So much to blog about, where do I start? WARNING....there are lots of pictures!

I feel like we have been super busy this summer with just summer activities and such. But it's funny when my sis in law Meghan asked me today what we've done this summer, Camryn's reply was "NOTHING!" Really, nothing?! It made me start to think about what we have done. Now, we haven't had any trips to Disneyland or out of Utah for that matter, but I thought that we've had a pretty decent summer. I mean, my day's weren't filled with doing exactly what I wanted to do. The kids all have passes to the bubble (the local rec. center) that they have used quiet a bit, they've had park days with the cousins once a week, playing with friends and so on. But, still I was curious about just what have we done. So, I looked at our pictures to see just what we've done. Quiet frankly, I think we've done a ton! Here's a little sampling of our summer:

We took a trip (twice so far) to the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum, which is tons of fun. Even my older kids like it. We tore up our side yard and added a new parking area for all of our extra cars, (I'll tell you later about Josh trying to kill me while we were doing this!), we hosted breakfast for the seniors of Bountiful Highs Varsity football players, Dallin, Will, Josh and I went to Webelos camp with our scout group, we spent a day at Boondocks, we've gone bowling,  we celebrated my birhtday, we celebrated Josh's 40th birthday, Camryn went to scout camp for the first time with her troop, Shawna' spent two, yes, TWO whole weeks at scout camp, we went to Thanksgiving Point for $2.00 Tuesday, the kids and I went to Bountiful city's Summerfest to check out the various artist's that were there, we went camping twice, once at Lost Creek with Josh's family, then to East Canyon this last weekend, the kids all picked an art class to go do at Three Little Monkey's. Not to mention the numerous sleepovers, girls night out, and boy's night out. So, I think it's pretty safe to say that we DID NOT spend our summer doing nothing!

Here's a sampling of what we've been doing:

 Dallin with his Dragon.

 Camryn's sunset

 Will's football helmet

 The kids with their face paintings from Summerfest

 Picking Shawna' up from camp after being gone for 2 weeks

 Josh enjoying a little couch nap with the dog

 Jake, my in-laws dog, who we watched for a few days.

 My sis in law Vicki, her two kids, me and four of my kids at Thanksgiving Point going to check out the farm animals

 Cousins...Dallin and Connor

 Me and the kids

 The kids weighing themselves at Thanksgiving Point

 Petting a pony

 There were a few animals that the kids could feed some corn kernels to

 On a wagon ride

 Sammy riding the pony

Camryn riding her pony

 Celebrating my birthday

 Shawna' made me a cake...I think it turned out pretty well!

 At the Children's Museum...the ball pit

 Will playing in the water feature

 Will working in the construction zone

 Dallin and his friend Cameron buried in the construction mess

 Will building a contraption

 Camryn sending a message across the way

Camryn driving the jeep 

 Fresh raspberries from my garden

 Fresh strawberries from my garden

 Colton napping after a long day of football practice

 Connor and Will setting up their lemonade stand

 Camryn ready for her first scout camp trip

 Some of the football players for Bountiful High

 Colton and company preparing breakfast for the group

 The scouts and I out in the canoe's

 Getting ready to tear up our yard

 The kids picking up grass chunks

 Cute Raelee and Will

 Our new driveway

All finished!

Before we had the concrete poured, we had to get the area level etc. Well, Josh ended up taking out too much dirt, so my job was to bring wheelbarrow loads of dirt back down to fill in the low spots. IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY! I really thought that I was going to die...my hat goes off to anyone who has to work like that! I couldn't do it everyday!

Well, I think that's enough for now....next post will be of Josh's 40th Birthday!

Stay tuned....