Rewind

It is time for school to start and I need to catch up on all of our summer fun!  It seems like it flew by so fast this year!!

A big chunk of our time was spent visiting family and friends in Utah ... so I will start there.
Visiting with GG's is always one of our first stops - we love to see them and visit over lunch and a game of dominoes.

Since it was July there were plenty of FiReWoRKS!   We did 2 shows - One was so that pyro-boy could light off fireworks before EFY ...  and the other was up Morgan's 4th of July Celebration!

The little boys yelled "Bravo, Bravo!"

 Pyro-Boy! Loved his blow torch and the new aerial fireworks that Utah allowed this year :)

Morgan's Celebration featured Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson ... followed by fireworks.  The show was aMaZing and of course we are all BiG fans (Steven G. is their biggest fan so we were sad he wasn't there too).   Afterwards we met them and the kids got their hands signed and swore to never wash them off!!

My kids think it is so interesting that they put letters on the mountains - I grew up around it so it is not such a novelty!  M is for Morgan!!

Ben and 3 of his friends went to EFY and although he was tight lipped about the details of the week, saying his usual "Good", "Fine" etc. to all my questions - he did say that we would like to go back.   Here is the one picture he took of his group on their way to the dance
(love how Zach got him all decked out for the event - nice tie!)

After EFY Ben flew back home to attend High School Soccer Camp.

Susie and her cousins Marcee and Bethany attended a 4H cooking camp for a few days.  They made ice cream, butter, bread, bread sculptures, and learned cake decorating techniques.

While they did that I took the little boys to Morgan's bike ramp park.  Pure heaven for little Sambo our future BMX racer...

A One Handed Trick by J.J. 

 Best Buddies

Big Air by Sambo

Followed by lunch at Steph's with Tangee's for dessert (of course)! YuMMy!

Next on our list of fun was a trip to Provo to go to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point, do some school shopping and eat dinner at The Brick Oven!

 Paleontologist's in training

Loved spending the morning with our friends the Garcia's!

In between there was FRieNDS and FeaTHeRS!  Lots of talking and laughing (not a lot of picture taking), we miss the LaPray's!

Susie was able to sneak in a sleepover with MiLLie!

Finally, on one of our last days we took the kids LaGooN! Quintessential Utah, for sure!

{Whew!  A little exhausted just by the recap, and that was only 2 1/2 weeks of the summer :)}