Start of summer break!

Summer vacation is off to a great start! Jack had his last day of school on Tuesday and we took his class to the splash park for field day. They had a great time!

 

After school we went with some friends to celebrate with ice cream!

 That evening we went with some more friends to celebrate as adults. Beer and chocolate pairing:

The next day was Jack's official first day of summer break and we started the morning off with their track class:

We walked to our neighborhood farm and visited their dog and got some vegetables. 

 Then we scootered to the park.

 And played at the park

 Then we celebrated with a first day of summer cookie.

Here is Jack's summer bucket list:

I want to get a bunk bed. I want to do
body boarding. I want to go to the
ice cream shop. I want to visit Grammie.
I want to celebrate God. I want to have
a party at our house. I want to make
slurpies. 

Fishing Derby

It was great weather at the annual Loveland Fishing Derby. If you remember my post from last year, we had some major frustrations with the derby as we stayed all day and didn't catch anything. This year we had much better luck. 

We invited some other families to join us so the kids all had a blast together

Lily had an accident with her fishing pole. When she tried to cast it herself, she ended up hooking herself in the back of the neck. I had to pull the hook out of her neck. There was lots of tears and screaming. It took a long time to convince her to try again, this is the face I got when she finally picked up her pole

But then she caught a little fish and was happy again

We caught tons of little fish which helped to keep the kids interested

Jack and a mouthful of grapes

Can you tell they are siblings?

Lily playing with the girls

By mid afternoon the kids were getting restless

But then we started catching big fish

Jack and I walked over to have the fish cleaned and cooked

Fish cleaning station

Fish cooking station

Luke eating his fish

Jack's face after trying his fish

While Jack and I were dealing with the fish, Luke was catching more big ones. When we got back he had caught two more big fish

Then Jack helped him reel in another

This last fish was 14.5 inches and was the 2nd place winner for biggest fish





With that fish we reached our limit of 4 total fish so we just spent the rest of the day hanging out with friends

It was a great day!

Summer birthdays

When I was in elementary school I was always upset that I had a summer birthday. I never got the chance to celebrate my birthday in class. Jack has a summer birthday so every year we make a point to celebrate it in his class before the year ends. This year we did a big party for all the kids with summer birthdays and it was a huge hit.