Waterslides



Hailee and Ashlee



Today my mom took our family and my brothers' family to The Island Waterpark in Fresno. 

Ashlee, Mikayla & Hailee



John & Mikayla



Mikayla looking to see who's coming down next.

Dylan & Mikayla

Mikayla

Adam

Dylan

Hailee, Ashlee, Landon and John waiting for the bucket of water to dump on them.

Hailee, Ashlee, Mikayla
Landon & Dylan

The bucket of water dumping on Hailee, Dylan, Ashlee, John and Landon while Adam and Mikayla watch.

A fun day was had by all.  Luckily we got there when the park opened and were able to ride everything at least once.  As the day went on the park got very crowded, the breeze picked up and you felt a little chilly being wet.  Landon was about 2 inches too short to ride the waterslides.  He really wanted to ride them with everyone else, but couldn't.  My mom spent the day with him in the kiddie area.  My mom didn't realize the bucket dumped water and was standing right under it first thing in the morning and got dumped on.  Not once, but twice.  She had plans of keeping her hair dry all day!  So much for that plan.  On the way home we stopped and had pizza for dinner.  Needless to say, when we got home we were all ready to crash.  Funny how something so fun wears you out!

Six Flags-Discovery Kingdom

During the school year the girls have the opportunity to read for a total of 6 hours and receive a ticket to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.  With summer vacation coming to an end in less than 2 weeks, the kids and I went with our friends the Stiles and Starkweathers to Six Flags for the day.

Alyssa, Ashlee, Sarah, Taylor, Jillian, Ashlee S.,
Heather, Riley, Brooke, Kaitlyn, Allison, Mikayla

Allison, Mikayla, Brooke, Kaitlyn



Ashlee, Riley, Alyssa at the Dolphin Show.



Shuka the whale:

Heather, Riley, Allison, Mikayla

Mikayla

Heather

Allison & Mikayla

 A few more pictures at the end of the day.  Time to go home after a fun, hot day!


Heather, Sarah, Ashlee, Mikayla, Allison
Kaitlyn, Brooke, Alyssa, Riley, Taylor, Ashlee S., Jillian



Waiting in line for the tram to take us to the parking lot.  Most of the girls won Smurf posters during the day (that's what they are holding).

Fair

Mikayla showed a rabbit as a primary 4H member at the fair today.  She did very well for her first time. She got 77 out of 100 points.  The stuff she got marked down on, she did;  but the judge was too busy writing on the score sheet and wasn't paying attention.

After the rabbit show we took the rabbit home and went home for a few hours. In the afternoon we went back to the fair to look at the exhibits, see the rest of the fair and meet up with some of the girl's friends from school.

Ashlee and Mikayla by the Clydsdale Horses.

He's getting the Clysdale horse ready for the parade.  These horses are HUGE!



John "duck hunting" at the wetlands exhibit.



Ashlee and Mikayla petting a turtle at the Rainforest exhibit.

Making a bracelet at the Lowes exhibit.

 Some of the projects the kids entered in the fair.  They did very well.

Ashlee's lanyard.  First place.

Ashlee's hidden name picture.  Second place.  Do you see her name?

Ashlee's digital art picture. Best of Show.

Maddison, Allison and Mikayla

Ashlee S, Emma and Ashlee A.



Hailee's under the see flower pot.  Those are octupuses on the stems. First place.



Landon's flower pot.  First place.

Dylan's model car.  First place.

Mikayla, Allison and Madison at the Lowes exhibit getting ready to make popsicle stick picture frames.

Ashlee A., Emma, and Ashlee S making picture frames.

Ashlee entered in 7 photographs that she did.  She got 6 first places and 1 second place.  Great job for her first year in photography.  Here's a few of her pictures.

 A guy that we work with saw us at the fair and gave us some free tickets for the rides so the girls and their friends got to ride 1 ride.

Maddison, Ashlee, Mikayla and Allison

Mikayla's cookie cutter wind chime.  First place.

The girls made cakes as well, but they were gone by the time we got to the fair.  The fair has two sessions for baked goods and when the second session starts, they throw out the first session items.  We didn't get to see them on display, but others who saw them said they got first place.