Jun 302016
 

Hello everyone!  As you can see, it has been a busy month and we have not gotten a blog up for a while.  But, fear not!  We will have a great recap!

Like I said, this has been a crazy month.  Let’s go back to June 9th.  After finding out that we were not going to move, we decided to remake our entire house.  We moved everything, cleaned all of the carpets, and rearranged all of the furniture to make everything seem new.  That has been a ton of work, and we still are not quite finished with everything.  Sometimes I think it would be easier to move.  But, through all of it, we have been moving and active as well as lifting all of the stuff in the house.  We have slacked on the formal “exercise” time, but we are still moving!  Our increased activity is really showing up, not only in our waistlines, but in our endurance as well.

On Saturday the 11th, we started out at the Riverton Hospital health fair.  It is fun to go around those events and learn some more healthy things, but we were really there to get new bike helmets for everyone.  We are going to get our bikes out and fixed up after we get home from vacation, and we all needed new helmets.  We learned a bunch more about being healthy.  And then we raided the fruit box.  It was great that they had fruit available for snacking.

2016 Riverton Health Fair Photo ED0611104921

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Jun 072016
 

Hello again!  Well we had another wild week getting out and getting active for the Heart challenge.  That isn’t quite right.  We had another wild week getting out and getting active for us, BECAUSE of the Heart Challenge.   This week  all of the kids were home from school.  That was hard to keep them limited to their 1 hour of screen time….They didn’t do as well this week as some of the others.  But we are still not watching the TV or the computer even a third as much as they did last summer.  It is a dramatic improvement.  We are also getting out more of our board games, legos and even books!  Leatha has always read like her life depended on it, but the others are really making it a point now.

Saturday was Cameron’s Birthday!  He finally turned 13 and was a little bit crazy about it.  We did a bunch of outdoor activities in between opening presents and doing our regular household chores.  We started out in the morning, at the giant kick off party held by Salt Lake count libraries.  They were kicking off the summer reading program.  We do the program every year, one, because we like to read, and two, we get free passes to the Natural History Museum if we complete the program.  It is a bunch of fun.  So was the kick off party.  IMG_5237 IMG_5232 IMG_5227

The kids got to sit in fire trucks again and learn some fun things about DNA, as well as play in some bounce houses.

 

 

 

 

 

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