Time to catch up on our summer vacation. The first week in California we spent at a beach house in Newport Beach with the Harts. We had a great time catching up with family. Playing in the sand and the water. 
Abby really love boogie boarding this year. It brought me back to when I would go out all day in the water. Now I'm a wimp and wish the water was warmer.
Shea loved it!
Leah and Rusty running from the waves. 
In Wyoming we stopped at Little America and had some tasty ice cream cones. This was our last stop before arriving in Salt Lake. On our way out I was telling the kids that this was the way the pioneers went to get to Utah. Abby asked if it took them 3 years...it really is an amazing thing they did coming out west so they could be free to worship what we know is true.
Shea meeting Great Grandma Hart for the first time. We stayed at my grandma's for a couple nights. I've always had the best memories at my grandma's house, it was fun to let my kids have those memories too.
Visiting Temple Square in Salt Lake
The Garner's had a fun party for Abby's 9th birthday. It was lots of fun being able to celebrate with them. 
Shea meeting Uncle Danny
I wonder what her wish was.
Shea's birthday is two days after Abby's, so we celebrated her 1st birthday too!
We started our trip in the middle of June, during the floods in the Midwest. This was our first stop. We had just crossed over the Mississippi River into Iowa. The Mississippi is in ithe background. Notice the happy faces, I don't think they understood just how long we would be driving. When we got back on the highway we found out the I-80 was closed due to flooding. We were taken on a 2-3 hour detour, but we did get to see the entire state of Iowa. It was really sad to see all these farms that were completely flooded.
This was our hotel the first night. We were happy to finally make it there. The girls really liked that they got to stay in a castle.
Here is another rest stop. This one is in Nebraska, although I'm not positive I would guess that the playground equipment was made out of old farm equipment. The girls loved it anyway.
We stayed in Denver with my sister's family for a few days. We had fun with cousins and playing at the sprinkler park.
We also got to see the Wilsons! They are friends of ours from Champaign who moved out to Denver it was lots of fun catching up with them.
Today was officially the last day of school. Abby had to go to school for an hour this morning. Brynn's last day of school was yesterday. I think Brynn had a memorable last day of kindergarten, there was a tornado warning so all of the kids in school had to put their tornado drill skills into practice. They said they were like that for about an hour. Crazy.
To celebrate the last day of school we made funnel cakes for breakfast. We all know there is lots learning going on for the last day of school, so why not a nice healthy meal to start out the day?
Here is Abby in her tie dye shirt she made at school.
We went to a little waterpark this afternoon, when we got home Brynn was eating a nectarine and out came her first tooth. She was so excited. I find it rather ironic that it's the day vaction begins because all year long she has been asking me when she is going to lose a tooth because everyone else has missing teeth. Now that's some peer pressure! We will have to find out if the tooth fairy comes tonight!
We also had some friends over to play tonight. We were heading out to the backyard to play some soccer and I see this turtle on our lawn. I couldn't believe the size of it.
The kids were fascinated with the turtle. 
