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. 

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

Cameron thought it would be fun to sit in the back of the police truck, and then close the door.  Continue reading »