Summer Wrap Up

School started last week.  It has been nice to reclaim my house, a little, and exercise, a little.  As soon as Grace starts kindergarten and I can get the boys on the same afternoon nap schedule I should have a couple hours of quiet in the afternoons.  Anyways, this post is not about that, it is about what we did this summer. 

We started out in June with a great schedule.  Everyone had an individual job to do and we also had a group job.  The individual job stayed the same for a month at a time.  The group job changed each day, but was the same week to week.  Monday's were laundry day, Tuesday garbage day, Wednesday wash the floor day, etc.  So the first month worked great.  July we kind of dropped off because we were so busy with other things.  When August rolled around I was just in survival mode, ie. counting the days down till school started again.  However between June and August we had a lot of fun although we didn't go farther than Tooele.

Here are some of the fun things we did:

We went to the cabin...

with lots of different combinations of cousins...

... and friends.

We did P90X, even Joshua got into it.  Let's imagine that that is sweat all over him.  I am really not sure what it is, but it doesn't look good.

 We went canoeing on the Provo River.

We learned to sew.  The girls made pillow cases with Grandma G.

We went to soccer camp at BYU with our great friends from Arizona.

We made huge forts and slept in them.


Hung out with Kennedy's at Grandma H.'s which included racing go-carts, swimming, movies, and lunch. Also, jumping on the tramp at our house.

Visits from bbf's...

... and hanging out with them like old times.

Some of the things that we did that don't have pictures to accompany them were 7-Peaks with dad, BYU girls soccer game, sleepovers at Grandma H.'s, Cowabunga Bay, bowling at BYU, and Stadium of Fire with Carrie Underwood.  We had a great summer.  So why were the kids saying at the end of the summer 'we didn't do anything fun this summer.' 

They also each earned $50 for not watching TV all summer.  And they did great.  Except for a couple of movie nights and occasional TV at a friends house or grandma's (they had to call to ask permission first) they never even asked for TV.  It was the best spent $50 ever!  I loved not having the TV blaring all day and the fight to turn it off.  We have decided that we are going to keep it going, no TV except on weekends.  We will make exceptions for American Idol, but besides that notta.