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 The boys did a couple of sessions of golf lessons.  They became fans.  This is their first day, by the second day they were all wearing "golf shirts".

 The second day of golf lessons McKay decided that he needed to be on the action.  He brought his clubs and sat and practiced while the boys had their lesson.

 The boys had the best swim teacher.  He was a paraplegic and the boys thought he was so amazing.  He taught them so much!

 In fact, they learned so much from their awesome swim coach, that they all made a swim team for teh summer.  It was a bit early for summer mornings (7:00 am), but the boys became such good swimmers!

 The boys played in A LOT of soccer tournaments this summer.  Not all went well, in fact one of them there wasn't enough players, so they ended up playing all U-11 teams (they are U-9).  They played their hardest (at 12:00 pm in the blazing sun with no subs...), but um, it didn't go so well.

 Josh sprained his ankle badly and the poor guy was out of commission for a while.

 McKay loves to fish.  I made this little fish set with magnets on their mouths and he takes the pole with another magnet and picks them up.  Keeps him happy (and busy) for hours.

 Silly selfies at a Bees game.

 Cache Valley Tournament.  It was so much colder than we expected and we didn't bring any blankets...the boys improvised.

 In one of the games Palmer scored a point on a penalty kick to win the game.

They ended up taking first place in the tournament.  It was a good summer for soccer tournaments.

Heritage Days

 The Heritage Days Parade is awesome, the boys mostly like it because just about everyone throws candy, and they get A TON.  I like it because I eat their candy for the rest of the week.

 To be honest, there is so much candy they stop running for it.  They get a lot pickier and leave the stuff they don't like as much.  Yep, there is that much.

 We don't get too many floats, but a tractor in a parade is always a good time.

 I think this was our one float.

 But it is always good to see our congressman.

 This year we got a funnel cake and shared it.  Since none of us had ever had one, we weren't sure what to expect.  We loved it.

 We let the boys each do 3 rides since the rides are ridiculously expensive.  Palmer and Hunter chose this huge slide.

 McKay chose this fun car ride.

 And of course our climber Lincoln bee lined it for the climbing wall.

 He's been climbing his whole life, it's nice there is a climbing wall with a harness...

 The boys were so excited for McKay that he went down this big slide.  

 Hunter was a dare devil and went on this crazy ride. Nobody else wanted to ride it with him 

 Palmer had to have an adult to ride this one with him  I took one for the team as neither Josh nor I like rides that just go around and around.  

We had a great Heritage Days this year!!

First Triathalon

 The boys did their first triathlon in Toole.  It was a bit of a drive, but in was a nice relaxed atmosphere and the boys weren't too intimidated by those who had done it before.  

 This summer was the first that they had learned a real freestyle stroke, so they were excited to test it out. 

 They did it according to age, so Palmer started, then Lincoln and Hunter went. 

 They were in the same lane and they are about the same speed of swimming although, Hunter prefers the backstroke.  

 Ready for biking!

 Somehow I missed a picture of Lincoln on his bike, but he was now on to the run.

They all finished and were SO PROUD of themselves.  I can't even tell you how many times they said they loved it.  It was such a good experience.

Heritage Days Children's Parade

 I am the director for a local scholarship pageant.  Shortly after our pageant our city had Heritage Days.  There is a chidren's parade that McKay lucked out and got to lead with our city queen.

He always calls our royalty "the princesses."  It is so cute.

 Here are some of our royalty.  They are seriously such cute girls, I have loved working with them.  We had a face painting booth.

 The boys had so much fun going to all of the booths and playing the games.

We sure love our city!