In August we drove to Colorado and spent a week at a camping resort in the mountains. The kids love this place and this was our second year to go. We had so much fun that we already made reservations for next summer. This place is the ultimate family vacation spot.
So I recenltly found a way to help out homeless dogs and cats without having to own a million animals. Our local animal shelter has a foster program which allows people to take animals into thier home until they can become adopted. Monday I went to get our dog her shots and discovered that they had a dozen mother cats with new kittens and more coming in every day. So we brought home a mother cat and her three kittens to care for until they are old enough to get adopted. It is also hopefully helping the cat and kittens be more friendly by being a part of our family instead of in a tiny kennell all day. We are having so much fun. The kids are learning the importance of taking care of animals and the best part is we get to try to find them a home with someone else! So far so fun!
This year our Fourth of July was a little less traditional. It was just the four of us and unfortunately all fireworks were banned in our county because of the severe drought we were in. So we decided to go spend the day in the water watching 8000 ducks race down a water slide and into a lazy river. The kids had so much fun playing in the water park. After we had exhausted all energy from swimming we went to America's best place to eat, Freebirds. After a 20 minute nap in the car on the way home the kids were ready for some more fun so we did what anyone else would do on the Fourth, watched fireworks. Only this time we watched them on our television streamed in from Orlando, Florida, Sydney, Australia, and Washington D.C. All in all it was a pretty good Fourth of July.
Tuesday Clayton got the opportunity after only 4 weeks of TaeKwonDo to test for his yellow belt. He had to count to five in Korean and recite the five tenants which are Honesty, Integrity, Perseverance, Self Control, and Indomitable Spirit. His pronunciation was off a little on the larger words but it is fun listening to him try to enunciate words like Indomitable Spirit and Perseverance. All in all he did a great job preforming his moves on command in front of an audience. We are very proud.
Yesterday some friends drove down to Galveston with us for a day at the beach. This is technically the kids first time to go to the beach, but I don't know that brown water really counts as the beauty you usually associate with the beach. The kids had a blast. Even with a ton of sunblock we are all like little red crabs today. Sara even enjoyed sharing some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the seagulls. Super fun day!
