I lOve SuMmEr!!!!!

I love summer.  I love everything about it.  I ESPECIALLY love it now that we have AC :)  I don't think I appreciated it to the same extent last year because I felt so crummy.  I have loved being with Bryan and my kids so much.  I am dreading the start of school to be honest, but we'll enjoy this while it lasts.  Sure, with the summer comes a little extra electricity between siblings, but it's so so so worth it.  I sometimes wonder if I am enjoying my kids' childhoods more than they are :)  I've said it many times, and it seems trite, but being a mother is the most wonderful, painful, rewarding, thankless, blissfull, ridiculously difficult thing I have ever done, and I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to mother the 5 little warriors Heavenly Father entrusted Bryan and I with.   I keep a journal for each child...I write in it a couple times a year or so, and I was reading them the other night.   I feel so so so blessed for what I have.  I truly don't deserve it all.

I digress...I realized I haven't documented much of what we've done this summer, so as to settle any future arguments with my children about how full our summers really were :), here is a basic rundown...

Bryan's family reunion

Hogle Zoo! (thank you zoo friend :))

cub scout camp

planting and taking care of our garden

ward campout by pineview

high school reunion

Camp Monson

Outdoor movies on our house

4th of July!

Eaglewood fireworks

Backyard campout

Zerin's overnighter at Cody & Cindy's

Cindy's 10th 2nd birthday party

Arches hike

Bountiful Handcart Days

the most awesome little fireworks display I've ever seen

Hiking at Timpanogos

Owlz game

Hogle Zoo with Bryan :)

The Beehive House and Pioneer Memorial Garden (where Brigham Young and Eliza R. Snow are buried)

Visits with Great Grandma Hugie (oh how I love that woman)

6 hikes so far with the kids and daddy

bike rides with daddy

Farmer's Markets

Lemonade stands

Lots and LOTS of park visits thanks to daddy

frosties at Wendy's

School shopping with Liah

Boys movie night

Playing with friends

Playing with Skelton cousins

School lunch

picnics

Playing with Danielson cousins

Playing with Jonathan

Sleepovers in the loft

Scrapbooking with Liah

and more to come in the next last two weeks :)