Summer Diary: Day 32: Free Online Books

I LOVE this site I recently discovered via Pinterest!

We Give Books has hundreds of FREE books for children to read online.

After the fam returned home early this evening from a day trip to North Platte, NE, we rummaged through the fridge for each of our dinner concoction of choice & then I read books to the girls from We Give Books. 

(I love that story "Goodnight iPad"!)

I've caught Zoey sitting at the computer reading for about an hour straight on that site.

How much do I love that?

Like, a lot.
(Any other online digital book resources I should know about? Please do share!)

 Oh, & here's another crappy animated GIF from our day in North Platte. It got up to 109 degrees people!!!! We found a park with some water stuff to play in. I jumped right in with the kids. Only adult to do so, I might add. (What were those sweaty large humans doing just standing there anyway?) One feature amongst the water spigots & spouts & sprays was a giant pail that fills with water & eventually dumps to the ground below. Well, I stood under it with Zoey. (See me clutching her tightly?) As soon as the water hit me I SCREAMED at the top of my lungs. HAHA!!! It felt so good.
When it was time to go the kids were asking "Where's our towels?"
I answered, "We don't have any. Now get in the car."
With our wet clothes to keep us cool, we all climbed back in the car & drove the 3 hour trip back home.
Don't you just love spontaneous fun??
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Summer Diary: Day 31: Swim Lessons

Although the girls are in their 2nd week of swim lessons, I thought I'd post about it just this once. 

They love swimming! And I always look forward to this activity to help fill in their weeks of summer.
An easy "something fun" to do.

Every year that they take lessons, I always get a flashback of Zoey when she was just 5 or 6 years old, running & screaming from the swim instructor because she was afraid & didn't want to go in the water.

She's come a long way.

I just started playing around with these animated GIF's.
Pazely jumping from the high dive into the pool was created at Gifninja. I did a poor, quick {crappy} job. But it's fun all the same!

I'd LOVE to be able to do THIS someday. Amanda creates spectacular cinemagraphs.  I have only recently discovered this art form. I would love to experiment & learn. 
I am in awe...

♥