Sunday night our jet-lagged kids wanted to go to bed at 6 pm. Brandan kept them up until 8 by playing Monopoly with them. By then they had the late night sillies, they were so tired.
We returned this book to the library this week. We've had it for over 6 months. It's the most comprehensive guide to Great Britain we've seen. The kids are glad to see it go back to the library. Becky took it on our trip in her suitcase. All of our suitcases look the same, so if they picked the wrong one, they got a heavy surprise.
Our stake is preparing for a youth pioneer trek later this month. Abe's trek family met for a hike Monday morning. Thanks to jet lag, all of our kids were awake by 7 am, so we all went on the hike. It was great to start the week being active.
Sofi and Abe hiked with a group of older kids.
We went swimming in the river after the hike. Some teenagers gave Gib a ride in a raft. This stretch of river was pretty calm and all the kids enjoyed paddling around.
Here's Helen playing with a water gun.
On Wednesday, it was 108 degrees--ridiculously hot. Older friends had tickets to a marching band show, but they felt it would be unhealthy for them to sit outside in the heat so they gave us their tickets. Abe and Sofi had mutual that night. The rest of us enjoyed the show. The sun was behind us and we sat in the shade. We watched bands from Washington, Oregon, California and Colorado perform.
Abe and Gib made sails out of tinfoil and drinking straws. They used fans to propel the sails across the family room.
We went to the 4th of July parade on Saturday. Helen and Gib sat up front and got lots of candy. Gib also got these funny sunglasses.
They got their faces painted at the park after the parade. Gib got a tiger face and Helen got a butterfly.
We went rafting with friends Saturday afternoon. In the front boat are Joey, Helen, Sofi, Logan, Andrea and Blake. In the back boat are Eddy, Gibson, Camden and Abe. Also in the boat, but not in the photo, are Brandan and Becky.
It was another hot day and the cold river water felt great. The water level is low, so we saw more rapids than usual, which is still pretty tame but just right for our family.
The little kids liked swapping back and forth between boats. This is a photo of Abe and Camden swimming to the other raft.
We got home from rafting in time for dinner before fireworks. Our neighbor, Matt, almost canceled his show-- understandably. It's very expensive, takes a lot of work to put together and makes a big mess to clean up. The neighborhood rallied for him to continue and showed their support by donating lots of money. We enjoyed 30 minutes of nonstop fireworks. Matt's entire show looks like most shows' grand finales.
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