Last week of summer, Primary fun, Legos, Brighton Camp, Menchies, FB, and Temple Square

Adeline's primary teacher sent me these when she was trying to build Solomon's temple I think? She was very animated :) 

Collin bought the cool Hogwart's Lego set. 

Evelyn spent the last full week of summer at Brighton Camp, for the first time. She LOVED it!

Adeline and I went on a date to her favorite place Menchies, a frozen yogurt place. 

Took Collin on free rootbeer float day before work.

Liam helped out at the bantam game doing the chains before the blue and white game. 

The padres came into town for Collin's birthday, so that Saturday we went down and saw some of the new Temple Square stuff. The temple! Looks so weird to finally see it without construction!

The new Christus building. 

Eating at City Creek for lunch. 

And here is some fun news! For summer reading, everyone that completed it got to turn in a ballot for the drawing and EVELYN WON! She chose the teen gift basket and was SO excited to go and pick up her prize! It's been a really fun summer!
 

Summer fun at Splash Summit Waterpark

Out of order pic of Evelyn going down the big yellow slide. 

So we did use our Get Out pass this summer to go to Splash Summit in Provo. We didn't end up finding a day that everyone could go last summer and ran out of time, so this year, when I asked we had a Saturday before school started and the weather was good so we went. But, like at most water parks, due to a lot of things and being in the water, I didn't take a lot of pictures, minus all my kids going down this crazy yellow slide. I wasn't brave enough :(

Here is Collin in stages going down.

And then Liam was next. You have to zoom in on the pictures ha ha.

Then Adeline. It was her first time going down this and she was a little nervous, but also very brave! 

And Evelyn was the last to go. 

It was a fun day and reminds me of why I am thankful we do Saturday adventures and take time and money to preserving memories. 
 

Oregon Coast trip, first part Shoshone Falls

My camera was struggling to work on our drive out to the Oregon Coast trip, so I had Liam use his phone to take a couple of pictures when we stopped at Shoshone Falls. I can tell my phone wasn't working and I didn't take any, because we only had 2 pictures ha ha. It was a nice break and we stopped and ate lunch by the falls. 

Obviously, later in the summer it's not nearly as full, but it was still a pretty scene that most of our family hadn't seen!
 

Day 9, Willamette Valley Temple baptisms

Clear back in the day when I was planning this trip, I remember hearing about some new Oregon temple and found out it would actually be close to our trip on the way back so I planned for us to stop there before we headed home. It was the Willamette Valley Temple and our apt. was at 8 am I think so fairly early, but it was a very pretty temple. And very personalized since even though it's not one of the smaller ones, definitely smaller than we are used to in Utah.

Liam stayed back at the hotel with Adeline but we got some nice pictures since it was only a couple minute drive from our hotel. We could actually see the temple spires from one of our hallway windows on our floor. And then we worked our way back over the next couple of days to back home.