Summer 09 update

Now that the weather has cleared up, we can finally do some fun summer activities!!! Here's our last couple of weeks in review:

I had last Friday off of work (the 19th, see how long it takes me to update this blog?!) thanks to my boss's anniversary, so after school I took the kids to Liberty Park with Aunt Arn to run in the fountain & playground. Later that evening Chris had a work soccer game that went into major overtime but it was a lot of fun to watch. Then afterwards we took off to see Kung Fu Panda for movie in the park night. There are a few different parks that participate in this & if the nights are nice, I hope to go to quite a few of these.

Saturday was our FREE Dominos pizza party thanks to houseparty.com. That day was rainy but we stayed in.

For Fathers Day Sunday we had a fun dinner at Margie's. It was nice so a few of us ate outside & played in the backyard.

Monday started free kids lunches at the park for us. Its been going on since the beginning of June but I misunderstood where these free lunches were being passed out at, so once I got the correct info, we started going to the right park for lunch for the kids. Its a government program where they just pass out free lunches to any children under the age of 18. Pretty cool. Only catch is that the meals must be eaten on site, which is a good excuse to get outside & go play anyway! This is an ongoing thing until the beginning weeks of August.

Last Tuesday Aunt Arn took both of the kids to Oma & Opa's where they got to play with cousin Connor & go swimming! Wednesday I had the day off as well so I took the kids swimming at Kearns pool. Aunt Arn met us over there and we had a lot of fun! I got a sweet little sunburn on my back, which didn't feel very good while Chris & I were in the theater later that day for our free special screening of Away We Go. Noah stayed the night at Oma's with cousin Teagan, who was visiting from St. George. Away We Go was a great movie, I highly recommend everyone go see it!

Thursday after work, we went to Dr. Boyack's house for a work bbq because he will only be working at our office on Fridays from now on :( we ate charred hamburgers (if only he read this blog, he would be laughing!) and played volleyball. My wrist is still recovering to this day.

Friday we missed Taylorsville Dayz fireworks thanks to the rain, grr!

Saturday was the busiest day yet! I had my first test of the semester in my Psychology class. I was up until almost 3 studying and I feel really good about it (I haven't gotten the results back yet). As soon as Chris got home from work, we went to Luca's 2nd year bday party. They had a small pool, a slip and slide & waterguns! Both kids had a fun time & didn't want to leave, but we had a movie to catch! We dropped Bostyn off with Oma and took Noah for his special surprise: TRANSFORMERS!!! We stopped at the store on the way and let Noah pick out special treats to take with us. Noah loved the movie, but by the end of it, he was worn out from his busy day. After the movie, we dropped Noah off at Oma's and we took off to Rob's for Casey's surprise birthday party. We had a lot of fun, got to spend time with our friend David and ate hamburgers again for the third time in one week! We left that birthday party to go to our friend Ben's bday party at Classic Fun Center (yes, the 3rd party that day). We jumped on the huge blow-up toys you see at parties & carnivals & played laser tag. The kids were OUT by the time we got home & we CRASHED too!

Sunday was a nice hot day & the day before, Noah told us he wanted to go to the park. We went to the park but it was so hot that we couldn't stay for long. We did get to throw rocks in the almost-flooded Jordan River and the kids thought that was cool. Bostyn has a good arm! We stayed home & relaxed the rest of the day and were able to finally get our air conditioners put in! Woo hoo! Its amazing how hot & humid it can get in our basement condo.

Its looking like a pretty slow/average week, although Noah already got to go swimming today with Aunt Arn & Unci Matti. We promised Noah that we would go buy fireworks tomorrow & then get "chinese panda" (panda express) for dinner, and I'm sure that this weekend will be pretty busy too with the Fourth of July weekend. We do have a bbq to go to on Saturday at Rob & Casey's. I plan on going to see fireworks at least on Saturday, but I haven't decided if we will try to find fireworks again for Friday or do movie in the park.

I will try to post pictures later, I really don't have many but even a few can't hurt!