Here's the last few weeks/month of summer.
We sure had a fun one. Lots of trips, fun in the sun, together time.
I'm always so sad when it's over. Good thing we have lots of memories!
the boys had chances to earn toys by doing good deeds or chores.
chase earned this HUGE airplane and had a lot of fun putting it together
and flying it. as you can tell from some of these pictures, i had trouble
keeping shirts on the boys this summer. they decided it was "cool" to not
wear shirts. it was pretty hot....waay too many 105 degree days.
chase decided he wanted to make a headdress. i was pretty impressed that
we made this one afternoon just with stuff we had. he loved it!
grant chose a mineral dig. we've had a few of these, but they still love to get them.
you get to dig out crystals and rocks and then identify them.
i was impressed with how creative the boys were together. lots of days they'd come up
with their own things to do and make. for a week they made these creatures and played with them...
their room looked like this a lot - some fort, or cave, or something....
chase convinced grant to have "concerts" a lot - grant was in charge of playing the
piano and chase would sing. they would make a stage and everything and then i'd have
to pay to watch the show. grant thought it was hilarious, and chase was serious.
chase often would decorate the playroom for us....the goal always being it was
to be as scary as possible with what we had around. (as you can see, you probably
don't want to plop down on the couch without moving the wooden sword...)
another concert, this time with a stage and "microphone"
one sunday after church i thought the boys looked cute...not the best picture but oh well....
grant went to scout camp for 3 days - and loved it! here's me telling him to smile before
i have to go drop him off. i did get to volunteer one day and it was pretty fun seeing him
have fun and shoot guns and play with his friends.
he was SO happy the last day because he hit the bullseye!!!
another of chase's toys was this skeleton with organs inside. this was pretty
fun and scientific. the organs are even squishy.
we hit up jumpalooza a couple of times...
and of course the pool. we had fun trying new pools this summer.
we would go to the pool 3-4 times a week. the boys loved swimming, it was good
to get out and get exercise, and it was just a great activity for us.
a magic show! i forgot about this. a few times the boys would put on a magic show
and sell treats and charge admission. i TOTALLY remember doing things like this
as a kid and it was fun to see them do similar things.
all in all, we had a blast this summer. yay for summer!
