A Simply Savvy Summer So Far I Must Say

This has been a Great Summer So Far and a rather frugal one as well. I am feeling so good about it because I have yet to have heard, "Mom I'm bored, what can we do?" That sentence drives me BoNkErs.

The kids have been doing an art class at the Stake Bowery, they paint with there hands and have learned a lot about all the colors. Then it's on to a picnic and playing in the creek (that is in the shade). They catch little minnows and try and get the water snakes. This is truly what a kids summer should be about. We stay for hours and they love it.

Then there is the 4th of JULY, same routine, Layton Parade and then on to Grandma and Grandpa Thatcher's for a Bar-B-Q, then Fire works that night. We had some fun with the camera!

We got invited by the Wallace's to go boating at Pine View one Saturday, Rich sustained some minor injuries (not shown in picture).

Then my college friends and I decided to do a husbandless camp trip on up to Bear Lake. This was an ingenious idea! We got there before dark set up our camp like real men would and sat down to take out pizza. The neighbors next to us just gawked at us the whole time. They sat with there arms folded across there chests and just stared. I think they were in awe that three women could run a camp chef and cook up some darn good dutch oven. The curiousity got the best of 'em and they came over to see what was cooking. We were the only camp that wasn't in an RV, we where the white trash single mothers, at least that's how it looked. Saturday our husbands did join us and they even got there before dark!

I brought along my Nanny, I mean my Niece, Demi. She was so fun and a ton of help. The little boys loooovvvved Her! Nellie was so good, she didn't try and eat the sand and just loved playing in the water. All the kids got along really well and were dead tired and the end of the day, I can't wait to do it next year.

We've also been on a hike up to Green Pond in the early cool morning. There was no whining and Logan wanted to keep going. We participated in a day at the South Ogden Splash pad (which wasn't as trashy as I had pictured it being). We've hiked up to Waterfall Canyon, we didn't quit make it to the top, someone had to go to the bathroom, we won't mention who! We've been to the Ogden Farmer's Market, the Ogden Horse Parade, the Ogden Children's Tree House and TWO Raptors Baseball Games.

Like I said no one has had the chance to get bored, YET!!!

I have loved every minute of this summer but my poor yard is suffering the consequences. Oh who cares? Not me obviously!