Swimming Lessons:
We signed the kids up for swimming lessons at Goldfish Swim School at the end of winter/early spring. They go once a week for 30 minutes. It is really pricey, but they have made a lot of progress. Sophie and Aspen have moved up quite a few levels and are looking really good (especially Sophie). (We haven't been impressed with Luke's class. But he's young and I don't know how much you can teach kids that age anyway.) At first as we would watch their lessons we wondered what the teachers were teaching them because some of the drills looked really strange. But they we learned they were trying to teach them how to turn their heads for side breaths and things like that. When I took swimming lessons as a kid, I feel like I learned how to swim to not drown. But they have actually been learning strokes like the breast stroke and butterfly. We are going to take a break when the baby is born, but plan to keep them going later this year.
STEM Fair:
Sophie participated in her 2nd grade STEM fair. She wanted to do a project on different types of bird feeders. So we researched different styles and went to a few stores. Then she and Isaac built some in our shop. She wanted to do a science project about which ones attracted the most birds, so we set up our security camera to watch the feeders. Weeks went by and no birds ever came. So we had to switch her project to an engineering project at the last minute. She evaluated which feeders worked the best. Some blew over in the wind and dumped out seed, others wiggled too much and scared away the birds, etc. She put her presentation together and ended up winning 2nd place. Congratulations Sophie!
Hill Air Force Museum:
One day Grandma Sugar thought it would be fun to go up to the Hill Air Force Museum. So we invited the Lloyd's and Booth's and went up. Basically there are just a ton of old airplanes that you can walk around and look at. I was disappointed that we couldn't go in any of them. But museums aren't my favorite, and they bore me, so it was a good activity for a little while but not something I get super excited about. It was a good way to spend a day.
Horseback Riding Camp:
This summer we signed Sophie and Aspen up for a 2 day horseback riding camp. It was at a stable in Lehi. When I showed up to drop them off it was really hard to find the location. But when I finally found it, a girl who looked about 16 years old seemed to be in charge. She said she was waiting for a few more helpers and eventually another teenager showed up. Then she started dividing the kids into groups. She assigned Sophie and Aspen to a little girl that was standing next to me. I assumed she was there for the camp, not a leader. She looked like she was 12 years old (and when I picked them up Sophie told me the girl was only 10). I was panicking because I didn't feel safe leaving my girls with a child who was too small to control a horse. Fortunately (or unfortunately) the girls only rode the horses for about 15 minutes a day (out of a 4 hour per day camp). They spent most of the time learning about horses and their equipment, doing a craft, and eating lunch. Overall I was extremely disappointed and won't be sending my kids back there. But Sophie and Aspen had a lot of fun and didn't notice any of that stuff.
Wheeler Farm Camp:
Isaac also discovered a summer camp at Wheeler Farm. He told me about it and I thought it sounded a lot like we pay someone to use our kids a child labor, but we signed them up anyway. They were there every morning for a week. They got to feed animals, go for wagon rides, do a craft, and ride a horse. Their favorite part was buying a stuffed animal at the trading post. (They have more stuffed animals than anyone on the planet, but they absolutely love them and are always so excited when they get a new one.) But they also loved going for rides on the wagon and little cow carts. Aspen was always exhausted when I picked her up, but they looked forward to going every morning.
Framing the Shop:
Ever since we moved into our house, I have organized every room except the shop. I left that to Isaac. And it was becoming a disaster zone. Yard tools and shovels were all over the floor that you tripped on going in there. It was dirty and hairy from giving Isaac and Luke haircuts. So I kept pressuring Isaac to let us finish it. He kept telling me to organize it myself, but I felt there was no point until we had some cupboards and shelves to put things. So Isaac started framing the shop himself. He worked a little by himself and was really meticulous about it. But then my dad came to help him and they got most of it done in 1 day. We then had our neighbor come do the electrical wiring for us. And I asked Isaac to have the drywall up by Sophie's birthday party. So the day of her party, he finished hanging the dry wall around noon. He still has to tape and mud it. But hopefully we will have the shop finished in the next month or so.
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