We had Art City Days this week! That meant that on Wednesday night we went to the carnival on opening night when every ride is just one ticket. Everyone came this year except Savannah who had to work late. We let each of the kids pick five rides! Beth and Ben's lines went the fastest and they got the least amount of headaches from their rides, but everybody had a great time!
The giant yellow slide you see in the background of this last picture was actually Beth and Ben's favorite ride. Ben said that next time he would use all five of his tickets on the slide because it was so fun!
Thursday night Funfinity hosted a Teen Game Night as part of Art City Days where they provided all their demo games and employee know-how to have several game tournaments with prizes! So, Savannah and Sarah both went to help and Sarah invited lots of her friends, including, Tate, a friend she met at EFY. Sarah and her friends ended the night by heading over to Sonic. They all had a great time!
Friday morning Savannah woke up the younglings to show them the hot air balloons as they floated over our neighborhood.
Friday morning was the Craft Fair at the art museum. I took Cali, Chey, Beth, and Ben and we made harmonicas, hats, pictures, necklaces, and sunglasses and got balloon swords! They had tons of fun!
After that, I took them and Megan to the Spanish Fork pool for the first time this summer. Ah, sparkling water, happy kids, and a large water slide! Ben took me down the slide twenty times. Beth preceded us each time!
Saturday morning was the parade! Yay! We all got to go to the parade this year together and even watched with Grandma and Grandpa! Ben's favorite thing was the marching bands and Bethany's was the princesses.
The week finished off with our back-yard, front-seat fireworks show! Ben sat on my lap and narrated throughout the entire show. It went something like this, "Oh no! Our ship! It's going to explode! *crashing sound effects as the firework explodes.*" It was a whole new way for me to experience fireworks.
In other news, Sarah worked 29 hours this week. Wow! She also did scorekeeping for Springville rec on Tuesday and practiced tennis every morning. On Tuesday morning, Sarah and Megan went with the aforementioned Tate and one of his friends to do baptisms at the newly opened Payson temple. As the wait time was FIVE HOURS, they decided to go to Provo instead. She also spoke in church on Sunday! We didn't see Sarah much this week, but are impressed with how many good things she can fit into her life!
Megan and Mariah did cross country practice every morning this week. On Monday mornings, their team will be providing transportation to do trail runs! This past Monday they ran to the hot springs that we hiked to as a family a few months ago. They said it was much quicker of an undertaking when you run it--and when there's not multiple icy hills, heh, heh. Anyway, I thought that was tons of fun.
In addition, Mariah had a basketball camp Monday thru Thursday. She attended in the morning with the older group and then stayed to help with the younger groups. She had a busy week, too! Then on Friday and Saturday she participated in a basketball tournament with the high school teams--three games on Friday and four games on Saturday. That is a lot of basketball.
Cali and Cheyenne participated in the younger groups of Mariah's basketball camp so they had tons of fun doing that every afternoon Monday thru Thursday. They also played softball Tuesday night and Thursday night. Kevin said that Tuesday was their best game ever with both the girls getting hits and scoring runs. They even won!
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| C and C's basketball camp |
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