Last Week of Summer

The Cooper Junior High Cheerleaders helped out with registration and walking the schedule for 7th and 8th grade. Eliza is the cutest cheerleader! We went to the Heard Museum one final time before starting school.  Of course, we also had to go swimming.  The older kids aren't interested in the Heard Museum or swimming anymore though.  Sadness.  Kaori and I also took Eliza and Maggie to this place in Rockwall to learn how to apply makeup. 

 

Cheer Camp

Eliza went to cheer camp this last week. It was held at Burnett Junior High for three days. She seemed to enjoy it well enough.

Eliza made at least one decent friend on her squad, Ashley English.  Ashley is only in 7th grade though, so they won't have any classes together.
 

High Adventure

The boys got to have somewhat of a high adventure.  They didn't get anything last summer due to COVID.  The trip this summer was changed many times due to COVID policies and rain in Oklahoma.  They ended up going to a waterfall up in Oklahoma and then spending a day ziplining at the Heard Museum.  Not exactly the camping they were hoping for, but they got to do something.

There are several boys in the ward that Travis hangs out with a lot: Cooper, Spencer, and Ajak are a few.

Westley hung out with Hyrum and Hunter a lot.

Caleb spent a lot of time with Corey, since he got to chaperone.

July Fun

On Jonah's day to cook, he made a fabulous fancy dessert by using fresh berries, whipped cream and chocolate syrup.  And we went swimming again with Maggie and Paige's kids at Aaron and Kaori's pool.  Also, somebody heart-attacked us.  It was the Rigbys, but they don't know that we saw them.

 

Swimming at Home

Before we left on our trip, our pool had not opened for the summer because of Covid19. One of the reasons we went on our trip was to spend a lot of time in Arizona swimming at Grandma and Grandpa's pool.  But the HOA board had met and opened it up the very week we left for Arizona.  That's okay, we still  had a great time in Arizona.  Since we've been back, we've been trying to go to the pool every day.  We just really love to swim.  And we have only one child left to still learn how to do it on  his own.  Won't that be nice when they are all swimming independently?

 

Fun in Utah, Part III

We drove down to Mt. Pleasant while we were in Utah.  We stopped in at the Fairview Cemetery to see my grandparents' graves and then we stopped at the old homestead to see the house.  We also stopped in on Clell and Debi unannounced (I don't have any contact info for them) and they let us visit with them.  Their older daughters, Sarah and Gabby, were both there with their husbands and babies, so that was fun to meet them all.  And Clell gave Westley his old bugle, which Westley was thrilled with.

We celebrated Independence Day in Utah with our Fowles cousins.  John and Peter got a game of Axis & Allies going that Caleb and Travis joined.  Danny played too and Westley played a little as well, although he worked on the 4th.  We had cheesy potato soup instead of a traditional BBQ because Westley requested it since he'd been gone for two months and missed having it.  We watched fireworks from John and Allison's neighborhood up on the hillside looking over the valley.  I thought I had gotten some pictures of it, but apparently I didn't because they were not there.  It was a pretty nice holiday.

Fun in Utah, Part II

We were able to meet up with Andrea and her kids, who were in Utah visiting her parents,  for a hike.  Matthew and the twins were actually staying with John and Allison for a little bit and Peter had been living there like Westley for the summer.  We went to Battle Creek Falls in Pleasant Grove.  It was a comfortable hike and the kids enjoyed it.  I enjoyed getting out in the beautiful Utah mountains. 

We went swimming a few times at John and Allison's community pool. It was interesting that their pool was open during covid19, with fairly no restrictions.  Ours had all these restrictions when it opened, like 50% capacity (although, I've never seen more than about 20% capacity at our pool!).  But I was glad the kids were able to swim with their cousins while we were in Utah.  Travis, Matthew, Katie and Annmarie made a totem pole with Travis being the base.  I guess he does take after Corey a little after all!

Here is a picture of Jonah standing beside Watson to show how big Watson is. 

We enjoyed Japanese food that Allison prepared from scratch, with the help of some of the kids, and Nathan even ate some of the pot stickers and the pork!