Our Summer Summary!

There's really no excuse for not keeping my blog current other than it's summer and frankly, I have better things to do like sit outside sipping lemonade while stimulating my brain on words with friends, or scanning through the endless world of Pinterest.  Of course, I only get to do those things when I am dreaming!  Reality hits and I am usually packing for a campout, or reunion, or doing laundry, or cooking, or helping the boys pack for another campout!  We have been busier than usual this summer due to the boys working and going on the Trek with the stake. Other events include our Bradley family reunion, K&C Birthday's, the 4th of July, a zoo trip, campouts and our family vacation.  Here is a summary of our summer!! Enjoy!

Skyler is an active member of our community.  Three years ago he joined a friend at a Youth City Council meeting, and on June 25th  this year, he was sworn in as YCC Mayor!  I refuse to believe he stays involved with this voulunteer group because of all the cute girls, but something inside me tells me otherwise!

Fourth of July was fun as we took a family walk around Manutua resevoir and made cake pops!  Which, by the way, are my new love/hate relationship!!

On the 5th of July we drove down to Springville to enjoy the company of 50 other Bradley's at our family reunion.  Some of the activities were shot put shooting and swimming and boating at Payson Lakes!  Fun times!!

July 18th-21st was the Stake Trek!  The boys were put into separate families and along with 230 other kids, walked 32 miles in 4 days!  They had a great time and learned to appreciate what our ancestors went through!

 July 24th  is Pioneer Day in Utah, so with the day off work, we went to the Hogle Zoo which we haven't done in years!  Brielle had a blast seeing all the animals, but she also enjoyed spraying everyone with her water bottle.  After walking in 95 degree weather, it was welcome!

On the 28th Kevin and Caleb celebrated their 15th birthday! Mark took them to Boondocks fun center this year .  I made up clues for them to "find" their gifts around the house. For example; "You're old enough now, So it's time you learned.  When you plug it in, Just don't get BURNED!"  This was the clue for their new electric shavers which were hidden in the oven.

Skyler and couple buddies from work joined the city's Triathalon.  He swam the 200 meters!

The second week of August we took our family vacation.  We decided to stay local as we are saving for a more exciting vacation next year.  Our first stop was Lava Hot Springs.  So much fun!  We all had a good time going down fast slides, but Mark and the boys were the brave ones jumping off the 30 feet high dive platforms! Mark and Brielle are watching from the water as they all line up on the highest platform! 

We also went to a water park called Cowabunga Bay.  It was fun but we enjoyed Lava better!

We also rode on the Heber Valley railroad which was kinda boring, but we had never been on it before.  2 hours of riding the train through beautiful scenery is fun for the first hour, but we were hot

and tired and ready for the air conditioned hotel.

Finally, we celebrated my birthday by going to the Park City Factory outlet mall and the new City Creek Center Mall in SLC to go school clothes shopping.  When we got home I had a party with my favorite people and a chocolate creme pie!  Mark and the boys gave me a crockpot cookbook and a cake pop cookbook,(the death of me!!) and a nice new juicer which I'll need to shed the pound brought on by the cake pops!!