Last Day of the Golden Summer!

 August 31 is the Best Day Ever!  

#1) It is my birthday!

#2)  It is the last day of a Golden Summer.

We had so much fun this Summer:

We had lots of visitors: 

The Lilyas, The Zoellners, Grandma and Grandpa Stevens, Aunt Linda, Uncle Quentin, and Grandma Johnson.

Fun things we did:   

Playing with cousins, Painted Ambree's closet, Painted Kitchen, shopping, Dairy days parade, Kings of Swing band and dancing, Kung-Fu Panda, planting trees, Settlers park, X-men, Slip n' slide, Craters of the moon, game night, U-Swirl, Fourth of July parade, Fireworks, Watching Fireworks on the helipad at St. Als, Cars 2, Library Days, Kids fun run, Lucky peak, Picnic at Merrill splash park, movie night, play-dates, yard sale, Moved the Schwendimans, swimming in our pool, Temple date, Lunch at Tully park, mowing lawn, Boating party at Black Canyon reservoir, 3 sleep overs, Boise river, splash park, Pioneer Day, Texas roadhouse, 10 birthday parties,  Library carnival, Brennen's baptism, Read Hunger Games, Ivy Wild park, Powells Candy Shop, Barber Valley Park, Soup or Salad, McDevitt park, ExtraMANza, pocket parks, pizza night, Girls night, Fremont Park, Slip n' slide, Running through the sprinkler, Roaring Springs, Harry Potter marathon, Magic, Lucky Peak Lake, arrowrock dam and reservoir, hiked Tablerock, Boise River, Deadly Hallows part 2, two boxes of otter pops, 150 miles of Running, 70 miles of biking, and too much swimming to count!

 Pioneer Day

"The Spinning Park"

 We played Roaring Springs in our backyard---slip n' slid, swimming in our pool, and running through the sprinkler.  The kids had a blast!

 REAL Roaring Springs

Lucky Peak Lake, up by Arrowrock.   Back flip off the dock . . .I still got it!

 Canny Boy riding the hippo

 I love Canon's little fat legs hanging out

 Family hike up Table Rock!

 We made it to the top!

 Great view of Boise.  A man passed by us and told the kids they were Champions.  They were it was 100 degree weather!  We went to the river to cool off.

 Splash Park

 Lazy days of Summer

Canon loves the water!

Klingon Baby!

 Ambree dropped a Little People play set on Canon's face last Saturday.

 Pretty sure it was broken, but there is nothing to do for a broken nose.  So he got Otter pops and ibuprofen instead from his Nurse parents.  This is day three when most of the swelling had gone down.  Sunday he looked terrible--like a baby Klingon.

 At 17 months Canny Boy is finally walking.

He has been such a trooper this week.  Being the third child he seems to get pestered from both directions.  

I love this chubby boy!