June 23 - Hello Summer

After a great Father's Day weekend, I flew to Florida early Monday morning for a week in the office. Julia went to her first ever girl scout camp, Luke was a Montessori, JD was Mr. Mom and Amelia was...well, feeling neglected without mommy! Julia had a great time at camp, which was held outside in a local park called Bay Area Park. Yes, you read that correctly-camp was outside all day. One hundred campers were at the camp and they were organized into groups by grade. Julia's group had 6 girls and were lead by 'Jersey Girl' and assisted by two goddesses 'Flutter' and 'Chi Chi' (all the counselors and goddesses (teens) go by fun names). Julia LOVED Chi Chi and talked about her constantly. Throughout the week, the girls made crafts, sang songs, did skits, went canoeing and did archery. There was a water station for the girls to keep them cool and they wore wet bandannas as well. Hannah attended the camp as well (she was in a different group) and also had a blast. JD, Nic and Tammy all carpooled the girls from swim team in the early morning and then to camp. Luke had a great time at Montessori as well. He has splash day every Wednesday in the summer (they have a whale splash pad) and they had a magician come to school on Friday. He was very excited about all the magic tricks! 

Julia's last swim meet was this past Saturday and I can't believe the season is over already. It's amazing how good her stroke is getting and how much faster she is than the beginning of the season (backstroke: first meet was 1:16, last meet was 44 sec, free: first meet was 43 sec, last meet 35 sec). Most importantly, she had fun! I think Luke is going to miss the donuts at the swim meet (6:45am Saturday he requested a donut because 'I'm a donut monster momma.') 

In other news, JD and Julia went to a father/daughter dance at NASA the Friday before Father's day weekend. They busted a move and JD treated her to a milkshake afterward. Luke and I had a fun time at home building tent forts and playing hide-and-go-seek. Of course, Amelia follows me everywhere so it's always easy to find mommy, hehe. We've also been spending time at our neighbor's pool, the kids love playing with Evey and Lauri. Happy Summer everyone!

Silly relays at the meet last weekend - go team pink!

Trail next to the pool, slightly blurry but Luke loved taking walks through here

Swim meet tents. Does this bring back memories parents?!

Rest in between events? No thanks mom, I want to climb

Julia and Hannah

PineBrookwood Orcas team photo. Julia is in the bottom row, third from the right (we're missing a lot of kids)