Summer

Summer has been SO BUSY! I'm trying to think of what we have been doing . . . Here is a brief run down: Jakob was at Youth Conference. It was a great experience for him. I'm so glad he got a chance to go! He played Hyrum Smith in the reenactments. It was a pretty big deal in our stake. Jakob has also been busy working. I'm pretty sure he worked 1,000 hours in June. He would leave the house at 6 AM and be gone most of the day. This was a good thing for him . . . at least the paycheck was. Jakob has also started teaching piano.  Right now he only has one student, but he would like to get a few more.

Keith had to teach a lesson to the Relief Society and the Priesthood in church. Because he was teaching the women, he knew that he would need to have a centerpiece. I helped him with the idea and Corrine helped with the "arrangement" and the duct tape bow.  Pretty cute, I think.

Corrine has been busy with parade practice (learning the dance for the big parades), being in 3 different parades this summer, Beehive camp, and, on top of that, she also got called to be the Beehive Class President. Corrine got her black belt this summer and joined the robotics team PrototypeX. She also went to Oakcrest. This was a great experience for her! This is her riding up with my cousin's daughter, Ashlee. I'm so glad they spent some time together.

We had Jakob's birthday, Kate's birthday, and Hayden's birthday. Whew! We also went to Keith's summer work party, but I didn't get any pictures of that. It was at Sugarhouse Park. Jakob and Corrine couldn't go, but the other kids had fun. Hayden tried (unintentionally) to catch a Frisbee with his mouth. He lost a little blood and a tooth. It was exciting!  Hayden also learned how to drive a four-wheeler. On the 2nd day of driving, he rolled the four-wheeler on top of himself.  He got pretty banged up. Hayden also got a lesson on driving the lawn tractor, which was a little more his and my speed. I prefer him riding the lawn tractor to a four-wheeler.

 We had our very good friends, the Nyes, come for 4th of July weekend. We had so much fun with them! I should have taken more pictures, but I was busy enjoying the company! This was Kate's first fireworks show. She LOVED it.

Glow sticks are the best. You can do what ever it is that Hayden is doing here with them.  I'm sure it's cool.

My dad invited us to a BBQ party hosted by his work. The kids had SO MUCH fun! Kate loved "swimming."

Sariah and Hayden LOVED the large water bounce house!  Who wouldn't?! Here is Hayden on the slide down.

 Kate really enjoyed a sucker.  It happened to be black. What a mess.

Jakob and Keith were invited to go to the Styx concert!This is Keith & Jakob with Keiths brother, Brian and his son Ethan.

We have also been busy with church callings, many meetings for the robots team, yard work (which we are failing miserably at), lots of meetings, research on school options for Jakob, and general survival cleaning, cooking, and laundry. We have also been enjoying our backyard . . . when the temperature isn't 100+. We have had a few families over for a BBQ and it has been so nice to visit with friends.  We still have a couple of families that we need to invite but it has been crazy scheduling around busy people! Maybe we are the busy people we can't schedule around. Summer isn't even done yet!  We actually have our "summer vacation" planned for the first 2 weeks of August when Keith's sister and her family will come to stay!