Ending

I have been such a slacker at my blog lately but it has been on my mind for far too long. So I will finally post what we have been up to. So the end of Summer is here and we spent it having some great family time before school started up again.
We went To the Taylorsville Pool. The kids love it there! Jaycob loves the water slide and he even jumped off the diving board. Not just the little 3 foot of the water diving board but also the big 10 foot high one. He did awesome! He was scared but he loved it and wanted to go again and again. Logan tried the water slide again this time, he had fun but it scares him to go under the water at the end so he only did it a couple of times. Bella, just loves to be out swimming and playing in the little kids side. It was fun for us all.

The next day, we all got up early and drove down to Thanksgiving Point to watch the start of the Tour of Utah cycling race. Erek is super big into cycling these days and really wanted to see one of the legs of the race. He would love to compete in a cycling race, hopefully next year he will sign up for one. We got there really early when there wasn't much spectators there but just the sponsors and the race teams. It was really cool to see some of the riders and we just kind of hung around until the race started. Bella danced and the boys had us all playing tag.
It was pretty cool being at the race, it is actually a really be deal, bigger then I had imagined. There was over 135 riders in the race and most all were sponsored by some team. There were some famous riders in it like Levi Leipheimer (he road in the Tour de France on Lance Armstrong's team). So Erek was excited to see him, and Levi actually ended up winning the Tour of Utah. Once that was over, we went to breakfast at Village Inn.

Levi Leipheimer

Later, that week I met up with my 2 best friends Denice and Britney and their kids at the Living Planet Aquarium. It was really fun to see them again and let the kids hang out. The boys love playing with TJ and Gage. This was our first time at the new Aquarium sight, Denice and Brit were a little let down thinking it was small but I think it was way better then when it was at the Gateway. Much bigger and much more to see. The kids loved seeing the Sting Ray and touching it as is swam by. It was also fun to see the penguins, they are so cute as the swim by. Watching them feed the penguins was cool but way too many people squished into such a small space that after a minute or too I was done. But it was a really fun afternoon and I can't wait for them to build the new Aquarium, now that will be really fun to go see.




Finally, for the last Saturday night before school started we had our own drive in movie. We have been wanting to do this all summer long but never did, since we did it this night we have done it again and plan on doing it again a couple time before the it is too cold out. We got an old sheet and hung it from the deck, we dragged out all our pillows and blankets, bean bag, and foam pads to make the ground nice and soft. My dad had a projector TV that we hooked up to the computer and Erek also hooked up his old stereo speakers. We popped some popcorn and got lots of treats and drinks. It was awesome. The kids picked Return to Witch Mountain to watch. It was such a blast to have our own little drive in movie.




We had a wonderful summer this year, we had so many fun adventures that we will never forget. So sad it is ending and we have to go back to the busy lives of school. But then again we can always look forward to next summer, right?