It was a beautiful albeit hot week in Springville this week! We had some good chances to be outside, too!

For work, I helped with a teen morning camp on mental health Monday thru Thursday. I got to bring Beth and Ben for free! Plus, they upped our numbers. (The small group of 6 or 7 was nice but 4 would have been small!) It was held in a beautiful park by the river. We did group games and skits and even a couple of art projects. For one art project, the teens filled egg shells with paint and wrote things on the eggs that make them angry. Then they got to throw them at pieces of paper. The result was very colorful! I thought we went over some good stuff and Beth and Ben were good sports. I loved spending the time with them in the beautiful outdoors!

The other day we spent a big chunk of time outdoors was Saturday. We wanted to get together with our married kids so we planned a picnic in the park. A major bonus is that Ammon is back from boot camp! We all missed him but not nearly as much as Meg did and we are so happy for them to be reunited and to have him back. So, we ate food and Ammon brought some MREs for us to try (which is what they fed him at boot camp--lucky guy!). Then we played some basketball and played in the creek. Megan brought some waterguns to turn against the boys. We tried to rap with McKay and also played bocce ball. It was a super fun afternoon!

So, in the afternoons this week, Ben worked on tearing out the tile floor in our kitchen. He worked hard every afternoon of the week. He had two friends who came periodically and helped, too. On Friday, Kevin joined the group and finished getting the last of the mortar off the subfloor, install the underlayment, and get the new planks in. By Saturday at noon, they were finished! What rockstars and what a lot of work!!

Bethany's days also were not over after teen camp in the mornings. She had her driving range hours scheduled for the evenings Monday thru Thursday 6 to 9! She reports that it wasn't too bad and actually kind of fun as long as you had someone in your car that was fun to talk with! So, only one day was kind of hard and I think her driving confidence improved a lot! Friday night she went to karate and Saturday night she went to her friend's house for a movie so she's had a full week!

Rainbow over the driving range.

Deer on the way home.