Summer Time

June is rolling by and with it the heat just keeps on pounding....it continues to feel like August and with the rain the humid hottness is quite much!  The kids are off and rolling into summer-June is always busy.  Brayden had a week of basketball and a small tounament..of course not in Tulsa which required driving, always a pain as I am spoilled living so close to school.  James completed two weeks of swimming-he was in a group with 6th graders.  He prefected his free style and worked on back stroke and a bit of breast stroke.  He loves to dive and jump off both low and high dive.  The girls had a fun week with their ignite group the other week.  They had lazer tag, a scavenger hunt at Turkey Mountain and then a morning serving at the food bank.  This week Becca and Andrea are participating and leading at VBS and James is having a blast at basketball camp-shooting threes has been his goal this week.  Brayden is off to Wind River Wyoming to help lead VBS to kids living on the reservation.

Becca finished up her soccer season with a pool party and a movie...I think the girls watched the entire movie in the pool!

Ignite week at church....kids were put into groups to compete for the week.

Always off the high dive during warm ups.  Kind of wierd only having to take one to lessons and not have to push a stroller up the huge hill or have a pile of shoes and towels to keep track of...I felt old with this crowd of moms!

 Church has some changes this summer and to kick it off they had a picnic with a bake-off and blow-ups/water slides. Andrea won for best cake....Grandma H's chocolate cake.

 Becca won for best brownies

 Winners....best overall was Everet with Baklava-sooo good!

 My crew for the summer.

Time always made for crafts...this afternoon the kids made a bunch of play dough.  I am now totally out of salt!  The other day they asked for more popcicle sticks...I think they went through a pack of 1000

Pool has been in full use already...we enjoyed a fun evening with our small group families and this monday Becca had over 30 kids over for their weekly class bible study.  It is really they only way to stay cool during the summer....pools and snow cones!

Friday night watching Tulsa Tough crit racers...one crash right in front of us at the finish line-some pretty unhappy riders.

Brayden was off early the next morning before Ron and I headed out for our long ride...a passenger van filled with middle school kids all headed to Wyoming for the week.

   The beginning of our 100mile trek

 Ron lasted till about mile 80...I finished and managed fourth in my age group (only 20 females did the 100mile)

Sunday we all rode the 5mile family ride around downtown and then watched the pro's race along riverside and crybaby hill.  It is a super hard course and we saw some great riders...even better was that we scored some seats under a tent at the bottom of the hill in site of the big screen.  The only downside was the fact that the snow cone people ran out of ice before we could get any!

 It was the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show this past weekend as well.  I love this small town bit of history they work at keeping and teaching.

 James thought it was pretty funny they names this bull Howdy.

 They get out the old stage coaches, lots of trick riding, rope tricks and just fun races with horses.  Pawnee bill lived here in Pawnee and learning about the history behind his life and his traveling show is always very interesting.

They also had an 11 year old girl come out and trick ride...her grandma was sitting behind us in the stands.  So fun to hear and watch.


This video is funny because the family in front were locals and cheering on their cousin....they kids were so fun to watch.
Short clip of Horse Races