i went running once. the teacher is awesomely insane. i want her body. she teaches a zumba class before this one (and i never wake up in time for it), and then she does the power pump, and i keep expecting her to just drop from exhaustion...'cause my body was about to do just that, and i don't even pile on the weights like she does. anyway, immediately after my class, we drove to the splash park. my legs were still shaking from class, and i wasn't sure how much more driving i could do. wow, i guess that 2 week vacay sure did a number. it was our first time to the splash park this summer as well. the kids bolted for the water spouts, and baby and i sat down with the other mothers from our ward and chit chatted about this and that. it was lovely. even samiyah got her toes wet. ;) at lunch time we grabbed a pizza and headed downtown to eat with daddy (sam) at the capitol. i'm so glad sam is working in madison this year. this is the first time we've had him living with us during the summer since the summer of 2008. today reminded me of when we lived in switzerland and isaiah and i would meet up with daddy downtown for lunch. it made me so happy we could do that again. after lunch, the kids and i headed over to the garden. it is finally weeded...for the most part. and now all i have to do is sow some more seeds for a september harvest seeing as we won't be here for august. the kids played on the playground by the garden and the baby slept. it was such a fun-filled and perfect summer day. i love days like this.