Summer Begins!

 The kid's last day of school happened while I was in Sao Paulo, so I came back to the full swing of summer fun!

The beginning of summer is always kicked off with peach palooza. We had a record number of peaches this year, probably close to 500. Elliot dedicated himself to documenting and quantifying our harvesting efforts.

This was not an exaggeration, there really were 83 ripe peaches in a day at the peak. Note his use of tape on the card to make a dry erase updatable section. 

Running and daily total cards conveniently attached to our chore and prayer charts

Other members of our family were dedicated more to consuming the peaches rather than documenting them.

We ventured up Madera Canyon with the Bradys

I love pictures of Elliot genuinely laughing

Elliot and Annie did another year of VBS and loved it. 

While the big kids were summer camping, Isaac and I enjoyed cookie decoration day at the clubhouse. I love having this little buddy!

Annie at the park asking me to take a picture of yet another special rock. She's the best.

Both Annie and Elliot did a week of summer camp at the clubhouse as well. They are in different age groups, so they met different weeks and had different field trips- Elliot to a bowling alley and Annie to a science museum. The rest of the days were filled with crafts and activities. It is awesome living in a  community that has so much free stuff available for kids. 

We also had swim lessons at the clubhouse in the evenings after VBS/Be Well camp. The evenings were fun- we didn't need to mess with sunscreen and it was a great way to end the day. We did many evening swims over the summer because we liked it so much at swim lessons. 

Our favorite flowers- the Mexican Bird of Paradise of Peacock flower!