Pioneer Day

For Pioneer Day, I thought it would be fun to give my kids a Utah meal. We ate Navajo tacos, green jello salad and BYU brownies for dessert. Over dinner, we talked about pioneers and our ancestors. Best lines from dinner:

Donovan: "Who are my aunt's sisters?" (ancestors)

Donovan, who has never seen nor eaten green jello salad. He looked at it and said it looked gross and he didn't want any. Avery, after hearing this said "Donovan, that is so rude! You are insulting mom AND Utah!"

Lollipop meet!

Donovan has been working so hard on his swimming this year. He gas been on the Little Vikings team, which is the developmental part of our neighborhood swim team. He started the year not really knowing how to swim much at all. Each week, at the swim meets, the Little Vikings would have a "race" across the deep end (about 12 meters). He started out with a coach swimming with him, but by the end, he could do it all by himself. On Thursday this week, he participated in the "Lollipop Meet," which is a mini swim meet with 3 other teams. He did fantastic. He swam 25 meters all by himself, no coach even in the pool with him. He swam the 25 meter freestyle and also the noodle relay. I was so proud of him, and he was proud of himself! The Little Vikings were so adorable, and stood along the fence and cheered for their teammates nonstop throughout the entire race, which was nearly 3 hours long!

Our cold summer day

After a hot, hot few weeks, we were so glad to get a break today. High of 69, cloudy and drizzly, I felt like I was in Oregon. It was a good day though. Avery had her last swim meet this morning and did a great job. This afternoon, we went to watch the youth conference dance festival. There were about 1300 LDS kids from the Northern Virginia dancing in the festival and the kids did such a great job. On the way home, we stopped and ate at Pei Wei, which we love. It was a great day!