Some End of Summer Fun

While Alyssa and Danny were at Trek, the rest of us had some fun. One of the things we did was brave the crowds at Chik-fil-A on cow appreciation day. The line was long, but they moved us through fast. We took our food to a park instead of fighting for a table there.

We were going to do free slurpees on 7-11, too, but it didn't work in our schedule that day, so I bought them slurpees the next day, with out the long line.
Our Ward had to cancel their annual fathers/sons campout this summer because of a fire that was close to their campground. Instead, Danny brought home a big popcorn popper and snow cone machine from the Convention Center and they did an outdoor movie at the Stake Center. Danny had to spend most of the night making snow cones, but he set up a blanket for the boys and they had fun coming back to him for refills on their snow cones and popcorn.

We finally cashed in on our free escape room, because of the mix up on times with the business we had reserved our room with back in May.  We did a room called Leonardo's Loot. We were able to escape again, with only a couple of hints along the way.

Alyssa started school almost a week before Tyler and Ashley, so on her last day of summer, we took the kids to Cowabunga Bay. It was much overdue, since Ashley has been asking to go there since we moved here 7 years ago. I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I snapped a couple as we were leaving for the day. They are super washed out from the sun, though.

 We invited some of Danny's employee's and their families over for an end of summer BBQ. We served hamburgers and hot dogs, but I bought way too much for the number of people that actually came. As a result, we were eating hamburgers, hot dogs, and their buns in every form I could come up with. One of the meals I did took me back to my mission days. It was the Brazilian Hot Dog. I remembered buying these in one of my areas from a member, who owned a hot dog cart. It had the normal bun and dog, but it also included many more toppings. The 3 toppings I remembered most were mashed potatoes, a meat mixture, kinda like chili, and these little hard French fries. Everyone ate it except Tyler and Camden. They said it was pretty good, too.

The end of summer is always a little hard for me. I love the heat, and playing in the water, no schedules, and having my kids around. Although, it is nice to have less fighting and no guilt about whether or not I got my kids to do enough educational activities and work for the day. School kind of takes care of that for me. Now, as the weather cools and the leaves are falling, we can look forward to the fun holidays we have coming up. I will try not to be too sad that snow and cold are just around the corner.