Alex and the boys went on a backpacking trip to Yosemite in July with some other church guys. They spent 4 days doing 25 miles. They started at Virginia Lakes, hiked up over a pass, and finished at Tuolumne Meadows. On day 2, they hiked extra (13 miles total) to get to day three's campground so they could just hang out the third day. I think they enjoyed that "day off" during the middle of their trip.
It was a pretty brutal summer in July and August as far as the heat. We had several days in the mid-80's and some 90's. I know that's not bad in other places, but it's miserable when you don't have air conditioning in your house. We watched the temperature creep up each day and did our best with fans. It's hard when it doesn't even cool off at night. We tried not to be home as much, spending time at the church buildings or anything other than in our house. We only turned on the oven maybe once or twice in July and August.
Weston did some more driving training and practice this summer. He's getting better. We put the "Student Driver" magnet on for a while, although I think people honked more...
Savannah had some fun hanging out with friends a few times. She decorated Bibles one day and they made a cute video. Grace made us some Mongolian food one night, with food similar to empanadas.
Owen played varsity summer league basketball. He didn't get a lot of time and didn't end up scoring any buckets, so I didn't end up with much for a highlight reel. We were laughing at one of the games when Owen had to guard a guy much taller than him (as seen in the photo below).
