Summertime Recap 2011

Summer 2011 is gone.  Sad.  I LOVE summer.  I don't look forward to school starting.

I thought I'd put together a little highlight section to remind me what we did.

As I get older, I realize that time kind of blurs together. 

Good thing we have digital cameras!

Gavin made his own Angry Birds game.  Just in front of him is our strawberry patch.

The first half of the summer we really had a problem with birds eating our strawberries!

Gavin loved to chance them away when he could find them. 

Now the birds are gone and we are overloaded with strawberries!

 In June, we went to the Orem Summerfest Parade. 

Very nice weather and fun time, but we missed our Liam.

He was out of town during our traditional parade and fireworks.

 Gavin risked his life to get a lot of treats from the road.

Spent some time at the park next to our neighborhood school. 

Gavin liked visiting where he will go to kindergarten.

We did the slip and slide at my sister's house a couple of times.

The second time, Liam ended up getting a large scrape down his back.

We turn on the sprinkling system to get the most water on the slide, but he went off the slide

and right over a sprinkler head with his back!  OUCH!

We had the Utah County Pass of All Passes this year.

We spent a lot of time at Seven Peaks, as usual.

Jim and I attended the Pioneer Day Patriot Program

at the Conference Center with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The last week of July Liam went to Youth Conference with our ward

down in Bryce Canyon at Pine Lake Campground.  He had a good time. 

They did a really long bike ride and his bike ended up a little muddy.

 Jim's work had a party at Boondocks.  We got an unlimited pass and spent several hours playing.

It was really fun, they even provided dinner.  We rarely do things like this as a whole family. 

Liam's getting out of this bumper boat after getting SOAKED.  I was on for only a minute because a grown woman that I didn't know was after me trying to soak me.  Who does that??

Gavin did race cars with dad.

Gavin in the 4D Theater watching the Haunted Mine.

That was the first time I've been in one of those and they are crazy!

Well, I guess that Star Wars ride at Disneyland is like that, but I hate that ride.

Liam spending his tokens and avoiding his mom with the camera.

Jim and I celebrated our 6th anniversary in August.

My cousin did my hair - curls!  Not something you will normally see on my head.

We went to eat at Texas Roadhouse and then saw the new Planet of the Apes movie.

Excuse the blurry photo.  Liam is now in a digital photo class.

With our Pass of All Passes we got into Trafalga Lehi.

Gavin and Asher liked the airplanes.

Trevan and Liam avoided their moms.

Gavin on his first merry-go-round ride.

Our Stake has a summer party every year.  We had a big picnic at Scera Park

and then they rent out the pool from 8 to 10, a little late for tiny kids but oh well.

Liam went home for a neighborhood outdoor movie party.

Gavin braved the chilly air and wanted to swim.

Jim didn't feel great so I ended up in a swimming suit in front of everyone!

It was a fun, but pretty typical summer.  No vacation for us. 

Well, Liam got a vacation to Kentucky but the rest of us got to stick around Utah.

We did the Scera summer movie season again.

I miss summer.  I miss sleeping in.  I miss doing fun things.

But I also LOVE fall.  I can see the trees in the mountains are turning bright red.

Plus, it's just over a month until HALLOWEEN!