July 22, 2018

We had the privilege of watching the Claridge boys for the weekend. They were entirely too fun! It reminds me of how great little kids are and the amount of energy required to keep up with little kiddos! Sweet little Stan never stayed still for a photo, he is a mover and shaker.

 I helped the Tucson Stake with their repelling activity. It was a lot of fun, Sherrie Whetten called her other friend Sherry to come and help with this. She travels with her dog and is cool enough that she even has a harness for her dog! My niece Madison was at the camp too!

This summer can be categorized with the phrase "camp" Bella, Olivia and I went to girls camp, Homan to scout camp and Parkin did an overnighter with Benjamin. So naturally, we needed more. We went camping with the Whetten crew. We went to the White mountains and camped near a creek, beautiful flowers inspired flower wreaths,

Arizona has it all!

Olivia moved to be zen in the forest.

The kiddos finished swim team season. I did not take a single swim photo since I worked the snack bar for the team. Sadly I did not witness too many races. I do know that all the kids finished in the top 8 and made it to championships in at least one stroke. Bella sadly got a concussion in early June which made her miss the majority of the season. She could not drive, practice or work for a bit. She did the bare minimum to qualify for championships, she managed to eek out  2 3rd place finishes and one 1st. Despite this concussion, she also managed to do fantastic on her ACT with a concussion! Sometimes life does not go as planned.

Speaking of life not going as planned our truck died trying to go up the mountain with scouts, this has made the ending of summer quite ridiculous. The driving schedule has been madness, getting two teenage daughters to work at three different pools, getting Anna to eye therapy and not to mention my own schedule too. Where is the car fairy when you need him? Yes that fairy is a boy. We all have roles to play.