End of Summer Fun!

I've been feeling like such a lazy mom these last few weeks of summer. At least I have a good excuse, but the end of our summer has been shaping up to be pretty good, so now I don't have to feel so guilty for being a slacker mom. We went to Yellowstone last Saturday and just enjoyed a day of driving, beautiful weather and scenery and we got to see 3 bears! We finished up soccer for Matthew and Gracie this week and we went to the City of Rexburg employee party where the kids got to enjoy a giant water slide, a climbing wall, free carousel rides and good food. Then last night we went to the Madison County Fair. We walked over since the fairgrounds are basically around the corner from our house. We watched a little of the rodeo, they jumped in a bouncy thing, shot guns, climbed all over an army tank (Kris kept insisting it wasn't a tank but who knows what a Howitzer? is anyway!) enjoyed snow cones and fudge, and looked at all the animals. It was a small town af'fair' (ha,ha, I kill me) but we had a nice time anyway! On Tuesday they are having a big citywide back to school party for all the kids in the area called Celebrate Youth and they will have a bunch of carnival games and dinner (I can't turn down free food) so the kids are looking forward to that and getting back to school. I think they are bored with me.