Last Days of Summer

While growing up in Washington, the first day of school always followed Labor Day. Therefore, Labor Day weekend was always the "last hoorah" of summer. It still is strange for me to see how early school starts in Utah, but I guess my days of breaking out the fall scarves and buying freshly sharpened pencils shortly into September are behind me. Since Claire is not in school yet, Labor Day weekend was our "last hoorah" and was filled with fun, end of summer activities.

First, we ventured out to a new place - Manila Creek Pond located in Pleasant Grove. I read about the "beach" online and thought it looked like fun. Well, you can guess that the "beach" part of it wasn't too great, but we all had fun with the surroundings we were in anyway. Claire and I built "sandcastles" with our make-shift sand equipment. They included two Tupperware bowls and two large plastic spoons, which were all from our kitchen. Maybe next year I will finally buy some sand equipment, but for now, Claire didn't know the difference and had a blast anyway.

 
While Claire and I were playing in the rocky sand, Erik entertained Khloe nearby with her ball. I'm always glad when Khloe can join in on the fun even if it is a handful lugging her around with us. She always enjoys being outside and getting whatever exercise we give her.

 

After our time at the beach, we headed over to Novell Discovery Park, which was only a couple of miles away. It was supposed to be amazing and I guess it kind of was. There were tons of atypical things to play with at the park and lots of neat tunnels to run though. Claire had already had a long afternoon playing in the sun so she wasn't the happiest. Getting her fingers hurt by the bells multiple times didn't make things any better. After about 30 minutes, we decided it'd be best to head home for nap time.

 

 
Later that evening, we went to Erik's sister's house for s'mores in their backyard. This is something I always enjoy doing and the fact that we didn't have to take everything up a mountain to a fire pit was even better. Claire obviously didn't take to the roasting part, but we did catch her taking a bite out of almost every single marshmallow in the bag and then putting it back. Too funny!

I can't believe summer is actually over. In one sense, the heat has seemed to last way too long and I am ready for it to cool down, but summer activities are so much fun and we all love the long days and nights. I hope you all had as fun of a summer as we have. Now I can finally say "yay for Fall!".