Summer has been a whirlwind so far so I thought I would catch up with some of our happenings...The day after getting back from Las Vegas the kids started swimming lessons. It was SO COLD outside. I thought for sure that lessons would be cancelled the days that it was raining and only 45-50 degrees out! It practically snowed! The pool water was very steamy and I sat trying to read while FREEZING!!! (I did finally finish The Host-and LOVED it!) We all survived-with colds- but it got better. No pictures though! The boys also started their tennis lessons the first day of swimming and had their last lesson today. They were really good to get themselves up and ride to the park for 8am lessons. (We only slept in one day!) They enjoyed it again but no pictures. We have been going to the Library on Tuesdays and to the Scera summer movie series on Wednesdays. No pictures. It has finally been warm enough to use our pool pass to go swimming and just have fun. We have watched movies in our park with friends and neighbors and have finally enjoyed the warm up enough to get our new front door in. We had fun having Jess here for the week that Jeannie and Brent were in Canada and have consistently had 5-9 kids here for sleepovers, meals and play.
Jace turned 12 on Father's Day this year so we celebrated his birthday the day before. I was in charge of the Primary activity that morning, but in the afternoon Ben and Mike took Jace, Tanner, Jess and 4 other friends to play glow-in-the-dark golf at Trafalga. They had fun and came back for cake, ice cream and presents...Thank you everyone! We celebrated Father's Day with breakfast in bed for Ben and all the usual hooplah! Of course we forgot to take pictures. Emma and Lauren made him some fabulous "ties" at our Primary activity the day before that he wore to church...so we'll have to remember to take pictures of them on another time...and we enjoyed dinner and G&G Livingstone's.
Earlier in the week Ben was off on their Handcart Trek. They had about 140 youth and several leaders and had a really good experience. Everything he had worked on since January came together and was great I hear. I was able to surprise Ben by traveling out to the site with a friend to meet the incoming "pioneers".
