We have had a busy, fun, wonderful last few weeks of summer!
Our days have been relaxed and low stress. We sleep in the morning, get up and get going - make a plan for the day which involves going to the pool a few times a week. It's been so great!
These pics are from a park day we had with cousins this week. Megan and Jack were in town, so it was fun to see them. It's always a party with the cousins. 

Here are a few pool pics. Lizzie and Isaac have improved their swimming and diving skills, so much this summer! They have spent countless hours at this pool and we have all loved every minute of it. I love taking my kids swimming because we are all happy and entertained, the kids get worn out and come home really tired, and ready to eat a good dinner, plus it's just really, really fun! A few of our friends had passes to the same pool so it was rare if we didn't see friend or neighbors at the pool. It was a perfect way to spend these hot summer days.

Here are a few random pics
Lizzie sleeping with no covers at night
Danny & Lizzie doing some music, they both love this
Isaac had a nerf gun war with his friends
Dad sleeping at sunday dinner
we had Henry over one night, he's so cute! I am his favorite aunt right now!
Taylor still is working hard at the guitar.
He is taking lessons and teaching ukulele to a few students.
Taylor and Sophie helping me shop at Costco.
And a work BBQ for Danny's Real Estate Program at the park this su mmer. 

A few more pool pics.
Also our neighbor just came home from a mission in Tahiti. He had some friends over and they needed some instruments and asked Taylor to come and play songs with them. It as a fun concert and he had a lot of fun playing island songs with them . 

More fun pictures of fun days. I am really going to miss this days during the cold, long, snowy winter! 

Lizzie did the high dive this week. She just decided she wanted to try it, and she did awesome!!! I was really proud of her and also thought she was a little crazy too. She went off a couple of times and then decided she needed a break. She LOVES to swim.

We got to babysit Jack one morning this week while Megan & Colton went to a wedding. Jack is such a cute, snuggly little guy. We all love him so much and we couldn't stop kissing his chubby little cheeks. 

Taylor had his first day of Jr High on Friday. It was just a half day, orientation. They found their classes etc... He was nervous, scared and excited all at the same time! We can not believe he is in Jr high! I think he'll have a great year- he's doing the accelerated program called MELP. I know he'll make new friend and have a good year in 7th grade. 

While he was at school, we started our annual street party/all day extravaganza/ BBQ for dinner etc...
We had a massive bouncy slide that came at 9AM and the kids were lined up jumping and playing on the slide until 9PM. They had a blast!!! We all were outside the whole day, we had snacks, drinks, popsicles, pizza for lunch, ice cream sandwiches and had a wonderful days with friends and neighbors. The kids were in heaven this is one of  their favorite things about the summer.  

We rotate the kids, so they're not all on the slide at one time.
Big Kids
Medium Kids and Little kids. While the kids waited to get on the slide they say in our neighbors hot tub, ate food, got a drink of played games. This worked well, so no little kids were hurt by the bigger kids.
Here is Taylor doing a crazy flip, the big boys are nuts. They made me really nervous with how high they go and how crazy they can be. Luckily no one was seriously hurt.

Lizzie really liked wearing her goggles on the slide, She wasn't scared of the slide. She just wanted to see all the way down, instead of having water in her face. I thought it was cute and funny. 

We are all in complete denial about school starting on Monday! Why does summer go so fast?
This was a fantastic summer, full of wonderful memories and tons of fun!