Busy Summer!

For some reason I thought that living in a small town would be a slower paced life but I'll tell you what, we have managed to stay pretty busy this summer. Sabree has been on the Fillmore swimming team. She has really developed into a great swimmer. She has competed in several swimming meets and has improved her times by at least 1 second per swimming meet. It's pretty awesome to see her progress in such a short amount of time. Sabree has won a total of 17 - 1st place ribbons. Since she is the youngest on the team and some of the opposing teams don't have kids as young as her, she automatically gets first place. She swims against the 8 year olds and sometimes wins them too. We're really proud of her.

Oliver has also been swimming. We're on our 3rd session! He's on a roll so I didn't want to stop him. He's really enjoying it! The teachers love him and think that he's so cute! He never comes out of the water without the biggest, cheesiest grin on his face. You can't help but laugh. He's such a happy boy! We're proud of him too.

Jaylee has no problem watching at the swimming pool. She does not like the water for some reason. When we go swimming as a family she'll sit at the side of the pool and watch us or throw us balls but she doesn't want to swim. Hopefully she'll get over that soon!

We had a very fun and busy 4th of July. We started out with the parade in Provo. Afterward, Luke watched the kids for a little bit while I went shopping with my sisters and Mom. Then we went to Nelsons Park in Orem. It has a catch and release fishing pond that also has ducks. The kids didn't catch anything but they still had a great time. Jaylee would feed a duck then herself, then the duck, then herself. Pretty funny! After the park we had dinner with all of my family, which doesn't happen very often, followed by fireworks. The fireworks were a lot of fun. They are always a little too loud for the kids, especially the little ones like Jaylee. She was having a hard time with the fireworks until my dad brought out his noise canceling ear phones. Jaylee was very content and loved the fireworks after that! It sure made for cute pictures too!

Oliver on the slide at Nelson's Park

Sabree with Grandpa Oliver

Jaylee's fishin'. Oliver and cousins in the back.

Sabree fishing!

Pretty Sabree with sparklers

Huge headphones

Jaylee's first sparkler experience!

That's all we need...Jaylee with TNT! She's a fireball by herself!

Oliver with earplugs...cute!