Reflections on a fun summer

I realize that summer actually ended a few weeks ago, but there were some fun things I wanted to remember. We got to go to a fun swimming party with Cleadus and Lisa that they had won at an auction. It was at one of their neighbors houses. It was fun! Spencer was a little unsure about the pool at first but I made him get in with Scot and soon he was loving it. Lucy didn't go in the pool at all, she just sat on the side and dangled her feet.
The three older kids had swimming lessons in August. Lucy still didn not pass the beginning level. So next year she and Spencer will be in the same class. But at least this time Lucy would get in the water without spending half the class sitting on the side. Ben also conquered the water slide and the diving board. These are big things for them.

Scot had a comp day off right before school started and we had a free pass to Discovery Gateway. So we invited my mom to come and spent the morning there. It is such a fun place. I was glad to actually get to spend some time there this time. Spencer loved the ball section. He could have spent all day there. Lucy really loves the house and store part. Ben and Spencer both loved the building parts. Emma loved the play and story parts. There was so much to do it was a lot of fun. And it was fun to have Grandma along and Dad off of work.

To finish off a fun summer we had our friend and neighbor Kenny Favero sing and play in our backyard. We invited a lot of the neighborhood and had a party. He did an awesome job and it was fun to get together. We did a couple of Adventure Days with Grandma Pam. One to see Cars 2 which we all loved and to ice cream afterwards. And another to Classic for games, bounce houses, and swimming. They were both lots of fun. My older kids love Classic because of the water slides. I hardly saw them at all and Spencer loves the little slides at the kiddie pool. Lucy even tried a couple of the blow up slides. That was huge for her.

Since Scot works downtown now we tried to go and visit him for lunch and tours of different things downtown. We toured the conference center and got to see the underground tunnels. It was a different thing to do and we liked seeing from a different perspective. And we loved having lunch with Scot.

Many of our mornings, this summer, we went on bike rides. Ben really started to get into it. Most days we would go 3-4 miles. Then we would stop and the kids would play at the park. Emma was kind of a whiner about it but the other kids really looked forward to it.

Overall it was a busier summer than I was planning on. But we had so much fun and made lots of memories!