Sunday Croquet

We love sports, we love competition.  Even in the civilized game of croquet, we are super competitive.  

Sasha was having a great time.

We love games!

Building Flower Boxes

We have done a lot of DIY projects this summer.  The boys and Josh were nice enough to build me flower boxes to put on our porch.  It was such a nice night while they were building them, that we brought our dinner outside.

I love that Josh is teaching the boys how do build things.  He has worked hard to teach himself and hopefully the retain some of it...

 

I LOVE these boxes (and the people who built them...)!

Palmer Youth Leadership Forsyth

Palmer applied for a program called Youth Leadership Forsyth.  It is where high school students learn from civic leaders once a month during school for the day.  He had to write an essay on something he felt needed attention in our community and he wrote it on bike lanes.  It was a really good essay.  It was super competitive to get into with them taking less than 1/3 of those whom applied.  We are super proud of Palmer!

Roasting Hot Dogs

We have never roasted hot dogs as a family.  We have done it a few times at Grandma and Grandpa Palmer's house.  We thought we would put it on our summer bucket list this year.  

Hunter had his friends Liam and Lance over for the night, so they joined in the fun.

We also roasted S'mores, but I didn't get pictures (I was busy roasting and eating the s'mores).

Nelson Regatta

At the beginning of the summer we had the boys watch a YouTube video on how to whittle.  We decided to have them each whittle a boat for a boat race as an incentive for them to spend time whittling. 

There were definitely different levels of interest and the two that spent the most on their boats were Hunter and McKay.

McKay actually made 3 boats.  They were all pretty fancy.

Lincoln is our monkey-boy.

Ready to race (Hunter took his sail off because it kept tipping over).

Here we go!

Winner of the first race!

Palmer is subtly trying to push the water to help his boat along...

We had to find different ways to begin the race since it was getting a little out of control competitive.  

Seriously competitive.

Palmer want Hunter both won 4 out of the 10 races, so they did a tie breaker.  Shaking hands before it began.

Lincoln was super into it...

Hunter ended up winning and since McKay made the trophy he got to present it to Hunter.  

The winner of the first ever Nelson Regatta!