This one time....

This one time I was dreading summer. Dreading all the neighborhood kids being home. Dreading the problems that often occur when kids just run wild in the neighborhood, in and out of each others houses, someone being left out, someone not being nice, someone not wanting to play with my kid but will play with all the other kids, having to talk to other moms when fights occur, each of us thinking our kid is an angel and the other's to blame, the heat, not going on any vacations because we are broke, blah, blah, blah. All in all, I hate summer.

But then this other time, I looked at the calendar. I mean, I look at my Google Calendar everyday because it's my homepage, but this time I REALLY looked at the calendar, and realized that summer is over in a week and a half and I can't believe it went by so fast! This is great news! I survived it and you know, it really wasn't bad at all.

 We spent several days and evenings at grandma's pool.

We had an impromptu Whitney family reunion. We were all medicated so everybody had a good time. Next time I want to plan ahead a little and do real family reunion stuff like...go to Lagoon, go camping, go to Minnesota and rent a party boat on a lake, etc. That would be fun!!

Matt and I got to go to a Toby Keith concert. We should have drank the beer and got plastered like Toby and the rest of the crowd. I guess we were too Mormon that night.

We took the boys to the Ward Campout solely because it was the only camping trip we could afford this year. It was free and so was the food. Except it was B.Y.O.M. (Bring your own marshmallows) so we did spend a lil bit o' money.

I mostly just played Words with Friends on Matt's phone the whole time. In this picture Matt may have said something mildly suggestive and I was looking at him smiling and thinking "Did you really just say that?" and he's looking at me with a sunflower seed in his mouth thinking, "Yeah, I said it. Whatcha gonna do about it." This really happened. What I can't confirm is whether or not this is a picture of that moment.

Kooy learned to rock climb...for real. Not on the rock walls they have at the 4th of July party.



We decided to sell our Tahoe. The tranny went out on our Saturn so we needed to sell the Tahoe to pay for that repair, then we would just buy another car next year with our tax return.

We went to the Days of '47 Parade. We go every year though, so no news flash here.

Peyton decided he didn't need floaties anymore and took to doing front flips into the pool. He's gotten pretty good at swimming with out them. I don't sign my kids up for swim lessons...I just throw my kids in the pool and let them figure it out. So far it's working.

We went to Lagoon on our Stake Lagoon day. It was just the

right amount of fun. Kooy loved finally being tall enough to ride the big rides. Wicked is his fave. Matt and I talked and decided that we got a little Lagooned out last year with our Season Passes. We thought about going again today with our Bounceback passes, but decided that one trip to Lagoon is enough for this year.

Then decided not to sell our Tahoe. We LOVE our Tahoe. We had no real bites on it and since we figured out that the value of our Saturn was only $500 more than the cost to repair it, we decided to keep the Tahoe and just give the tranny repairman the title to the Saturn. We don't know if it's the best decision in a perfect world, but our world isn't perfect and we don't have too many other options at this point in our life. We'll buy Matt a little car next year. We are lucky to be able to have my FIL's pickup truck to use while we are only a one car family.

And now I'm thinking of making this my new profile pic on Facebook but I can't decide. I like my eyes but my nose looks really big. Is it a little creepy or a little artsy? I can't decide. I'll probably just stick with me in the sunglasses for now.

So, all in all, summer was pretty good. And all the neighborhood probs I was expecting just didn't happen.  Kooy starts school on the 20th and I got a call for an interview for an aide position at some elementary school I've never heard of. So here we go. I love the fall.


Post Edit: Ok, So I'm gonna use it on facebook. Sorry if it creeps you. 

Post Post Edit: Nevermind. I put it up and when really tiny I just look mad so I took it off again.