the rest of August

I have tried to keep up our Bucket List activities and the kids really wanted to try a solar oven.

We did it on a warm day, after school but it didn't work as well as we would have liked. We needed to do it earlier in the afternoon on a hotter day. We will have to save it for next summer. It wasn't a complete fail though...cookies and marshmallows are exciting any day and the marshmallows were soft at least.

I got treated to an impromptu concert one morning.

Doing puzzles with Brynn for one of our afternoon "plans."

Justin's branch was in the Swiss Days parade and the kids were excited to be a part of the excitement.

Brynn was content to be pushed in the stroller.

While Molly and Stockton ran around and threw goodies to the {humongous} crowd.

My mom and dad came up with Erin and her girls to watch the kids in the parade and check out what Swiss Days was all about. It was exciting to see them...the matching shirts were not planned.

Tessa, Molly, Chloe

After the parade we attempted to walk around the booths at Swiss Days. It was super crowded and hard to even push around a stroller. But the booths were fun to look at...we definitely decided that it is something you have to do sans kids.

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