Last Days of Summer

The last days of summer break were filled with doing those things on our summer to-do list that hadn't gotten done yet.  The girls went to Rexburg Rapids with friends, we de-cluttered a few more areas of the house, we made some apricot jam with apricots picked at Mrs. Myasaki's house (librarian friend at Kennedy), and did school clothes shopping.  This year 99% of Emma's school shopping was done online.  It was awesome!  She is tall enough now that she has to be really careful with the tops she buys, in addition to the jeans/pants.  She found shirts in long sizes at Old Navy online and JC Penney online.  She also bought her jeans via American Eagle online in their extra long sizes.  I'm happy she's not fat, otherwise she'd really be out of luck since it's even harder to find tall plus sizes.  Lauren has grown taller and started thinning out, but her clothes are still easy to find in stores.  Emma gave Lauren lots of hand-me-downs, so we could do all her shopping in Idaho Falls in one afternoon. 

Landon spent most of August working over at Burton.  He had a grand total of 2 weeks off this year for vacation.  We enjoyed it, but we're looking forward to the time when he gets the time off that he really needs to de-compress from the stress of his job/jobs!



Aunt Lorina gave Levi a basket full of books when she was visiting.  We found that the basket is the perfect size for him to sit on and watch TV.  Ironic.




Grammy gave this little lion push toy to Levi when we were in Washington.  He loves it!




Levi loves to be outside.  He's not crazy about grass, but we love to watch him deal with it when we sit him down on it.





Yum!  Apricot jam!  We were able to make 25 pints of jam!





Our neighbors moved and gave us an awesome bike seat and helmet just right for Levi.




He still only falls asleep with Mom.  Not sure how we're going to change that.


 

One more time at the carousel!




Forcing Levi to enjoy the splash park.