The Last Two Weeks of Summer

Olivia took this selfie with Nato-potato at 7 Peaks.

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.jsAfter our crazy busy birthday/baptism/wedding/party/birthday week, we took a bit of a low key week – played with friends, went to the pool . . . actually, we went to Seven Peaks one day, which was very brave of me (five kids and one mamma at a swim park all day, ai ai ai!), did a few portrait sessions for various friends and neighbors, and just staying home. We just relaxed.//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js

Olivia’s best buddy, Kennedy, who lives up the street, is moving at the end of the summer. She and Olivia have been playing as much as they can! (Snow cones from the tiki shack).

On Saturday we were at the cabin and went to visit our friends, the Andereggs, who were spending the entire week at their cabin just across the canyon. And it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I could do that too! So the following Monday I did a few necessary chores, and then we packed up and went to the cabin with plans to spend the week. It was sooooooo much fun! Wyatt had YW camp for our ward (priesthood leader/bishopric representative) so he didn’t make it up until Wednesday. But we had a great time

hiking to the lake a few times

Our first evening up there we hiked to the lake right after a thunderstorm passed by. It made for a golden summery evening.

Rainbow at the lake after a summer storm.

painting
reading (I finished Go Set A Watchman, and I LOVED it, I’m dying for someone to talk to about it!)
building a stream and dam with the pump water outside
trying to catch baby bunnies (there’s a bunny nest under our shed)
going on a drive-about to see what there is to see in the Kamas Valley