Summer is half way over?

I can't believe summer is almost half way over! Time flies when you're busy. We started out taking Kylie to basketball camp at Gonzaga University. She had a great time. One game she got really upset and told her teammates, "If I wasn't a Mormon, I would call her a bad name!" All the girls laughed at her. One girl said, "You're the nicest Mormon I've ever met." She's the only member on the team. Her coach gave her a tub of white frosting for being the "whitest" girl and the "purest" girl. Jory T. drove to pick her up and went shopping at Cabellas for the first time. Cody liked shooting the guns (so did I:).
Thanks to my mother-in-law coming to stay, the next week Jory T. and I went to the LDS scout encampment. I was on the cook crew. I got there Sunday night at 7p.m and we started putting lunch sacks together. We assembled over 4500 lunch sacks that week. We fed on average 1500 scouts and leaders for three meals. It was HARD work. I don't know how our team leaders planned so well. Those boys ate well! They were very thankful as they came through the lines. We had a few wards come help with clean up and many leaders helped with dishes. I don't think I've ever seen so many cookie sheets. My hands and back are still recovering. I knew it would be hard, but I wasn't expecting to feel the spirit like I did. I cried after seeing how happy my son was one night and how much fun he was having. He told me later he didn't need to go to church. He'd gone to a week of church! Wait till your mission kid The next week Kylie and I went to girls' camp. It was like a vacation compared to scout camp. I didn't have to cook all week. I took a few naps and loved being a stake leader; card games at night, raiding the fridge for homemade ice cream, showering when I wanted. Talk about a vacation. :) Ropes course Kylie on the rope swing Cards at night with the ladies.
After camp, I helped Kylie get ready for Europe! We rushed around Monday morning and got her packed. Her dad met us outside of Kennewick and gave her a blessing then off she went with a friend to the pre-camp in Puyallup. It was my bday that day, and our new encampment friends had a post scout camp party. The rest of the kids got to swim and they sang happy bday to me. It was nice. Wednesday, my super friend took me to the movies for my bday and then to dinner later! She's the best! Thursday, the kids and I went to Puyallup to listen to the Washington Ambassador's choir Kylie is in. It was awesome! Such talent throughout the state performed after only two days of learning the music. We took Kylie with us to a hotel and swam all night. Then, Friday morning I took the shuttle with her to the airport and off she flew. She sang today for church services at Wesley's Chapel built in 1777! The rest of Friday, the kids and I went to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. We had a blast. This bike was pretty scary. Dallin tried it first. I think he was braver than Jory. The Space Needle was right behind us. I asked the kids if they wanted to walk around it. They said no because it was right there. The circus building was the most fun for the kids because of this bouncy thing.

The insect house was fun. Yes those are bees. That's a cockroach. YUCK! Cody did not like the Butterfly House.