We are so glad we live in such a lovely place. This summer we went to our friends' pool, Michelle took Dancenastics, Kaelah took ballet, Danny was in gymnastics and continued taking karate. With those classes came free passes to open gym, which we enjoyed going to the with B family.
We bought an annual pass to the local children's museum since we were finding ourselves being near there for appointments often. And once we were blessed to have some of our favorite people join us.
We visited Michelle's future preschool. This was the first preschool K had attended and it was lovely to be back. Stacie had moved away so Danny never got a chance to attend, but M couldn't be happier to be around the rabbit, chickens, sheep, and raspberry plants. I like to say if she can go visit a place like that frequently, I won't have to turn my own home into a zoo.
The Rhythm on the River was great entertainment and free of charge. Our oldest 3 got to go rock climbing for the first time -- that was our favorite part -- but also lots of booths to learn how to brush teeth, make a kite, or make something out of wood. A highlight was riding the shuttle bus to get out of the rain.
Us girls were there for the demolition of the mall. I am grateful we went because M almost cries every time we go past the construction. She doesn't understand why you would tear down a perfectly good building just to make a new one. Luckily we have a chunk of it in our garden as a keepsake, thanks to Sarah, one of the city counsel members. Sarah even drove the bricks in her car over to where our car was parked in the non-VIP parking.
We loved attending the W family's farewell party at the R's house.
And Kaelah proved once again that she is a tremendous artist, this time after coming home from a neighbor's birthday party that was held at an art studio.
AFW has shopping all figured out. While Mom goes around looking and making decisions, just set the children in front of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. The children begged to go back.
The County Fair was a huge hit, as usual, made even better by meeting neighbors there.
Dan & I attended our first red carpet premiere, thanks to my former Apple co-worker. Two of the awesome people I worked with practically made the short film by themselves... but of course, I exaggerate. It was fun to go out and do something super out of the ordinary for date night.
The SFS Back to Pool party was super fun and all 4 of the children are signed up for swimming lessons this fall!
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This July Danny earned his advanced white belt in karate. Funny story here: I saw on the karate calendar there was a summer olympics one week but assumed it was something extra. So when M & D and I went to the summer picnic & it was announced they were passing out medals, I told my children not to worry about it & finish eating. Along came a teacher that said they needed Danny to come over. Ok. Turns out this kid earned LOTS of medals as part of his class instruction. Basically, anything that required strength, he got a medal in.
Danny's medals from the karate summer Olympics
3rd place Black belt kicks
1st place Push ups
1st place Heel palm shot put
1st place High jump kick
Way to go, big boy!
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