Random summer activities

Oh, I love summer! I like dismissing my routines for a time and just playing with the kids, going on vacations, swimming, and eating lots of Popsicles and ice cream. :) We've had lots of fun and random activities going on this past week - On Friday we had the Sis Missionaries over for dinner. I was glad to have them over again, because the last time we were signed up for it Emma had the flu and we tried to call and reschedule with them but we could never get a hold of them - so, in an effort, to keep them from catching the bug in our home, we just ordered in pizza and kept Emma as far away from them as possible. Anyway, I felt bad about not making anything nice for them. Well, these were different missionaries from last time, but I was glad to be able to fix them a nice dinner. :) One of the girls is from New Zealand - that's cool. I had made enchiladas and she was so excited about it! She said that she's just been LOVING the mexican food here, because apparently they don't have anything like that in New Zealand. So funny! On Saturday morning, I went with the Young Women and Young Men in our ward for a boating trip at Lake Pleasant. The Beehives were in charge of this joint activity. I was so thankful to Dana, the other Beehive leader, who really took the reins on this one and thought of everything in the planning - the only thing I did was buy Costco muffins for breakfast. I'm good at that! ;) Anyway, I actually went tubing, which I haven't done since I was in Young Women's. I was pretty bruised up the next day, but it was seriously sooo much fun! On Saturday evening, we celebrated Midsummer's Night Eve with Ben's family. As is tradition, we floated a cake, sang songs, and recited our favorite poems. This holiday is so random but I love it! For dinner, Ben made 3 different grilled pizzas which were all so yummy - he's getting really good at it - maybe we'll open up our own restaurant! :)

Yesterday we went to the Aquatic Center with friends and I was really impressed - it's a fun place! Emma went down the little kiddie slide like 20 times. It was a fun afternoon. That morning we also went to playgroup, which was to see a dollar movie, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. I was able to leave Becca home with Ben, so it was fun to just take Emma and see a movie together - I actually really liked the movie too! Today has been an especially nice day - I got to spend time with some great friends at a really fun restaurant for a girls lunch. This was in honor of quite a few July birthdays coming up (Taya on the 7th, Liora on the 8th, and me on the 11th of July!) and since Heather and Aubree are leaving for forever this next week (for rotations), we went out to celebrate a little early. We ate at Oregano's and it was superb! I highly recommend it for those AZ dwellers. I ate a lot and I'm still full at 7pm, but tomorrow I'm going to want to go back for more!


As a side note, Emma continues to love going to summer preschool - this has just been the best thing for her! She gets so excited to go everyday - this morning I told her that her ride was going to be here soon so to watch out the window for them to come, well, I went to check on her and see if her ride had arrived yet and this is what I found...


She is so funny - apparently she was really anxious to leave!