Busiest July Ever :)

With Martin staying with us during July we planned a lot of fun things to do.  I told Paul it was our family "stay-cation."  Here's a list of what we did:

• BBQ at our friends house who also was hosting a french student, Marie
• We had fun learning about French baking from Martin
• Going to a Bastille Party at my HS friend's house
• We went to the University of Utah campus to see where Brooke is going to live 
• We went to the new Natural History Museum at Research Park
• Played a super fun outdoor laser tag game
• Celebrated Martin's birthday by going to Cafe Rio and to the drive in movies
• We watched my nephew Jaxon play baseball
• We  went bowling
• We went swimming
• We put up the giant slip n slide for the youth in our ward
• We went to Butlerville Days on July 24th
• We went camping at Washington Lake
• We spent a few days at our family cabin
• Watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics
• Met Martin's parents
• Attended Justin's mission president's homecoming, a friend's son's farewell, and another friends' son's homecoming
• Watched Taylor's summer select soccer team play in the Roy tournament and win in the championship game that went to a shootout
• Giving Taylor his FIRST driving lesson around the loop up at Brighton
• And watched lots of movies - usually late at night

Now that I've got a list of all that we did I can use that to do the rest of the posts to add the pictures that we took.  It was a really great experience having Martin stay with us and now we really miss him.  He quickly became part of our family and now we've had another family member leave us :(