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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Summer 2011


Wow I can't believe the summer has come and gone already! The last three months went by so fast for me it feels like just yesterday summer vacation began. We had a lot of fun the last few months.

In June, as a family we participated in our city's heritage days. Maleina ran a 1 mile race with her cousin Braxton. Tyler ran a 5K with Mark and me. It was exercising as a family and working on improving our time from the previous year. After the runs, we went to the parade and carnival.



With Grandma, we went did our annual trip to the zoo for a Zoorassic adventure. Maleina did not enjoy seeing the dinosaurs as much as Tyler did, but we enjoyed seeing the animals and spending time with grandma before she flew to California to see grandpa. When Mark and the kids went to get their picture taken with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it roared and scared Maleina so bad she started screaming. I wish I was quick enough with my camera to have captured her face, it was priceless!

We took the kids this year up to the stadium for the fireworks in July. Diamond Rio performed and it was fun to see the fireworks that close. My parents' house is only a block away from the stadium but it was still fun to go and see them up there. My brother-in-law, Joe, helps make the fireworks and so many thanks to Joe and his family for putting on an amazing show this year!





The end of July and first week of August I took the kids with me to help my brother move from Nevada to Arizona. Not the best time to be moving....108+ degree weather was shocking considering the temperature was 75 when we left our home. I was glad we were able to go help him and his family. We had a lot of fun lizard hunting each morning when the kids woke up and going to their community swimming pool.