My brother-in-law's dad and step mom live near by and have a pool. They invited us over, along with my sister's family to swim and play one afternoon. They let us stay at their house during the eclipse a few years back and are very kind to us. Everyone had fun swimming.
They also have a pretty serious zip line at their house. It's high and long and involves being harnessed in. Here is my brother-in-law, Dana, helping Matthew get ready.
There he goes!!
Woohoo!!
Here is Scott going down the zip line.
Matthew, Scott, Grant and myself chose to ride the zip line.
Anna, Emma and John opted out. It is pretty high and scary, so I get it.
Weee!!
Anna with our nephew, Magnus, firmly on the ground.
We had a lot of fun at their house.
Blackberry picking one hot afternoon.
John and Emma doing a craft one morning. I got some different dollar store crafts and they have been working on one most mornings.
Grant built this Lego scorpion. This is not from a set, it's his own design using pieces he already had. I love all his cool creations.
John went to an eco-science camp. I mostly signed him up for this because it said they got to care for some chickens and hamsters during the camp and John likes animals. Unfortunately he was sick and missed the first day, which was chicken day. So he didn't get to see the chickens. He did make this solar oven.
He also made a hydroponic growing system of some kind. His little plant died soon after bringing it home so we might have dome something wrong.
Anna got to go to girl's camp this year and had a great time. She has made a few friends in the ward and stake and they had a lot of fun camping for a week.
Anna had a sewing project she had been working on and needed some help. Grandma Guptill came up to help her with it one afternoon.
Anna was so happy about her nightgown.
Matthew went on a 50+ mile 5 day long backpacking trip from Timberline Lodge to Cascade Locks with a group of boys and leaders from church. He has never done anything like this before. They left on Tuesday and Friday evening Scott drove up and met them at a lake campground and stayed the night. He ended up bringing Matthew home early. He had been having a lot of foot pain so he skipped the last day. Matthew has really low arches and the trail runner shoes he was wearing weren't providing the right support. Once he got home and recovered we went to the running shoe store for an evaluation and some inserts. That helped me know more about what kind of shoe will serve his feet best. Hopefully his feet won't hurt on long hikes in the future. He made it about 45 miles - way to go Matthew. Here he is before his hike.
And after. His feet were pretty swollen for several days. Lots of swelling around the arch.
The older two kids were gone on their adventures on the same week so the three younger kids and I did some fun things of our own. Here we are at the swimming hole one afternoon.
It was lots of fun. I even got in and swam a little with them. More summer adventures to come.
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