July happenings

Summer is seriously the best and is seriously going by way too fast!  This past week Connor had his crossover ceremony in scouts, even though he's been in scouts for a year, he isn't technically considered a boy scout until he turns 12.  It was the same ceremony they did when he left cub scouts and got his arrow of light, but it was really nice and the scout leader read a list of attributes Connor has that make him a good scout.  Just a few things she said is that he is kind, loyal, a good friend, hard worker, and good example.  Since I've been in the cub scouts for over a year now Matthew knows all about the scouting program and had to help with the flag ceremony, it was so cute.  

 

These past 2 weeks the kids have been doing swim lessons...  Connor and Kadee were in Shark, the highest level of swim lessons they offer.  They both passed this level last year but wanted to do it again.  This is actually Connor's 3rd time passing this level so I told him this was his last year of swim lessons.  I told Kadee she can do it one more year, and of course Matthew and Kinlee have lots of years ahead of them.  All the kids did so well this year.  I was so impressed with Matthew.  He listened to his teacher and worked really hard and passed his level.  What a difference a year makes.  Last year he was a mess and I really didn't think he would be interested in lessons at all this year, but he certainly proved me wrong.  The Miller family had lessons the same time as us, so it was fun to see them everyday.  Kinlee and Kaydree got to be in the same class so they were very happy about that.  

On Friday and Saturday we had the Clark Family Reunion up 9 mile canyon.  As always we had lots of fun and made lots of memories.  Friday night we had dinner with individual families and were able to visit with everyone.  Saturday morning we had breakfast, played minute to win it games, made family flags, played life size jenga, and a really fun dice game called Liar's dice.  We did a lot of visiting, a lot of eating, drank a lot of homemade root beer and did a lot of laughing.  So grateful for my wonderful family and all my blessings.  My favorite part was cuddling Ashlee's baby Aubree and visiting with grandma and grandpa.  The cloth they are holding in the picture below is the family flag we made, complete with Curtis written by Derrick in Japanese.  Love these people of mine.