Don't get the paper wet!

At swim team on Monday Ethan's group played a bunch of games aimed at getting them to swim faster and smarter.  It was really fun to watch.  Ethan is a great swimmer and has a lot of confidence.

Here are photos of the last game.  They had to hold a piece of paper in their hand and swim, one armed, to the other side of the pool while keeping the paper dry.  Ethan was really fast at it but at the end he forgot which hand he was supposed to keep dry.  But his time was the fastest of his team so they called it a wash.  The losers had to do push ups so he was really happy he had been fast!

Cute Hair!

I didn't have early morning meetings on Sunday so Courtney let me do her hair.  She found a style on a website she liked and we did it.  It was really cute and she received a lot of complements which meant that...I got to do her hair again the next day!!  It is so fun having a girl who will let me do her hair.

This was the finished product the second day.  Courtney calls it her "princess hair."

Sparklers

We had a BBQ with my parents and then went home to light some sparklers.  We aren't huge fireworks people (in fact all the noise of our neighbors was driving us nuts) but we did have fun doing sparklers.  I think I bought these at the dollar store a few years ago and Courtney found them the other day when we were cleaning.

Veyo Pool

Our family LOVES the Veyo Pool.  It is so fun to go up there and swim.  We needed something to do in the afternoon on the 4th so we called around and invited all the kids friends to go with us.  Most people already had plans or were out of town, but Courtney had a friend who was able to go up with us.  Ethan had a lot of fun pestering the girls and making them squeal.  It was so much fun and we found a table that was in the shade with an awning over it.  The girls had some money that was burning a hole in their pocket so they bought a drink, chicken strips and fries to share.  We ordered onion rings and had a great time just sitting in the shade and relaxing.  It was a great 4th activity!

Cute Ethan!

We didn't take anything up to fish for crawdads but plenty of other people were prepared.  The little kiddie pool was filled with all sizes of crawdads.  The kids had time to watch them while Bryan pulled the car around.  It was pretty crowded at the pool when we first got there but a family cleared out and there was a lot more room after that!  I think they must have been having a family reunion or something.

This is a sign that I love at the pool.  I want to make one and put it in my house!

4th of July Bike Ride

We have a tradition of biking to the Sand Dunes in Snow Canyon on the morning of the 4th of July.  This year it was really hot when we woke up so we revised the plan.  Bryan, Ethan and Courtney biked to Unity Park while I drove with the food. Usually we attach the bike trailer on my bike and I pull it while Bryan rides with Courtney on the tag along.  But...Ethan didn't want to ride his nice bike to the park and so he was riding mine and didn't want to pull the trailer so we figured it was a lot easier to just have me drive.  I secretly thought that Courtney wouldn't want to ride home anyway so I drove to give her a ride home.  But I didn't put the bike rack on the van so she ended up biking home anyway.

When they got to the park it was pretty empty.  We ate breakfast: overnight cinnamon rolls, orange juice (the real stuff), strawberries, blueberries and water.  It was yummy.

When we finished eating we got the sports stuff out of the van and played soccer and Frisbee golf.  It was so much fun.  Good start to the holiday!

Blob

Courtney and I made a blob. It's plastic that has been ironed and then filled with water. It is really cheap an easy to make. I bought painters plastic at Walmart them ironed the edges, leaving a small hole the size of a hose nozzle. Then we filled it, duct taped the hole closed and Courtney got on it. It's like a water bed.

We tried to move ours and it got some holes. Next time we will put it where we want it before we fill it.

151515

While driving home from errands today I noticed that out odometer was close to turning to 151515. So I drove through a subdivision so I could stop and take a picture.