I've been meaning to write this post for about a month, but I figure that it's still good to post this now before summer is officially over next week. However, I think summer ends with the first day of school, so I'm stretching it a little bit. In my mind this post would just be a slideshow of pictures with Will Smith's "Summertime" playing in the background. I'm not that computer savvy, though I know I could figure it out eventually, but then this post would be delayed even longer and it wouldn't even be September when I would get it posted. So if you know the song, hum it to yourself as you read.
Summer is about being hot and cooling off in the water. We did plenty of this. It seemed like every week we got to go swimming someplace. Sara and Aaron both got more confident in the water. Aaron loves jumping off the side of the pool over and over again and Sara passed level 2 swimming lessons on her very first try.
Way back in June, Aaron turned 3. We had a little family party a few days before his birthday because we left for California on his actual birthday. He got lots of toy cars, which he LOVES. To this day, all he really plays with are his cars. He even sleeps with them. He also got two Zhu Zhu pets and he loves them almost as much as the cars. He named them Jim-Jim and Bob-Bob. He cracks me up so much! Look at how he is loving his pet. That's Bob-Bob he's holding, by the way.
And then we went swimming some more.
Sara played T-ball with the city this year. It was fun to see her get so excited for this. One thing that I love about her is that she always wants to try new sports. I hated anything to do with sports when I was a kid, so I know she gets this from her dad. Now she is doing gymnastics and wants to do basketball to. Busy girl!!
I couldn't write about summer without mentioning the 4th of July. We have a family tradition of holding a "war" during the day. We have a yummy lunch and stuff ourselves silly. Then we go outside and set up little green army guys and other small toys and use tanks and other fireworks to attack them. It is always a great time. Sara doesn't really like the noise, or the fire, or the smell so she usually watches from the window insead with her fingers in her ears. Aaron thought "The War" was cool. We haven't attempted to go someplace to watch the big fireworks at night because we know that Sara won't like it, but maybe someday....
What else did we do? We went swimming!
We went to Sun Valley, Idaho for a weekend in August. Than had a work conference there and we all got to go with. It was just the 4 of us and it was so fun. One day while he was in classes, Sara and I rented bikes and we peddled around the town with Aaron in a carrier behind me. We probably rode our bikes for 3 hours with just little breaks here and there. Sara thought it was the coolest thing. She loves to ride her bike at home, however, that's just a block to a friends house or around our street. In Idaho she rode for at least 5 miles. Another day we road a gondola thing up a mountain and had the most yummy lunch. I don't normally mention things like this but I had a lamb burger with melted brie cheese and carmelized onions on it. It was the best burger EVER! After lunch we rode the ski lift to the top of the mountain and walked around. Maybe we are wimps because Than and I were totally scared riding up in the lift and petrified that our kids would fall off. Were the kids scared? No way!
While we were away having all our fun in Idaho, we got a new niece and cousin back at home. We were so sad we couldn't be there right away. When we finally got home, we went straight to Joe and Kariann's and met little Brooklyn.
We didn't work terribly hard though. We planted a garden at the beginning of the summer and sometimes didn't check it as often as we should have. But a 2 foot long zucchini looks cool even if it doesn't taste the best.
And soon, school was about to start and we were busy buying supplies and clothes and going to 2 buck Tuesday at Thanksgiving Point. We had the most fun and busiest summer ever and we loved every minute of it!
