Monday was the big day we used our "Reading is the Ticket" tickets from the elementary school for a day at the local amusement park, Silverwood. Mom and Jane looked like this:
after realizing that because of Jane's limited height and Mom's limitLESS girth, we wouldn't be riding any major roller coasters.
The rest of the crowd felt really bad for us:
There is also a water park attached to Silverwood, and on a 95 degree day, we were happy to jump in.
On Tuesday, we had our Third Annual Raspberry Picking Party. Seth, while POOR at picking, was exceptionally hilarious: "Wazberry? You want to come out? You want to come out? Good! You came out!" and "Hey here's another jackpart (jackpot), Mom!" Gabe won the children's award by picking 1.75 lbs, Emma was second, with 1.5 lbs. Jane came in third with .75 lbs and Seth was disqualified for only picking green raspberries, or ones with stem and leaves still attached. We've been LOVING our raspberry muffins, raspberry jam and raspberry pie (thanks Jeni!) all week.
On Wednesday, Mom took the kids on three separate First-Day-of-School-Outfit shopping excursions. (I let them pick out one outfit for the first day of school and then shop for the rest of the stuff in October, when it's cheaper.) They NEVER pick the outfit I like best, so here are the ones I wish they'd picked--obligatory first day of school photos can show you the ones they chose.
On Friday, we did haircuts. The girls got very short ones and they like them, but Mom's kind of happy that hair grows!
We rounded out the weekend with a date (birthday present shopping--we have two coming up this week), pre-reunion house cleaning and the baptism/bbq of cute Maya Albrecht.
We're looking forward to our last hurrah before school starts on September 4th. We'll celebrate Gabe and Seth's birthday, have a lake baptism, a Grandpa Sherrill visit and a Romney reunion. You know you can't wait to hear next week's summary. Try to contain your excitement!
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