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Saturday, July 29, 2023

Summer Fun

Summer is going by way too fast!
We have been busy with lots of activities


Went to a fun 4th of July party.
Had to bring the masterpiece, and cupcakes


Afterwards we watched the fireworks at the fairgrounds with our friends


Played games until it got dark


It was fun!




The fireworks were amazing, as usual


Maddie at her tennis lesson


Tanner at his tennis lesson


We have been doing lots of swimming.
Kinley taught herself how to swim and swims like a fish now


We were at church one Sunday and the fire alarm went off in the middle of sacrament meeting.
Turns out it was an electrical fire in the WiFi router in the Family History Center. The Bishop sent everyone home early. As we were leaving, we saw no less than 10 fire trucks pulling up to the church.


At the free movie


And free slushies on 7/11 day


Tanner is playing basketball this summer and is doing awesome! 
He scored a basket during his first game.


Took the kids shopping and they had to up and down the escalator


More tennis



More basketball


And Rita's afterwards when Tanner scored another basket


Made a fancy breakfast for Trevor's birthday, but he was on trek


Trevor on trek


Rockin the cowboy hat!


We celebrated when he got home


Got a new badge holder, even though the old one could probably have lasted a little longer


New sunglasses


New running shoes


He also got a pressure washer and some fancy car wash stuff


I made him a cookies and cream ice cream pie.
He wanted an ice cream pie from Baskin Robbins, so I called them to see if I could order one, since I didn't see any on their website. They said sure, I just had to come in to order it. So I drove all the way over there, and after speaking to the manager, and the lady who makes all the cakes/pies, they said they don't actually make ice cream pies there. So I was like, fine, I'll make it myself. So I got to the store to buy an Oreo crust, for the pie, turns out, they were out of those. So I made that myself too! 😆




Went to the Blue Crabs game with some friends.
We had front row seats!


Trying out the new pressure washer.
We couldn't believe our patio was actually white this whole time.



Maddie is doing dance class this summer and loving it


Maddie and Tanner playing against their teacher


Took the kids to Costco after another free movie.
Can't beat $6 for lunch


Took Tanner to Rita's after another basketball game


Finally got a fake rock to cover up our well pump


Trying it out


Cute girls playing dress up.
Kinley loves the Rainbow High dolls


Fast break


More dress up


At church



And that is what we have been up to for the last month.
School is starting in one month! Trying to enjoy the last of summer before it is over.

 

Saturday, July 1, 2023

Beach Trip

We went on a super fun vacation to Gulf Shores, Alabama!
Tyler and Chandra and their family were supposed to meet up with us, but we made plans before they decided to move to Utah. They weren't able to come with us, so we just went by ourselves. We missed them a lot but still had a great time.


Ready to head out


Made it to the hotel in Georgia


Got Chick-Fil-A for lunch


We were right across the street from the Mall of Georgia, so of course we had to do some shopping!
They had a Coach store in the mall and I bought this pink purse.


They had a Cheesecake Factory in the mall too, so we had to stop by there


We let each kid pick one out


We ate them for dessert and part of breakfast the next day


Hotel breakfast


We passed the Big Foot statue on one of our stops along the way


The kids were so good in the car, just played their tablets or slept the whole time


First stop when we got to the beach was Walmart, to get the necessities


We had ice cream cones every day


They were pretty fancy


The beach


The kids loved finding shells


Our AirBnb had a fun pool that we went to three times a day


Eating out at Mexican


There was an excessive Heat Watch the whole week we were there so in the middle of the day, we tried to stay indoors. The kids did a Pokemon puzzle one day.


Turned out great


Watching a show


The AirBnb was really nice


We pretty much lived in our swimsuits all week


The kids loved the beach





At the pool again



On our deck



On our 5 minute walk to the beach


Boogie boarding


Tanner said he wanted to dig a hole at the beach, so we helped him



And we buried him too


More ice cream


At the souvenir shop


We brought our tennis stuff and found the most awesome tennis complex.
We played 3 out of the 5 days that we were there.


It was a little hot


But still fun!


The kids are naturals



Kinley did great!




Maddie and Tanner are taking tennis lessons this summer



And we played a little doubles



Cooling off in the pool


The beach was so nice and was never crowded


Night swimming


We got all the kids Gulf Shores t shirts


The kids found some pretty cool shells


More tennis


Got yummy smoothies and smoothie bowls


Kinley fell asleep on the way to McDonalds.
I think we wore her out!


McDonald's for our last meal


One last time at the beach


It was so beautiful


Digging another fun hole




Family pic


And that was our vacation!
We had such a fun time relaxing and getting a break from our routine.