Zockoll Family Reunion

It's been a while since the whole Zockoll Family has been together. It makes it harder when people start moving to other states. Because of work,school, and funds we just decided to have it here in Vegas. Who the crap had that idea? It turned out to be the hottest June we have ever had. Like 117 degrees hot. It was pretty miserable, but we had fun anyway. We rented a cabana at a hotel nearby. It was so fun. They had a slide, kiddie pool, and our cabana had misters. That was perfect for the little babies.
 Lucy and Sawyer meeting for the first time. Sawyer is exactly a week older than Lucy.

We also got together at the church for dinner and some Minute to Win it games. It turned out to be a lot of fun.

Then of course on the hottest day ever, we had a photographer take pictures of the whole clan. Holy hell it was hot. We ended up moving the pictures inside because the kids were miserable.

It was fun seeing all the cousins interact. Nick and Sammy had a lot of fun playing the older cousin role. They felt pretty important.

One night after all the kids went to bed we had all siblings and their spouses over for games. We had a blast. It was nice not having to deal with kids and being able to be kids ourselves.

My family may not be like others who are super close, but I am very grateful for them. I love them all and wouldn't want any other sibling. And of course they wouldn't want anyone else as their sister.;)Thanks Mom and Dad for a great weekend.

Scouts

Scouts scares me. It's so much info and all these rules. No, really it stresses me out. It was stressing me out so bad that I handed it over to Luke. I felt like the kids hear enough nagging from me about, cleaning, doing their homework, stop bugging their siblings, and many more things. They didn't need one more thing for me to nag them about. This way it's something for Luke to do with the boys. It bonds them together. With Nick being so involved in sports he misses scouts a lot because of practices. So Luke worked with Nick and he earned his Wolf in February. I was very proud of him for getting it done 6 months before he goes to Bears. Luke's goal is to have him be an eagle by the age of 14. That the age where kids get really disinterested and start not caring about scouts. Good luck to Luke:)

Our Pool

The past couple summers we have gone back and forth about getting an above ground pool. I have always thought they were gheeeeeeeeeeto. We have always been able to use my parents pool, and my aunt's pool. When Lucy came along I figured we would still be able to do those things. Ummmm yeah, that wasn't happening. I tried the splash parks a couple times and she was so miserable. She was so hot and it's not like she could run through the water to cool off. I knew if we didn't do something quick this summer would be miserable. We finally caved and bought a pool. LUke is amazing and busted the whole thing out in one Saturday. The prep took some time. He had to make sure the ground was level. The kids love it and we love it! It's so nice having the option to put Lucy down and letting them swim. I actually think Luke likes it more than the kids. He goes in there every night to do his water aerobics. Funny guy. I was nervous about Noah at first, but it has been fine. We got an alarm for our sliding glass door. That makes me feel a little better. It has really helped him swim. I am hoping by the end of the summer he will be swimming the length of the pool with no floaties.

 This was Lucy's first time and she wasn't so sure about it. She didn't cry, just had this concerned look the whole time. What a chubbers!!