Summer so far

School ended with a productive 8-9:30 am day on June 3. Summer is here, now what?!?

Sarah & Mason both picked out their last day of school finery.


Mason had two different friends over during the course of the day, so did Sarah & Emma. It was crazy but fun!

Mason & Andrew were trying to make a mud pit for his monster truck to drive through. Mitchell was in on the action. He was covered in mud so Mason squirted him off. They day was not that warm but Mitchell did not mind a bit.

Mason had belt promotion that night. His cousin Jonah also takes karate.
That night Sarah & Mason went swimming for the karate swim party. We were there until 11. It was a great way to start summer.

The next day they did not know what to do with themselves. Great. We went to the rec center pool.

A few days later on Monday I braved Seven Peaks water park with all four kids by myself. It worked out fine. We'd only planned to stay for a few hours. The weather turned bad around the time I'd wanted to leave so it made for an easy out without anyone complaining.
On Wednesday we headed to Lagoon with my side of the family. It started out great. Not too hot & the lines were not too bad.
Mitchell spent the day in his stroller (here he is digging for gold).
Some of our crowd on Colosus.
Sarah's not a roller coaster fan so she took Emma & Ava on the Music Express. They were funny to watch.

By dinner time Mitchell was wanting out of his stroller.
Emma was a much better bumper car driver this year.

We had dinner as a storm rolled in & did not want to roll out. It was cold & windy & pouring rain. Mitchell did not mind because he was finally out of his stroller.
We were all soaked by the time we got to our car.

The day after Lagoon Todd took Mason to the sand dunes for a day of ATV riding.
Sarah got Emma all dressed up.
Sarah had a Jazz recital on Saturday. She performed in two numbers & did great.
Her friend Kaitlyn was in a different jazz class.
Sarah & Allie goofing off after Sarah's recital.

That was the first week of summer. Pretty busy I'd say. My kids would say otherwise since as soon as we had a down moment they'd ask what they could do.

This week Mason had Karate Kamp each day from 9-1. He loved it.

We braved swimming at the rec center with some friends on Tuesday. I can handle them all as long as Mitchell & Emma are wearing life jackets!
This was Mitchell before swimming, all worn out!

On Wednesday we left the house at 7:45 am to get Sarah to her ballet dress rehearsal in Provo. Then we head back to AF to get Mason to karate kamp, then back to Provo to get Sarah. Then later back again to get Mason. It was crazy!

Today Mason was going to test to get his purple belt in karate. That was part of karate kamp. Instead he has the stomach flu, so we spent the day at home.

Sarah was ticked about Mason being sick because she was going to have Mary Jane sleep over tonight then go to her ballet recital tomorrow. No such luck.

I'm just hoping nobody else gets sick & that we can keep having a fun & busy summer!