We really tried to soak up some family time before the rush of the school year began. Here are some pictures from around the house/neighborhood.
We also did a timed mile run at the park. Micah and Mike ran a half mile together and then Mike finished his mile while Micah rested. Micah ran without stopping, which impressed us all. Then Ethan and I headed out for our mile run and he beat me by a good minute – such a stud!
We took the boys to Red Rocks for their first concert. We got to see Chris Tomlin, which was a fun treat.
We attended our second Practicum. As the Director for our CC community, I needed to attend trainings on both Foundations tutoring and Essentials tutoring. Micah absolutely loved this – he wore matching shirts with some guys in his little gang for most, if not all, of the days. One of my dearest friends joined our CC community this year, so we attended Practicum together!
We went on a family bike ride out towards Mel and Joel’s house. The hope is that we will do it again and make it all the way there. As it turns out, biking with my family is one of my very favorite things to do. The boys knocked off quite a few more miles towards their summer biking goal that day.
Also, I celebrated my 35th birthday! My hope had been to ride 35 miles that day, so I started the day with a long ride with the boys around the Cherry Creek Reservoir. Both boys reached their 100 mile for the summer goal on this ride. Then later that evening I went out alone and raced the sun and rain, losing my battle and requiring a pick up by Mike and Micah.
We celebrated a friend’s birthday at a cool Ninja gym:
Mike and the boys played golf one of the weekends and I walked along.
The boys got bank accounts, played a lot of legos, took some more bike rides, and brought in their Bookies summer reading contest. Micah wrote me a sweet encouraging note when I was having a rough day, so I had to include that in here.
Meagen graduated with her Masters in engineering (or something like that) and invited me to her graduation. SO proud of her!!!
Mike and I snuck away for a date to see Mumford and Sons at Fiddlers Green again.
And, finally, I had an idea to put some rewards in a jar that I could use throughout the year whenever I needed to motivate the boys. We are all pretty jazzed about it. =)
Next up: the school year begins!
