Saying Goodbye to Summer

Since school is back in session and it's September I guess it's time to face the fact that summer is over. That's actually okay with me since fall is my favorite time of year. I'm not looking forward to what's next, but I'll just enjoy the slightly cooler weather and not look too far ahead. But before I let summer go entirely, I thought I'd post a few random pictures from this summer that never made it into any blog posts, but that I kind of like.

Oh, I remember this. Ugh. What a lot of work. The kids were such a big help in redoing our landscaping and we're quite pleased with the results.

Matthew's Cub Scouts Space Derby. Kind of like a Pinewood Derby but with rockets. That go sideways.

This jacket came all the way from Russia just for Camille. There is a member there who was a friend of my parents named Kostya (sp?) who loves soccer. When he saw some of the pictures of Camille playing soccer on this blog on my parents computer he was impressed. He would always ask about her. This was his jacket from the time the Rostov team was in the championship. He asked my parents to send it to Camille. We took this picture of Camille and sent it back to him with her thank you note.

Camille and Matt snuggled up watching fireworks on the 4th of July.

Scott was thrilled, THRILLED, I say, to be able to participate with 3000 other area youth in the Youth Spectacular in the Weber State Stadium in July. His major, pivotal part was as one of the flag holders in the finale. If you look hard you can see them, in navy t-shirts, holding the large country flags. I thought it was actually a wonderful event, once all the trillion practices were over and we got to actually watch it all together.

More sunset pictures. The deck's a wonderful place to be, as long as it's not a hot, late summer afternoon.

A rainbow during one of Kevin's soccer tournament games in Park City.

Camille and Kevin carting out a big tray of watermelon that Camille lovingly prepared before Grandma and Grandpa's open house after their mission homecoming. I guess I was visiting too much, because this is the only picture I took the whole time.

Another tournament. This time in West Jordan.

Matt receiving his Wolf badge.

And that's all folks. On to fall!!