Summer Camps

Rock Springs has amazing sports camps for kids during the summer.  It only costs $30 per kid for the whole summer and each week they attend a different sport camp for 3 hours a day 4 days of the week.  AND bonus, they send them home with a sack lunch.  (The sack lunches are amazing too, not a boring sandwich.)

 This week it was Baseball.

 It's hard to see them. But Evie is in the blue hoodie and Stew is in front of her. 

 We also have a Arts and Craft camp and Cooking Camp once a week too that goes the whole summer.

So some days they barely have time to come home and have a break before we're off to another activity.

The only bummer, is Ryan is to little to participate.  You have to be at least 5.  So we get to hang out in the Civic Center Gym while we wait for kids to finish.  But I think he still has a good time. And Yes, his hair is really shaggy.  He has a hair cut in the next picture.  :)

We try to make it up to him later by hitting different parks in the area.  We affectionately call this park the Dinosaur park.

So he still is a happy camper.

On Saturday we took a little trip to Farson, WY which is about 40 minutes north and is tiny.  I think they have maybe 300 people that live there.  But they are famous for their big ice cream cones.  So we went to see what it was all about.  I should have taken a picture of the ice cream. We got baby scoops and they were humongous . 

The trip home was not quite as fun. 

 At one point all three of them were mad about something.

Evie and Ryan with our neighbor Macy.  

 

Stew and neighbor Lincoln.  These rascals have fun all over the complex.



TOP 5

1.  Kids being so busy during the day they don't have time to fight.  And they go to sleep well at night.
2.  Stewart getting a calling. He's now the Elder's Quorum President.  It may not be his Top 5, but I'm excited for him.  :)
3.  Stew actually being excited for his tonsil surgery this week because of the ice cream we bought for him to eat afterwards. 
4. Corn on the cob
5.  Passing a group of horse back riders on our way to Farson and little Stew saying, "I just saw my first real cowboy."


BOTTOM 5

1.  Forgetting to sunscreen the kids when they played outside all day.  They had some sad little sunburned faces later.  Boo.  (It was overcast and maybe 70 degrees. I just didn't think about it. Lesson learned.)
2. Our neighbors upstairs house sitting a dog all week.  They have 3 cats that didn't appreciate the dog and in the middle of the night you could hear the cats attacking.
3.  Someone smoking outside the building and they must have been close to a vent, because you could smell the smoke in our laundry room.
4. Buying an avocado and then forgetting about it, and it was overripe when I finally remembered. :(
5. Babysitting a little baby for my friend and my friend telling me that he loves his baby food.  He took two bites and then spit the third bite in my face. 

Touch a Truck

 It was Touch A Truck day at the rec center in Rock Springs this past Saturday.  I thought just a few fire trucks and police cars would be there.

There were tons of different types of trucks and the kids could climb all over and inside of them.

 Stew didn't want to pose for any pictures after the first one, so sorry the pictures are all lame.

And I took them with my phone, so they aren't the best either but it was still really fun.  Evie and Ryan couldn't handle the noise of semi horns going off constantly, so they bailed early and went to the car.  (I'm surprised could handle the noise. )


TOP 5

1.  The kids starting baseball camp this week.  They love it.
2.  Stew getting his tonsils looked at by a different doctor this week and I like this doctor a whole lot more.  Plus he can do his surgery next week in Rock Springs.  Yay!
3. The old classic Disney Robin Hood movie.  Good times.  Hiss is one of my favorite characters.
4. A clean car. 
5.  My Relief Society President bringing me flowers when they came for a visit.  It was really unexpected, but I've been enjoying friendly daisies all week.

BOTTOM  5

1. Evie keeps showing up with mosquito bites. I'm not sure where she's getting them from. The rest of us have been fine.  And I haven't seen any when were outside.  Poor girl.
2. Ryan having growing pains the past couple of nights.  No one is sleeping well.
3.  Trash treasures we find outside our door every morning that the wind blows in.
4. Forgetting to put sunscreen on when we went to the pool.  I remembered everyone else, just not myself.  I had some crispy shoulders for awhile.
5. I can't find a good car wash with a vacuum that has a good suction. 

Flaming Gorge

We are about an hour away from Flaming Gorge and so on a whim we decided to head down there after Evie got out of school. 

 It's a really pretty drive.  Proof that Wyoming does eventually turn green.

 Stewart had a fire going in no time.

 

The kids helped.  Ryan constantly brought Stewart sticks while we were there, asking if what he had was a good stick to put in the fire.

We roasted hot dogs for dinner.

 

 And then had S'mores.  Evie perfected her browning technique.  And took orders from everyone.

They were pretty good.

 

 Ryan jumped off every rock in the area.

 And the kiddos went exploring.

It was just a quick trip down and back.  Next time we hope to stay for a few days instead and go on the water.  :)

TOP 5

1. Evie's done with school.  Hooray!

2. Ryan thinking he is hot stuff swimming around the pool by himself in his puddle jumper floatie. He calls the floatie his "muscles".

3. Wyoming wind.  Because there usually is a breeze it keeps most of the flying bugs away.  I have yet to see flies or mosquitoes.

4.  Finding out about practically free sports camps the kids can do all summer.

5.  Stewie finally wanting to wear a tie to church.  

BOTTOM 5

1. The lady that use to live in our apartment never forwarded her mail.  

2. Stew deciding he no longer wants to be the obedient child.  He's been testing a lot of boundaries this week.  

3.The lotion lady at the kiosk in the mall.  She is very persistent. 

4. Killing my first spider here.  I sprayed him with my spider killing stuff and then paid Stew a dollar to pick up his body.  Money well spent.

5.  Getting Stew's tonsils and adenoids checked out and the doctor recommending that he have them removed but then telling me he can't do the surgery because he recently had surgery on his hand. So he referred us to a Doctor in Jackson (which is 3 hours away.)  No thank you.  So I had to start over with a new doctor from Evanston that comes to Rock Springs once a week.  We'll see if the new doctor recommends surgery or not.