Summer Adventures

We did have some fun this summer, but I don't have a lot of pictures to show for it since I kinda broke our camera. It still takes pictures, but it's now more like a film camera since I can't preview the picture anymore thanks to my clutziness that led to dropping the camera for the hundredth time (dropping it 99 times is okay, 100? Not good.) and breaking the LCD screen. Since the LCD screen on our camera is also the viewfinder, taking pictures isn't particularly easy, therefore causing me to just not bother taking pictures. Hopefully I'll be able to get a new camera soon (Nate: hint, hint!). Anyway, here are the few pictures I did take and a brief description of what we did:

(Click on picture to see it bigger!)

To start off, Jackson and Mason got some haircuts-
Befores:


After:


We took a trip to California to visit family, and during one of our pit stops the kids enjoyed watching a train pass by:


While in California we went to the California Science Center (a free museum!) and the kids enjoyed looking at some planes, among other things (and I dropped and broke our camera), while Jenson hung out in his carseat:


We also celebrated some birthdays, while in California:
First Mason's


Then Mason's and Jackson's together later in the week:


We also went to the Los Angeles Zoo (but sadly, did not find any of the wax animal dispensing machines :( ):


We swung by Travel Town in Griffith Park for a train ride:

We also went to the Griffith Park Observatory, but I guess I didn't take any pictures there.

We had some fun at a park in Ventura (and since I can't see what I'm taking a picture of, I can't always do a good job of centering the subjects):


On our way home from California, we got a flat tire:


In pretty much the middle of nowhere:


It was an adventure that caused us a six-hour delay in reaching our destination of St. George for the night. Which led to us taking another trip back to St. George a couple weeks later, in which we did some sightseeing and hiking, and swimming:

Yeah, just the one pic.

We also had a fun free day at this place called Libery Land:


We celebrated birthdays some more-
Jackson's actual birthday:


And Jefferson's:


The Primary had a bike parade:


Jenson tried some baby food for the first time:


Mason took some self-portraits:


And Jefferson started playing soccer this year:


I also managed to get a picture of the boys in which they are all looking at the camera, just not all smiling:

And here's one of just Jefferson and Jenson:


The End
(that's not all we did, but pretty much all I have pictures of...)

Misc. Summer Fun

Here's a catch-up post covering some of the things we did this past summer.

We saw a firetruck and ambulance at the State Emergency Preparedness Fair:



We also got to see a firetruck at a local firehouse when we went to their "Reading with a Fireman" day and got a demo from a fireman:



We saw a demonstration of some Native American dancing outside a local museum:



We watched some fireworks on two different occasions in July (the 4th and 24th-aka Pioneer Day), and did some running around:



And we even played on some riding lawnmowers at Lowe's:



That's just a small snippet of some of the things we did this past summer. I'll post more about a couple of our other activities later. So even though I've been too tired and lazy to update the blog lately, we weren't completely lazy this summer.

Summer Rewind...

I am going to be working on posting about some of the things that we did/happened this summer over the next few days. They probably won't be in chronological order- FYI.

Oh, and I've updated the minivan post to include pictures.