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| Ben and a group of kids from his Sunday school class took advantage of the summer walk-in baptistry sessions with an early morning trip to the temple. He is not a selfie taker, but took this one of the temple in the early morning sun. |
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| I had the really neat opportunity to be a part of our elementary school's assistant principal hiring team. It was my 4th choice out of the four we sent through to the next round who was ultimately the one who was hired by the second round team, so I was a little disappointed, but hopefully she's a great fit! |
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| Beating the heat wave! |
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| Josh and the Beginner Band Camp crew sounded solid at the end-of-session concert! |
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| The Conlin boys' number one soccer fan...well, maybe in a tie with Dad. |
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| It's so easy to let the days pass without actually planning things to do because the boys are pretty typically entertained by each other and there are enough things that we HAVE to do scattered in there to keep things interesting, but I remembered how many fun little activities I used to do with my older boys during the summer, and decided to make a calendar of fun things to create each day with my guys until we leave for Washington in a couple of weeks. First up: cork boats! They are perfect for floating in the water table, but what we would really love is a good rainstorm so we can float them in the gutters. |
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| It was a dark and stormy afternoon.... |
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| Hot days mean cooling off in the sprinklers on the trampoline! |
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| Kate has been such a good friend to Tommy over the past year. She is his favorite friend! And, sadly, she is moving to Tennessee this summer, which makes our Tommy really blue. We had her for one last playdate before goodbye! |
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| We love Nemo, Dory and Marlin! What a great sequel to our favorite animated movie! |
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| Meet Mary, Carrie, Barry, Larry, Harry and Gerald. These little birds are so awesome! And so are these boys! I thanked the older boys for being game for our little activities, even if they were geared toward the younger crowd, and they said, "No! We think they are fun!" Best boys ever. |
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| The boys invented a new backyard game this summer called "Kick." Part tennis, part volleyball, mostly soccer, they've been entertaining themselves with this game daily. The little boys get in on the fun by being commentator and medic. Haha! |
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| Lulus to treat my loves! |
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| We finally had a storm that gave us rain without hail and lightning that moved through before the rain did, so we could put the cork boats to work! Tommy's boat kicked our booties every time. |
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| Saturn spotted! |
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| While I am a firm believer in the power of boredom to foster creativity, it can also foster a lot of bickering, so we are keeping up the plan to throw a few fun, planned activities into the days to break them up a bit while we countdown to our Washington trip. Painting with feet definitely kept things fun and argument-free--and messy! Of course this mess was made on the one day we didn't have afternoon rain. |
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