Tubing with Rachel

 We took Rachel tubing for her first time last summer and she loved it.  She's been asking to go out again, so today we took her tubing for her second time.  Rachel tubed alone and with Connor.  She spent more than an hour on the tube!  Kaiden only tubed once for about 15 minutes today.  After tubing Rachel gave Connor a scorpion necklace she got for him the week prior when she went to California.  Rachel and her mom, Elizabeth also invited Connor and I to a game night at Bear Totum (a game shop).  They have game nights every Tuesday so we joined them.  Connor, Rachel, her sister Alejandra, her friend and 2 strangers all decided to play Ticket to Ride.  Elizabeth, Keith (stranger) and I all played Azul, which is actually one of the games I bought about a year ago but we have never played it because until now I didn't know how to play it.  Fun night!  I love board games.

Northern Quest Concerts

 Jason and I went to another outdoor concert at Northern Quest.  The opening band was Candlebox, which was pretty good.  Followed by Jerry Cantrell- they had a couple okay songs but the majority of their music we didn't care for.  The main band was Bush, which is what Jason really wanted to see.  They did amazing!  The music was great, the lead singer was so energetic and interactive.  They sang for over an hour and the lead singer never took any breaks and he was bouncing all over the stage the entire time.  He even wandered through the entire stadium and up to the very top seats during one of the songs... hugging people and singing as he went.  We had a great time.  This was definitely our favorite concert that we've seen at Northern Quest.

Tubing with Gerald

I made Connor a frozen lemon pie for his birthday.  It's his favorite.  Connor's friend Gerald came over for the day.  They swam, talked and then we went tubing.  This was Gerald's first time tubing and he loved it.  Back home Kaiden rode his electric motorcycle and played with Colton and Dawson.  That night we had a fire and made smores. 

Connor's 16th birthday

 I've been asking Connor what he wants to do for his birthday party for months.  This is his sweet 16, but he really doesn't want to do anything special.  So, we took him out to a family dinner.  He loves sea food, so we went to Red Lobster for some shrimp, lobster and crab.  The staff sang Happy Birthday to him and he got some ice cream.  We planned on getting him a Key Lime pie (he loves lemon/lime things) but they were out.  We did get a brownie/ice cream cup for all of us to share, but it was really rich so Kaiden ended up eating most of it.

Hawk Creek Camping

 This was our 3rd or 4th camp trip to Hawk Creek.  Sometimes the water level is really low and the bank is muddy, but this year the water level was really high.  This was our favorite trip to Hawk Creek! Kaiden brought his friend Alex.  Connor's friend Mason was suppose to come too, but his driver's Ed class just started.  Our friend Kevin camped with us again.  We went boating, tubing, Jason tried wakeboarding, lots of kayaking, board games, lego's, reading and Kaiden and Alex made a new friend- Simon.  We had a fun and relaxing time!  One of the days Jason took the 3 boys out tubing, but Kevin and I decided to stay behind and instead we kayaked for hours.