Catching up.....again......with a gigantic run-on post.

School started this last week and it just didn't feel right to post the back to school photo's until I posted the rest of the summer happenings.

This summer seemed to go faster than any other summer before it. I spent the first couple week's of August in total denial that school was fast approaching. Now that I can deny it no longer....I will pay tribute to the summer of 2009.

When Mitchell turned 5 back in January we told him we would get him a "big boy bike" when the weather got warm. The first few days after we got his bike he would go out and ride right after he finished his breakfast. He is also very good about wearing his helmet whenever he rides his bike. We may have been slow getting his a bike, but we had to make sure he got good use out of his styling trike.

In late July..Matt's sister Sherry and her family came for their annual summer visit. We enjoyed family dinners complete with "Rock Band" entertainment .......


An evening at Bridal Veil Falls.... where Sydnee had fun posing for the camera.

and Ben had fun sabotaging his parents photo's......
Ben, Kenzie and Mitchell enjoyed climbing to heights that made their mom uncomfortable...
All around good cousin fun......
We ended our evening in the canyon with a marshmallow roast.

Fun with the Johnson family ended on the 24th of July at a after movie dinner and firework show complete with glow bracelets.

We went on a hike to Donut Falls with my sister, Paula and her husband Dean. It was a beautiful day. Matt was hesitant to agree to this activity worrying that the little kids would want to be carried the whole way up the trail and back. Sydnee and Mitchell proved to be champion hikers, we were so proud of them.

We had a fun summer, the majority of which was spent at home with anywhere from 1-9 neighborhood children coming and going. Farewell to the lazy days of summer 2009.