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Summer Highlights

School was finally out for Summer!!
Hiking Stewart Falls with Uncle Kevin, Aunt Demri, and Brinli

Taking a snack/drink break on the trail!

Posing in the Lake

Lots of fun fishing trips with Dad!

Visiting Temple Square.

Taking Marli to the State Capital.

Checking out the Great Salt Lake, which we realized isn't so GREAT!!

Kennecott Copper Mine with G.G.

Learning to ride a bike without training wheels.

Nate getting the Aaronic Priesthood on the Susquehanna River.

New York City

Piano Recital and summer piano camp.

Last Clayton performance. Yay!!

Playing with friends at the ballpark.

Ashton playing baseball

Peyton playing baseball!

We had such a fun summer. I had all the kids write down the top 5 things they wanted to do this summer and I think we did them all except a Bee's game which is coming up. Some other fun activities that we didn't document with photos include:

Swimming, swimming and more swimming

Swimming lessons

Raging Waters

Lagoon (twice)

Track and field

Soccer

Golf lessons with friends and cousins

flag football camp

Cheer camp

Lots of sleepovers with cousins

Camping

Boating

Peyton learning to wake board & ride a dirt bike

Yummy BBQ's
Going to the Pancake House with Grandma Janet

Family bike rides

Murray Pool with friends

Sleeping in

Being Lazy

NO HOMEWORK!!

Beach Pictures

Legoland

Disneyland

We had the most wonderful family vacation to California.

Some thoughts and highlights from our trip:

*The kids were so good in the car on the long drive.

*Swimming in St. George.

*Wishing I had a second home in St. George.

*Going to the beach.

*Watching Mitch discover the beach for the first time.

*The hotel was perfect for our family.

*Watching the crazy people at the hotels free breakfast!
*The kids being so excited to finally get to Disneyland.

*Mitch being tall enough to go on most the ride.

*He loved Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Star Tours,

Tower of Terror and Haunted Mansion.

*Ash, Ava, and Peyton loving California Screamin' and always trying to get the front.
*Running on the rides over and over, there were NO lines!

*Mitch trying to talk to Captain Jack on Pirates.

*Peyton, Ash and Ava being fearless!

*Ben and I having just as much fun as the kids.

*Wonderful weather.

*Leaving the snow and cold home!

My memories of this trip go on and on. The best part for me was leaving our stress and busy schedules and spending uninterrupted time with my family. I LOVE going on vacation with my kids, they're so much fun and such little troupers. This was our best family vacation so far.

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A Summer of Fun

Summer Highlights:

* Lots of June rain, which made everything so green and beautiful.

* Swimming lessons with all our neighborhood friends.

* Melting while watching 2 hours of swimming lessons.

* Lots of swimming at Aunt Annie's pool and Park Place with the Beckstroms.

* Hanging out with Grandma Janet every Friday.

* Late night walks and bike rides.

* 4th of July "Stay"cation at the Cannon's with the whole family.

* Yummy BBQs.

* Park City with the Beckstrom Family.

*Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house.

* Lagoon- twice! Once with Aunt Pat, Gigi, Kendall, Grandma Janet, Annie, Lydia and once with our fun little family.

* Peyton, Ash and Ava going on ALL the big rides.

* Steamboat, CO dinner and Alpine Slide.

* Watching Grandma Janet on the Alpine slide and the lift going up!

* Visiting the Johnson Family in Colorado.

* Mitchell getting his hair cut.

* Summer baseball and t-ball.

* Lots of Dance performances.

* Raging Waters with the Witzel Family.

* Playing with friends.

* Summer piano group lessons.

* RELAXING!!