Sunday, July 30, 2017

July, Over and Out

Oh dear, we're coasting down to the s-word (school). Summer has peaked, and school supplies are back in the stores. So sad. But we've kept busy enjoying summer as much as we can! It seems especially warm this summer, so we've hit up a couple of new-ish indoor spots for kids around town. One is a mini kids museum called Kids Town. The kids loved it! It has lots of opportunities for pretend play and experimentation with vacuum tubes and earthquake tables.

We also went back to the new climbing gym, this time with kid harnesses. They both had a blast, both with top-roped routes and bouldering (no rope) walls.

Baseball season finally wrapped up, but there was a week of soccer camp (O is blond 2nd from left on the bottom) with British coaches

and a week of church arts and sciences camp where they played drums and fired off bottle rockets.

There was that day we drove to Driggs to bike next to the Tetons. The kids both biked about 7.5 miles!! (Notice Hadley's bigger bike - it made a huge difference!) It was a hot day, so we cooled off with snow cones and dog sledding at the visitor's center afterwards.

On another hot afternoon, we saw the Blue Angels perform at the air show. What a great show! Though we were baking in 95-degree heat, it was worth it.

They also had several other planes doing aerial stunts, including a thumbs up, and showed off the new F-35A Lightning II jet next to the historic P-51 mustang.

They also had lots of cars and planes to check out on the ground, which the kids really enjoyed. Ka-chow!

We also had some old friends, the Tylers, from Austin visit. They are doing an epic road trip around the west, and it's so fantastic that our kids got along just swell. They go back to early diaper days together!

Meanwhile, our garden has been producing tons of strawberries, peas, parsley, and oregano; a little bit of tomatoes, radishes, beets, and lettuce; and really overdoing it on the raspberries. It's a good problem to have, I suppose.

Oh, and this happened! So proud of him for doing the hard work just to help out dad!

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