Summer Fun

Schools out!!!  One of the things we absolutely love about our neighborhood is lots of friends for everyone.  This picture was taken at the beginning of the late night movie party with a few friends.  The kids played hard all day and made money selling snow cones, so they took their earnings to buy some sugary snacks for a great party

Matthew and his friend Amy spent the day making a great fort in the  backyard in the bushes.  There was little accident during the production and Mom and Matthew got to spend some time at Riverwoods Urgent Care Center getting some stitches.

The stitches didn’t slow him down much.  He was hitting strong at his baseball game Saturday, just two days later. Our neighbor Dan Palmer was the coach and Dave helped as an assistant.  They had a lot of fun.

 

BYU summer tennis camp…TONS  of fun!   Lindsey lucked out.  Brad Pearce is the BYU tennis coach and Lindsey attended the camp with her cousins David Abbott and Josh Pearce.  Her cousin Tara was an instructor at the camps and Lindsey, Brittney and Matthew took lessons from her throughout the summer.

Girls, Girls, Girls, that’s all I see….

Girl’s camp was one week after we returned from Mexico and it was a whirlwind turn around, but tons of fun.
This year our ward was able to go to Heber Valley Camp, which is a beautiful new camp for Young Women and Youth Conferences.  It was a great week.  Dave, Brittney and Matthew are always very supportive and pitch in doing extra stuff while Ali and Lindsey go away for a week.  Family and neighbors are also greatly appreciated in helping to make it all happen.
Probably one of the best things about camp is that Aunt Lisa is the camp director.  It is fun to go to camp as adult sisters and REALLY super fun for Lindsey to have Lisa and all the fun and amazing stuff she plans.

Lindsey and Ali learned how to knit at camp.  Lindsey had to help Ali a lot since Lindsey was the faster learner.

We had a great week.  Devotionals by the campfire are always great.  We had 3 cabins in our camp because we had 39 girls and 7 leaders. Never a dull moment that’s for sure.

One night we played “Minute to Win It.,” a fast paced popular game show.  The girls loved it.  They basically played random, sort of pointless but fun 60 second games.

The church property is gorgeous.

Cabo 2010

This past June we went to Cabo San Lucas and it was REALLY AWESOME.  Here are the highlights…eating tacos at a great stand across the street from the Cabo Costco, Brad “man-o-war” Pearce and I prove who the real men are by eating peppers at Zippers (great food), Ali’s bee sting from a VICIOUS KILLER MEXICAN BEE (resulting in brief hospitalization, no amputation necessary) at Chileno, boat ride to Lover’s Beach, dinner at The Office (our favorite restaurant), Chuck getting bit by a pelican (seriously, a pelican), deep sea fishing, eating at a taco stand with a mariachi band playing our request for La Cucaracha (we are sooo original!).


Wow, here is another collage because 2 collages are WAY better than one.  Chillin with our new amigos in the car rental office, body surfing at the Sheraton, eating at Zippers, snorkeling just before we were nearly swept into the Sea of Cortez in a violent current, eating at a great taco stand where we had no idea what kind of meat was being served…still tasty though, on the beach at Zippers, in the downtown shopping district with an iguana, in the airplane from SLC to Cabo, our row of beach chairs set up by our loyal manservant (loyal as long as the tips were good), the golf course right outside the house, the whole group in front of a villa, and the beach in front of the Sheraton.



Whew!  I’m kind of exhausted typing about all the cool stuff we did.  Seriously, it was an amazing trip.  We’re glad Chuck and Oranee made it all possible.  It was a great week spending time with Ali’s siblings/spouses in an amazing part of the world.