We just completed our first full week of summer! Here are some of the things we packed in.
Janessa and friends went to yet another Sweet 16 party. I think Janessa has been to about 5 of these in the past month.
We made lots of luau food.
Jansen and Sarah had to say goodbye, as Jansen was going to college for 5 months.
oJansen received the Melchezidek Priesthood on Sunday morning. And then he left for the Rhode Island airport for his journey to college at BYU in Utah.
Happy Father's Day to James. We made him a blueberry pie and a chocolate cream pie with the BEST piecrust I have ever made!
The pool that we'd signed up for swimming lessons had some chemical level problems. So no swimming lessons this week.
We spent Monday at the emergency room at this hospital with Soren who had testicle pain. He's fine. It ended up not being the serious emergency they were afraid it was.
On Wednesday we made our first of many summer trips to the library.
On Wednesday we had our first cooking class--bread and jam
Each of the four boys kneaded and baked their own loaves. (The shapes on the top help us tell them apart.)
Dinner consisted of homemade bread, watermelon, freshly picked corn on the cob and...
freshly made strawberry jam. We made two batches that day.
It was Wednesday when we confirmed something we'd thought for a few days--our fridge and freezer had stopped working and nearly EVERYTHING in it was spoiled or moldy. That was a quick way to clean out the fridge.
On Thursday we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned our house. And we did all of the laundry. And changed all of the beds. And spring cleaned the sunroom. And cleaned some more.
Thursday night the whole family and a bunch of friends went to a Jon Schmidt concert in Cambridge. So much fun!
And fed them grass and carrots.
Then we made these art projects of sheep in a field of grass.
This project came from, "What shall I do today?" For the sheep we cut out pieces of paper for sheep bodies, got them wet, put them on the big paper. Then we painted the big paper with a birthday card wrapped in yarn, dipped in paint. Then we removed the sheep bodies and added faces, eyes, feet, and fingerprint flowers.
Lachlan's picture is easily identifiable as a black monster sheep.
J.B.'s sheep picture.
J.B. attended an afternoon camp at Ridge Hill for 3 hours every afternoon.
We built fruit fly traps for all the fruit flies we've been breeding since the luau.
And our dad, James not be left out of the fun has booked a lot of travel for work. He made two trips to NYC this week, as well as road trips to New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Next week he'll fly to Toronto, then to NYC again, and then to New Hampshire again for 3 days of Trek.
And our Jansen has been away from us for 6 days now and has packed a months worth of activities into those 6 days. Read about him on his newly started college blog:
3 comments:
WOW, that is a seriously busy first week of summer!!
At this rate you will all have collapsed from exhaustion before summer is half over--tho you do have a lot of people to spread out all these activities. Hope you get some time to put up your feet and read some of those library books!
Wow...I am so tired. But jealous. I wish I could have a "summer" again - almost makes me want to go back to schol (almost being the operative word)
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