The Green's Summer Highlights

Although, technically, there are several more days of summer... we're not going anywhere.  I thought I'd share some of the season's highlights for our family:

I was able to play softball this year.  Our team did pretty well and made it to the playoffs. However, the playoffs were during girls camp, and I never actually found out how our team faired.

Speaking of girls camp I had the pleasure of being the camp photographer this year.  The theme was "B.O.O.T. Camp" (Building Our Own Testimonies) and we got to run around in camouflage.  That is my cup of tea!  There are a bunch more pictures that I'm tempted to include, but I think that is going to have to be it's own post (Denise, this is fair warning).  

Jayden took swimming lessons again this year over at the Clark's.  It has made such a difference! I think he's still cautious around water (or maybe that's me being terrified of water), but he's not scared of it anymore.  He loves to wear his goggles, even in the bathtub... (and if wearing his goggles is all the bribery it takes to get him in the tub, I'm okay with it).

We usually make it up to Bear Lake a couple times each summer, and this year was no exception.  It is a great getaway and such a pretty lake.  We're usually there over the 24th of July, and it's fun to see all the rich people shoot off their illegal fireworks over the lake.

Somewhere in the middle of all this we went to a family reunion at Heber Valley Girls Camp. It is a beautiful camp, and we were able to go out on the lake in canoes and enjoy the scenery. 

The highlight of that weekend was definitely the challenge course.  When you first meet for

 the activity, you meet right in front of the zip line.  You have to climb about twenty feet up, walk about 15 feet across a log, and then you're hooked up to a zip line and off you go.  I was pretty intimidated, but luckily there are a bunch of other activities you do first, and you kind of build up to the zip line.  I should mention that we also signed up Jayden for the challenge course, so I was trying to verbalize how fun and cool this was going to be, all the while trying to figure out if I was going to be able to do it myself.

Finally, it was time for the zip line.  I didn't have as much trouble as I thought, because you are on belay the whole time, and you feel very supported and like you wouldn't drop an inch, even if you jumped off the top of the tower.  So I went on the zip line- it was actually pretty fun, but the whole time I was just thinking about Jayden, because he was going shortly after me.  I figured he'd climb about half way up the pole and get scared and want to get down- but I would be happy that he at least tried.

Much to my surprise, the kid climbs up the twenty foot pole without any hesitation, walks across the log to the platform where the sister missionary hooks him up to the zip line.  She seemed a little surprised and asked how old he was... I don't know how many four year olds do the zip line, but I was sure proud of him!  I kept thinking "that's MY kid!"

We wrapped up the summer with our annual fishing trip in Montana.  The most exciting part of the trip occurred when we first arrived and Tyson was helping his dad park their trailer. Jayden and I were checking out some of the other spots and I saw a fairly large fuzzy animal saunter behind one of the small cabins in the campground. But it was just a bear, and my pulse only jumped to 193 bpm, and it's possible I may have slightly cut off the circulation in Jayden's hand as I dragged him by the wrist back to our campsite... no biggie.