I hate to condense our summertime fun into one blog post, but I have so many photos that I want to share, and very little time to catch up on my blog. Each activity, has been equally as fun and I have really enjoyed my free time with the girls so far this summer!
SWIMMING
We are so excited to be living in our new neighborhood, only blocks away from Kings Point Pool. It's so nice to have the option to cool off as needed or to spend dinnertime at the pool enjoying the company of the other members. Nate and Dan have enjoyed numerous Sunday evenings playing sand volleyball while the girls swim and I...well, I like to just kick-back.
Menchie's at the pool!
Elizabeth has made strides in her swimming skills this summer. Her goal is to swim well enough to jump off of the diving board by the end of the summer. Hopefully we can have one of the lifeguards give her a couple of swimming lessons in the next few weeks.
There are only a handful of weeks until the pool closes over Labor Day weekend. I know that we will enjoy the pool to its fullest until then.
PAINTING
Once in a while, we take a break from painting walls and paint canvasses instead!
Abigail's art is typically abstract...
...while Elizabeth's is more thoughtful.
Another example of how our girls are so very different from one another.
CENTENNIAL PARK
On one very hot, summer day, we decided to venture out to Centennial Park to try something new. Nate's company did the electrical at the park and Nate is currently running another job at the same site. Therefor, we packed lunch to bring to Dad and played at the water park while we were there.
I had heard about Centennial Park but could never have expected what we found there! People, TONS AND TONS OF PEOPLE. We had fun, but it was overwhelming at times.
This monkey-like jungle gym was Elizabeth's heaven on Earth! She could have spent the entire day playing here if I would have allowed it.
The playgrounds were lots of fun for Abigail too.
Tightropes.
Climbing walls.
And endless water fun!
We took a break at sat down to eat our sandwiches with Nate. When a family decided to put up a VERY LARGE tent/umbrella thing right in between us and the water-fun, I decided it was time to go. It was a fun experience, but it's not likely that we will be reenacting our adventures until the kids are a little bigger.
GOLF
Sadly, we haven't had a lot of time this summer to golf as much as we would have liked to. Nate and I enjoy bringing the kids out to the Par 3 but have only had the opportunity to do so once so far this summer.
They enjoyed it and we hope to his the links again very soon.
However, we did get the opportunity to hit the put-put course. I asked Elizabeth is she would like to go and play put-put golf and she asked, "What is put-put golf." That answered my question and we packed up and went over to Colorado Journey. Nate isn't a huge fan of put-put so this was a good opportunity for me to take the girls.
Elizabeth was already skilled with a putter, so she hit the course running.
Abigail needed a little lesson! I just wanted her to have fun, rather than getting frustrated, so we allowed her to utilize her shovel-like golf stance and play the course in as many strokes as she needed. She had fun with her purple ball and pink putter.
Colorado Journey has holes that resemble certain places throughout Colorado. Dinosaur ridge was our favorite with the replicated fossils.
Ah...shade! It was HOT! 95 degrees hot. So, we rushed through the 18 holes in order to get a drink of water.
We found more shade at the Eisenhower tunnel hole.
Looking back through photos, we really have had a wonderful summer so far. Our Summertime Fun agenda still holds adventures to Pirates Cove, the mountains and the zoo before school starts at the end of August.
