Summer and School

Summer was WONDERFUL!

The girls started off the summer with their dance performances. They both love to be on stage!

We left school 1 week early and headed down south. We hung out with the Heizer's and they took us rock climbing. We had a blast with them! We kept traveling south until we hit Mimi's and stayed with her for a week.

Mimi came to spend a few weeks to play and help me get the house back together. She is a Davis marching band groupie, so she goes to every parade along the Wasatch front.


You gotta have shades!

Brooke insisted on riding the bull at Texas Roadhouse even though here bday was a month before. The waitress was so nice to oblige.

St George hangin with the cuzins.

Grease Lightnin'

Ahhh Summer!

The Cave at Bear Lake

Lincoln can go to sleep anywhere and his brother wants to wrestle!

Brooke's soccer coach

Linc doing a craft

Prince Eric and Ariel

Gpa with the mustache came to visit the last weekend of summer and was here for the first day of school. The night before we had a FHE about routines and goals for the year and Daddy gave each of us father's blessings. Brooke has decided to read the B of M before she gets baptized in July just like Hayley did. We read and have fam prayer before school.

First day of school.

I miss the girls! I love having no responsibilities and a whole day to plan what fun things we can all do together. We had a fun summer. We started off with leaving school a week early to head to Cali bc of renovation madness, much to hay and bro's teacher's dismay. I think M. Simon was very upset she didn't have proper closure with Hayley. She gets Brooke this year so maybe she'll understand this year when I take them out early again....the last week is just fluff anyway-let the summer begin already!! We then stayed at Gma Maxwell's house for a few weeks while renovations were still going on. The kids had fun at there "summer camps". Brooke realized she loved soccer, Hayley was the only girl in the bball camp and "schooled" them all each day (she actually one the semi finals which means she beat all the boys except for one. (who she could've "schooled" any other day) and Lincoln had a wonderful time doing crafts and playtime. We finally moved back into our incredibly disastrous house and set forth cleaning, painting and organizing. Mom came at just the right time and saved me from insanity. We worked hard! It is now the beautiful dream I have had in my mind for the past year or more.
Other activities this summer

• Bear lake twice. One with my fam the other with Greg's.
• Hay and Bro's summer camp. Hayley insisted to Mimi that while she was with us they were to do a summer camp. They each made $20 or so! I loved seeing them try to take control and telling the kids what to do (especially when they got frustrated when the kids didnt do what they were told.
• swimming, swimming, swimming
• school time and jobs in the morning. It went so smoothly, I loved the structure (AND having slaves clean the house for me, only to mess it up again later)
• Slip n slide and baby pool at the bottom of the playground slide in the back yard with all of the kids spraying and playing with each other even Seb. Now that's summer!!
• Walks to Dicks
• Cousins play
• Hay, Bro and I "ran" the pioneer pete 1k and had the pancake bfast. MMMM!
• Girl's camp was super awesome!
• St George with cousins and Mimi at an awesome house with a pool in the backyard. Saw Little Mermaid and Grease. The girls watched the movie Grease before and memorized all the songs. I often hear them singing still.

Now for the next vaca.......Thanksgiving in Park City with the whole fam damly!

School is great and the girls love all of it. Soccer has started and so let the chaos begin!!