Summer break weeks 1-2

We kicked off summer break with Memorial day. The Allens invited us to join them up Mt. Lemmon so we went to enjoy the fresh pine air and some time with friends. It was lovely. The kids played Koob, volleyball, spikeball, the name game, and mafia while the adults mostly just sat around talking. 

I thought we would get into a summer routine, but every week has been different so we never really had time to get into one. The Milby family was moving and my kids love bossing little kids around (and playing with them) especially cute kids like Lucas and Ellie, so we had them over to our house a couple of times when the house was up for sale and when they were packing. Lucas and Ellie had all the attention poured out on them. 

We were invited to come swim at the Milby's pool, too, so we took advantage before they moved. The water was a little cold, but kids don't care. Or if they do, they stay in the hot tub. :)

For Mother's Day we took Grandma to the Gaslight Theater. Rachel had a YCL party she wanted to go to more than the Gaslight, so Grandpa came with us, too.

The show was Robin Hood, and they had these special touches added in the hall outside the bathrooms. 😂

The next night Rachel was invited to a mystery dinner at Maryanne's house. She was a jockey trainer so she stole grandma's jacket to complete her look. She had a good time, and (luckily) she was NOT the murderer. 😉

Annie decided in April or May that she wanted to host a summer camp as a way to make some money and hang out with little kids. I posted her flier on our ward facebook page and a couple other places on Facebook and she got 12 people signed up, though 3 of them were just for one day. She planned it all out and it turned out great, thought she learned a few things she'll do different if she does this again in the future.

Day 1: Duct tape wallets

Day 2: cookie art (an orange soda drink, kids in innertubes in a lake, and a free style cookie) and marshmallow buildings

Day 3: Picture frames and water day (on the only cloudy day of the week).

Thursday I ended up going up to Mica Mountain's YW camp because the stake YW presidency divvied up the wards so each ward could have one of us stop by for a day. I ended up with the one on Mt Graham that has the road I hate so much. Thankfully Jacob mentioned on Wednesday night that he felt uncomfortable about us both being out of town on Friday (him for work, me for camp), so I changed my plans and went on Thursday and thus ended up missing all the traffic that would have been driving up the mountain on Friday evening, making the drive down even scarier than it was on Thursday with only 2 cars going up while I was coming down on that terrifying road with the steep drops. The camp itself was great and the girls were fun. When I got there the girls were doing toe paintings. It was so funny!

While I was gone on Thursday Annie got her braces off! To celebrate we had corn on the cob on Friday night.

Friday and Saturday I was at home missing the AZ PTA convention. Missing as in not there, not missing as in longing to be there. At the convention our crew was recognized as the local unit of the year! A pretty exciting recognition. It felt good to be recognized for all the work our team contributed to make it a successful year.