A Post About Summer

We had a lot of fun this summer despite this weird COVID pandemic. Here’s all the neighborhood kids sitting all social distanced in the Riley backyard. 

 Tori Valenzuela had a birthday and invited all the kids over to jump on the bounce house. 

 Chris Clark had a Disney themed backyard bday, so I made Mickey macaroons. 

 D and I took both kayaks down the river with the kids. 

Then, we had a picnic dinner afterwards.

 The boys took swim lessons with Aubrey again because they didn’t make the swim team with Liv (although that was comical to watch them try out). 

 Liv had swim meets that we attended. She swims slow as molasses, but had fun.

 We threw multiple back yard hose parties. 

 The kids put on a play of Zootopia and invited all the neighborhood kids to come watch complete with tickets. 

For Camden's costume, he literally glued leaves to his face.

 Jon took the boys and I mountain biking multiple times. It was tradition to jump in the river for a cool off. 

 One time Liv came too. Mountain biking is not her strong suit. We made Chinese dumplings from scratch one day. 

 The kids all had fun helping me make them, and then we invited the Whitmers over to join us to eat them (they brought hot and sour soup). 

 We had to borrow Blake’s old car that is actually Grandpa’s while our car was in the shop getting a new transmission and as a thank you the kids washed the car for Grandpa. 

 We went only to the Scera pool once to swim for fun this summer then I decided perhaps masses of people at public pools was a crowd to avoid during a pandemic.  This is the post swim pizza party.

 I entertained the kids indoors with melty beads, plaster stepping stones, and melted crayon over candle art. 

 The boys found a slug climbing up a window one day and can still be found on top of each other most of the time.