We made it through summer in one piece. Here are some pictures of our last few weeks before school started. Scott and John color coordinated one weekend morning.
Emma cleaned her bedroom all on her own.
Grant and John's room needs the most cleaning help, but there were having fun playing with Legos in there on lots of mornings.
Anna isn't happy unless her room is clean. Here she is building some Legos.
Matthew went to boy scout camp for a week near Grand Teton National Park. He was pretty beat when he got back. He decided he'd pass on the deacons campout the following weekend.
Too much camping!
Anna made Lego people of Grandma and Grandpa Keeler
The sunflowers started to bloom in the back garden
We got to visit with my sister and her family when they came down from Washington for a visit.
Emma dressed up like Elsa a lot
Here she even has icy blue lips
It felt miserably hot most of the summer...and not we have mosquitos too.
But at least we have fewer wasps than last year. 105 is too hot...even if it is a dry heat.
Our yard woes continue
We have a leaner nectarine tree
We're trying to stabilize it
A lot of our grass is dying in the heat in spite of lots of watering
Anna has trouble finding breakfast foods that she likes.
One morning I taught her how to make an omelette.
Her omelette looked better than mine. She ate half of it.
Getting shave ice one afternoon
Red teeth!
Starting to think about fall, but its still so hot!
Got the boys haircuts for school
We went to the local farmer's market and Matthew won a free Dole Whip because he located the hidden pineapple in the market. He shared with Anna.
We bought another one for the other kids to share
Playing in the field at the market
Hard to see on her shirt but she made some buttons at the farmer's market
Grant photobombing her
More sunflowers
Going to see the Golden Spike site one afternoon
We didn't spend that long there but it was cool
On the left are railroad ties made my the Central Pacific Railroad (building from Sacramento toward the east) and on the right are railroad ties made by the Union Pacific Railroad (coming from Nebraska toward the west). They made the ties differently from each direction because of different circumstances and availability of materials. Here they meet. It was cool to see.
A branch of our apple tree broke. Wondering if we can try to fix it. Hmmm.
Water balloon fight with Keeler cousins at Grandma's house
Our cute nephew, Adam, with a water balloon!
Keeler and Guptill cousins
Anna with her cousin Magnus - they are about 2 1/2 years apart but always have so much fun hanging out together.
Anna with baby Axel, my sister's almost 1 year old
On the day before school started Matthew and I went over to the junior high and walked around to all of Matthew's classes. He found everywhere he needs to go so should be good to go for school!
The week of all the birthdays I was preparing to teach my first ever Young Women's lesson - I was recently asked to be a teacher for the 12 and 13 year old girls in our ward. There are 12 of them and 4 total leaders for that group. I got to teach first and was pretty nervous about it. This is a print I put in a frame for my lesson. It went fine and I'm glad I get a break for a while and that I got the first one out of the way.
Summer didn't go exactly as I thought it would. I had planned lots of activities that we never got around to doing mostly because I was feeling too stressed all the time. On the last day we tried to get some of them done. We did bleach tie dye shirts. One fluorescent pink shirt we got for Emma would not bleach no matter how much bleach spray we used on it. That's some sturdy dye I guess.
And real tie dye shirts.
Every ones tie dye shirts turned out really cool
The color shirts we sprayed with bleach
They looked kind of weird
The pink one wouldn't discolor at all
Everyone's tie dye shirts - on the top row, left to right, Matthew and Anna's shirts
Bottom row, Grant and John
Here's Emma wearing her shirt
They all looked really cute!
Getting Daddy hugs the night before school starts
Whether we're ready or not, summer is over and here comes a new school year!
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