A Few Last Summer Adventures

Jack had his first soccer game today. When I went to upload the pictures from the game, I found a whole bunch I had forgotten about.

At the first of this month, the kids and I went to Flowell with Taryn and her kids. We stayed for a few days. As usual the kids had a ball. Nothing better than swimming in the old horse trough:

A favorite activity at Grandma & Grandpa's: sitting outside eating popsicles (you should have seen Aiden when this was over - he was covered in chocolate - too bad I didn't get a picture!):
Aiden and Lainey sat down for a little light reading:
Last week our stake had a swim party at the aquatic center. The kids were so excited to go since they have had a dud of a mom all summer and haven't been able to go.
Aiden wasn't too happy with going in the deep water (okay he pretty much freaked out); he was satisfied to just play at the end of the pool. I can't figure the child out. He loves splashing around in the bathtub and in his little pool, but try putting him in more than a foot of water and he freaks.

I love this picture of Jeff and Aiden:
Monday we went to Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake. There was a good deal on Groupon a while back, and we had never been, so we decided to check it out.

Aiden was not down with sticking his head through that hole. His face cracks me up:


Jack and Aiden were dying to try to touch this bird. The bird was having a good old time running back and forth teasing them.
The kids had a lot of fun seeing all the different birds and going to one of the bird shows.

Like I mentioned earlier, Jack started soccer today. He almost missed out on it because his absent-minded mother didn't realize it started so early this year. I went to register him online on Monday, but registration was closed. I finally got a hold of the lady in charge and she signed him up just in time for the game today. He was so excited yesterday and kept asking when it would be night time so he could go to bed and wake up for his game the next day. Obviously it's very rare that he actually looks forward to going to bed! ;)

He did great running up and down the field in the heat. It was quite a big transition from last year where the field was half the size. His team won 3-0 (Jack would update me on the score after every quarter).
School starts next week, and we couldn't be happier around here! ;) We've had a good summer, but it will be nice to be back on some sort of schedule and hang up my referee whistle for a while. ;)