Dawson Summer
The Dawson's spent the summer in Colorado this year and it
was sooo much fun to have them here. We
did so much- went to the county fair, went boating, went swimming, went frog
hunting, went shopping and soo soo much more!!
A couple times I got to go to the Rec Center with the
kids. We had so much fun swimming in the
deep end (yes, this is an accomplishment for me because I have just felt
confident swimming this year- thanks to Mat, Jasen and Andrew's expert
lessons); jumping off the diving board in weird ways, playing underwater
telephone, playing basketball and much more.
We spent hours swimming and playing and it was so much fun (and great
exercise).
I took Andrew, Mylie, Emma, Spencer and Wyatt frog hunting
at Golden Ponds. Last time Emma, Spencer
and I went frog hunting we caught a lot and saw a ton but this year we did not
see a single frog. The kids did jump in
the river and get to swim for a bit though.
It was fun watching them (no, I didn't get in because I did not have
extra cloths and didn't want to smell like a river all day) and seeing their
pure youthful joy. It made me happy to
see them out in nature being kids.
Emma is what we might call a 'tween' aka between childhood
and teenhood. She is starting middle
school this year and is starting to care about how she looks but at the same
time... isn't. This tween-hood was causing
Andrea some 'back to school shopping' woes, so Emma and I had a girls date (Aug
8) went shopping. We didn't buy anything
but we went to two stores and tried on cloths/modeled for hours (with a lunch
break at Smash Burger). It was fun to
see Emma get so excited about different things and a little sad to see how big
and grown up she is getting.
Michael Angelo did his Eagle Project while they were in
Colorado on August 10th (I am so proud of him).
He restored an old cemetery in Boulder that had some water damage that
made some of the grave sites sink. It
was a really old cemetery and before we started working a lady from the Park
and Rec came and told us stories about the cemetery and some of the people
buried there. We had four big piles of
dirt to be moved in wheel barrows around the cemetery to fill in the holes and
honestly I thought it looked pretty easy when we first arrived but it ended up
being exhausting and a lot of work. But
in the end it was fulfilling to know we had helped and great to have helped
Michael with his Eagle project.
(Ben tripped over a gravestone while we were working and
hurt his back pretty bad. Everyone was
teasing him that it was a zombie coming from the graves to get him. I am glad
he is okay but.... that is a pretty crazy way to hurt yourself).
We also went back up to Evergreen (Aug 16) and got to go
boating (we tried earlier in the Summer with Michael and Taylor and got rained
out). The Evergreen lake is beautiful
and it was so much fun taking canoes, kyacks and paddle boats across the
lake. Afterwards we walked around the
lake to downtown (so cute and fun) and got icecream. That night we had hotdogs and smores at Mat
and Andi's house. We had super gormet
smores with brownie bites, graham crackers, chocolate
chip cookies, three kinds of oreos, chocolate, reeses, rollos and
marshmallows..... YUM!!
Right before the Dawson's left we had Andrew and Gwyn's
Birthday Party (Aug 17). Andrew is 12
years old and is getting the priesthood.
He is so helpful and grown up that I have felt like he was 12 for a
while but at the same time... he's 12? When did that happen? Speaking of aging
quickly Gwyn is turning 1!! It feels
like life is going in ultra drive...everyone is getting so big! For the party we all went down to Cathy's
house for a pool party. It was fun to
see everyone and play in the pool. This
was also Elizabeth's first time in a pool (we didn't have a swim suit so she is
in a onsey but she does have a swim diaper on).
She didn't hate it but she didn't seem to love it either. If I had to pick one word to describe her
reaction it was just 'meh'- she kept looking at me like I was crazy for
thinking it was SOO COOL.
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