A Little Adventure

I decided to just lump all our summer activities into one post. At the beginning of the summer, we had my sister and her family come to visit. It was so much fun. It was fun to spent time with their family. It was her kids first visit to our house. Milo and Holly loved having extra friends to play with.

A few of the places we went to see/do while they were here were: Round Rock Donuts, to see the Round Rock, Amy’s Ice Cream, to get some Texas shirts, go see the Alamo, as well as going to the Longhorn Stadium, the Texas State Capital and you can’t forget going to Rudy’s.

They had this awesome drinking fountain at the State Capital

Holly at Fiesta Texas

We also went to visit them in San Antonio and went to Fiesta Texas. It was here that Milo went on his first roller coaster ride. He liked it but didn’t want to go again. You can see some pictures from our day at Fiesta Texas at my sister’s first post above.

A few days after my sister left for Utah we flew to Utah for our vacation. It started with a trip to Southern Utah with my family. Again, here’s my sister’s post about the trip.

We went to Capital Reef area and Goblin Valley. Milo and Holly really enjoyed spending time with the cousins. We did manage to get in a couple of world cup games while we were there.

Milo in Capital Reef

Here’s Holly yelling in Goblin Valley

Milo enjoying Goblin Valley

These two pictures are of Holly riding outside Annie’s sun roof and Milo and Holly looking out the binoculars.

At the end of the trip, we stayed in Green River. We spent an evening at the park. While we were there, Holly decided to run around with a stick in her mouth. Not the best idea ever, but you know, whatever.

Holly running around with a stick in her mouth

During the rest of our vacation in Utah, we spent most of it watch world cup games, spending time with Scott’s brother and just hanging out. We did manage to make it to two soccer games. We had a great time in Utah.

We had a great 4th of July with our neighbors. We had some great fireworks! The only other noteworthy thing is Scott and Milo went to Schlitterbahn and enjoyed themselves very much. Milo still talks about the adventure. School starts in 3 weeks so we are attempting to finish up all the fun!

I realized that since school was starting in a month, I better get going on some posts. Milo had his end of year assembly the week before school ended. It was fun because Aunt Jill was able to come to it as well. Milo’s teacher was on maternity leave, but she felt it was important to come in to hand out the awards. Milo’s award was for trustworthiness. We aren’t really sure what that is suppose to mean. We did enjoy the assembly. I can’t believe how much he is growing up.

In an effort to encourage Milo to read books this summer, I got the idea to have the family read books along with him to encourage him. As of today, he has finished 2 books. He is in the middle of a couple of books.

The other encouraging thing that happened was our neighbors had some books they were giving away. They had quite a few in the Magic Treehouse Series, so we got half and our other neighbor’s got the other half of the series. Milo is super excited about those and so maybe we can get some of those read.

He is still enjoying the My Weird School Daze Books by Dan Gutman.

The pictures below are of Milo reading. He is also very proud of his new books.

Wow, Milo’s birthday was more than a month ago. He was super excited for his birthday. It was the last day of school, which made it even all the more fun.

Milo enjoyed his birthday because his Aunt Jill was here for it. We planned for his birthday all week. Milo woke up in the morning to a little balloon hunt that his aunt did for him. Milo requested Round Rock Donuts for his birthday treat at school. As always, they gave us about a million donut holes. The kids loved them.

After school, Milo had his birthday party. He invited a few neighbor friends and a friend from school. It was a games party. We had them shoot darts at Star Wars characters to see how many points they could get. We had a box that had a ball inside. The object of the game was to bounce around to see how fast they could get the ball out of the box. We also had them throw balls from upstairs into boxes below to see how many balls they could get in the boxes. We also played wii for a little bit.

The best part of the party was the Darth Vader pinata we were able to find. The kids all got one shot at it and it had broken open. That was exciting!

To end the party, we had pizza, chocolate cake and ice cream. Milo got a lot of great gifts. He got some legos, and computer games and a few clothes. He had a great day!!

Holly enjoyed helping us put the candy into the pinata.

All the boys looking downstairs to see how the ball thrower was doing.

The view of the boxes downstairs.

Milo with his birthday cake!

Here’s Milo after he completed all of his birthday legos.

I have had a request for a iPhone 4G versions of the wallpaper in this post. I ran a new export of the images and what I believe is the proper resolution and that can be found in a zip file at this link