Summer Days

My house is suddenly messier, louder and crazier.... it must be summer.  Don't get me wrong,  I LOVE SUMMER and  am  not complaining (well 99% of the time I am not complaining) .  I love hot weather, late nights, summer food, having my kids home, no schedules,  relaxing etc.

With four kids home though we do need a little bit of structure.  Here is a very brief glance of how part our days in the summer go..... 

Every Day:  The kids have a list of jobs they need to do.  These include certain jobs around the house, a worksheet page, reading, etc.

Once those are done, we try to do something based on what day it is. 

Monday: Library- Every Monday we go to the Sandy library.

Afton and Lilly love to sit at the little tables
at the Sandy Library and look at their books.

After checking out books at the library, this is basically
 what my two older kids do the rest of the day on Monday. 

Tuesday:  Swimming at an outdoor pool- We usually rotate between Draper Pool (my favorite) and Cottonwood (the kids new favorite)

Each year it is getting easier and easier to take the girls. 
This year they can go into the little bit deeper water which is fun.

Extra bonus on the days Dad can come with us!

What's swimming without a snack break. 
Cottonwood lets you bring food in so the girls are munching on some banana chips here.

Wednesday:  Field Trip Day- our brainstorming list ranges from $1 movie, zoo, bowling, etc.
These pictures are from when we went to City Creek with a friend.

Afton, Lilly and our neighbor friend Greta checking out the fountains at City Creek.

Afton posing on rocks at City Creek.

Thursday: Cowabunga Bay- a lot of friends in our neighborhood have season passes there too so it is fun to hang out with friends.

It is hard to get pictures at Cowabunga. 
But I did get a picture of Lizzie with her favorite snack there.
 It is called bucket of fries :) They are delicious!!!

Friday:  Art or science project- we have a list of different art or science projects we want to do. On this day we did a project my parents gave the girls for their birthday (back in March).  We finally got around to opening the box.  Special bonus my mom came to visit and could see the present being used.

Hanging outside on a summer day doing crafts :)

Absolutely perfect project for Afton's always busy hands!
 

 We still have lots more fun and relaxing planned for the summer.
  It is going by too fast already.
 How can July already be here in just a few days!!!!