For summer this year, I tried a new chore chart and found it to be really successful. I had a pocket for each kid and I made chore cards with specific instructions on how to complete the chore (otherwise they stand there and stare at the room completely overwhelmed). As long as I remembered to put in a new chore, they were really good about waking up and doing it every day. I also had their basic morning routine on the door so they remembered to do everything before playing.
Boating season also began on the 5th and because we had so much rain this year, the lake was insanely high and very very cold, so luckily we all had wetsuits!
We met up with Abby one day and visited the dinosaur museum at BYU with the kids, afterwards we got ice cream at The Creamery on 9th.
After the Wilsons went home for naptime, the boys really wanted to go to the Bean Museum.
That evening, Dave and I went on a date to The Rooftop Concert series in Downtown Provo, which is a regular free concert on Center Street. We ate dinner at a Japanese restaurant right there on Center Street while we waited for the concert to start. I grabbed us some pastries from a little French bakery right there while we listened. There were a couple opening acts, Robert Loud and then Mindy Gledhill, and then The National Parks were the headliners. They were fantastic, but we had to leave in the middle of their set to relieve Dave's parents who were babysitting at our place.
Driving home, the wind really picked up and was pushing our car. We got home and the wind was out of control! Dave and I had to drag our trashcans back to our house from down the street. Then we realized we hadn't tied down the trampoline so we bundled up, grabbed the flashlights, and ran outside into the wind to quickly tie down the tramp before the wind could take it. We ran around the yard collecting life jackets and things that had blown out of the boat as well. It was a pretty crazy wind storm.
On the 10th, the boys and I met up with my friend Carla and her 4 kids at their place to go swim. Their family moved here from Chile and few months ago and the boys are all similar ages to her kids. Miles and Pedro are both 5 and have very similar personalities, so it was pretty fun watching them play, especially when neither of them know what the other one is saying.
On the 11th, Jett and I went to Cub Scout camp in Eagle Mountain and it was probably the worst one I've ever been to. It was terribly organized and run by teenagers who had no idea what they were doing. But the only thing the boys cared about was shooting BBs and doing archery. Luckily they did both. Jett shot his arrow into the center of the target which was pretty impressive considering they gave virtually no instruction on how to shoot.
This Summer, I had each of the boys plan and make dinner once a week (and by "make dinner" I mean help me make dinner), so I got to teach them all some skills. It definitely tried my patience, but they really enjoyed it and looked forward to being in charge of dinners. Miles learned how to peel and cut cucumbers since he LOVES them, however, he tends to eat while cooking. I once had him peel and slice a cucumber and when I came back to check on him, he had peeled and sliced, then eaten more than half of it. Cruise's big new skill was how to cut and prepare a vegetable tray. Jett learned how to make a fruit smoothie without added sugar.
On the 24th, we went to the Bean Museum yet again, but this time with Abby and her kids. We went to the reptile show but it was suuuuper boring and way too looooong. We ended up leaving the show early.
...And that was June.
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