Summer Time is Here

The kids have been out of school now for a few weeks.  We have such a busy summer this year. Right after school got out, Jacob completed his Eagle Scout Project.  He needs to finish the paperwork next.  He is also taking an online math class through BYU.  Jacob and Stuart already went on the Scout High Adventure. Diane and Jacob are enrolled in summer school history classes which are 3 weeks long .  Chad and Stuart left this morning for scout camp. Stuart will return on Tuesday night and Chad will come back next Saturday.  On Monday, Greg and Eli will go to summer intersession at school, which lasts for 3 weeks and Chad will go to it when he returns from camp.  Diane is looking for a job and has applied to volunteer at the hospital.  She is also applying for college scholarships online.  She is teaching piano to 2 students for the rest of this month, then takes July off.  All the kids are taking a break from piano and Aikido lessons for the summer. We have swam in the neighbor's pool several times already.  We also went to Gilbert to visit Stuart's sister, Laurie's, family.  We brought her daughter, Lexi, back with us for a few days and Laurie picked her up last Monday.  Stuart and I have plans to go to the temple in Mesa next Friday afternoon.  Chad hoped to get to work on his eagle scout leadership project (putting a gate into a fence for a public school). Then, on July 8, we will leave for our family vacation to Utah.  It will take us 2 days to get to Stuart's parents' home.  Then we'll pick up our former exchange student, Carina, from the airport on Sunday, July 10.  On July 11, we'll take Diane, Jacob and Diane's best friend, Megan, to BYU for Especially for Youth activity, they will stay there for a week, while the rest of us will visit family and attractions in the Utah Valley area.  We'll head to Moab the next Monday and spend 2 nights there visiting the parks and canyons, then drive to Bryce and Zion's National parks, after that we will go to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and spend 2 nights there.  My in-laws, Megan and Carina will be with us for that part of the trip, then we'll part ways with the Roberts and Drop Megan off with her family in Flagstaff as we head home to Tucson on July 24.  Carina will spend another 2 weeks or so visiting with us.  We all have dentist appointments for cleaning and we'll  do our back-to-school shopping. I also have some gift certificates for horseback riding and I hope to go to Breaker's Water Park before school starts. The K-8 kids are going to attend a new charter school called Legacy Traditional school which starts on August 8.  The high school kids will go to CDO on August 10.  That will be the end of our busy and wonderful summer!