Highlights from Summer 2013

It seems that summer has just flown by and that there are a lot of things that we still want to do before we have to get back to the school schedule.  It's going to be a busy week.  We start back on Monday, August 26.  

We have had a great summer it started off really busy with Jonpa leaving on a 50 mile back packing trip with the scouts from our ward.  Then Jongr and I had Day Camp and we also had our dear friends come visit from Arizona.  

 Here is Jontu at the beach with his good friend who lives in AZ now.  We went to the beach multiple times this summer and are planning to do it again this weekend.  It is definitely been a favorite thing this summer.

 We had a lot of fun playing in the backyard on Water Wednesday with various assortment of activities and friends this year.

 We celebrated Jonpa's birthday with some delicious key lime cupcakes and pizza of course.

 We had lots of fun going "Skylander Hunting" with dad. Jontu enjoyed getting this fun new shirt in the mail from Aunt Jessica and Uncle Richard's business Eye Power Kids Wear that they started this summer.  He plans to wear it the first day of school.

We spent some time at the neighborhood pool, although now that summer is coming to and end it doesn't feel like we went often enough.  We truly enjoyed our time in the water this year and it is fun to see the kids improving in their swimming skills as the summer went on.  

 Uncle Ben came for a work trip and got to stay at CASA JONES hotel, so that we could enjoy some time with him he gave up his Saturday at home to go geocaching in the hot humid Houston weather with us.  We were blessed to be able to see some more of our Houston friends who have moved back to CA this past week too, thank you Ollers!

 We made some really fun bow and arrows and have had a blast playing with them in the backyard and losing arrows in the trees and over the fences. It has been so much fun.

We have spent a lot of time at the parks riding our bikes and enjoying nature, even in the heat. Sometimes with our friends and sometimes alone.  Every time we are leaving the park Jonev will tell me "mom, I'm really melty".  I love that boy!   This picture was taken yesterday at an Eagle Scout project we helped with.  It was such a beautiful morning and location.