Summer review

As usual the summer flew by and now it is October and I'm trying to remember what we did for that 2 & 1/2 months! We mostly stuck around Utah this year and enjoyed being outside. We did a lot of swimming. Tanner and Kylie were on Orem city swim team again this year and Kenzie and Maddie took swim lessons. We also had season passes to 7 Peaks (the local water park) so we spent some time there. Maddie decided she actually liked the rides this year- Kenzie still not sold on shooting yourself down a tube of water, but we are working on her. She likes to stick with the Kiddie pool.


We have a great 4th of July celebration around here and this year was even better because Hannah Montana was the concert before the fireworks. If you don't know who she is ask any pre-teen girl in the world. Well we lucked out and got great tickets and had a great time.
We finally relented and took the kids to Lagoon this summer. It was actually a lot of fun. They have lots of good rides for all age groups so everyone was happy.


Paul and Tanner went on a backpacking trip with his brother Kendal and some of his friends up into the Uintas. I was glad they made it home in one piece with no stories of Bear encounters.


Kylie had some adventures. She got to go be a nanny for a week for Paul's sister Shelly's family. Shelly was really sick with her pregnancy and needed help with the other kids so Kylie flew down there by herself and was very grownup about it all. She also went to a sleep-over camp for a week with some of her friends. Life is good when you are 11!!


Our final and somewhat last minute adventure of the summer was a trip to Minnesota to visit the Kurths- my Dad's side of the family. Paul and the kids had never been there so we were overdue. It was great to see everybody. The kids didn't know they had so many extra cousins! We even fit in a trip to the Mall of America- can't miss that! All in all a nice relaxing summer.