June Summer Activities

It's that time of year again!  We just love our Escuelita Summer activities!!!   Here's what we did this month.

 Week One we went to Neptune Park in Saratoga Springs!  This is such a fun unique park!  The kids had a blast.

Climbing the Pyramid!

Xochitl's girls made it all the way to the top!

Week two we went Bowling at Jack and Jill lanes in Lehi.  This one is one of my kids favorite activities.  They had a blast as always, but I forgot to take pictures.  We love this activity because we get in at a pre-school rate and it is pretty cheap!

Week 3 we used our Pass of all Passes and went to Hollywood Connection for a few hours and then headed up the road to the Sweets Candy Factory for a tour!  Super fun day!

Benjamin's favorite ride is the Roller Coaster... of course!

At the Candy Factory

Week four we had a tour of Krispy Creme Doughnuts and then everyone headed down the road to Nielson Grove Park.  We headed home to pack for our trip to El Paso.  But we had fun even though it was a quick activity.  I forgot my camera again!  But here's a pic Yadira took with her phone!

Lagoon!

We took the kids to Lagoon!  We did bounce back so we got to go twice!  The second time we took Jairo with us, but I forgot to take pictures that day... we were having too much fun!  One thing that was really fun was that Benjamin was tall enough to go on a lot of big rides like the Wooden Roller Coaster, and the Spider, and Wild Mouse, and even Wicked!  He loved all of them!  Here are some highlights from our first day at Lagoon. 

We found some friends while we were there!  Here are the girls with Abby's friend and her cousin!

Aquarium

Today I took the kids to the Aquarium.  We hadn't been in about a year and the kids had been asking to go.  Yadira had been wanting to go as well, so we made a day of it.  My friend Kim came as well.  It was a fun day!  I did not get a whole lot of pictures, but here are a few.  It was especially fun taking Isabel, she just loved seeing all the fish!

 

These came out a bit fuzzy, but the girls got a huge kick out of seeing the River otters!  Isabel thought they were dogs.  They were fun to watch!

Gotta take a picture in the boat!... Every  time.

The Sting rays got too big, so they went into the shark tank and now they have new baby sting rays!

Family Pictures

Benjamin is 6!!

I can't believe my little guy is 6! Has it really been 6 years??!!  I just love our Boy!  He is smart, fun, kind, loving and so patient!  Hi is a mini Isaac.  He loves sports, especially Basketball.  He is so good at math and likes to read.  He is determined and works at things until he gets it right.  He is a thinker and figures things out and he loves his little sisters and is always looking out for them and helping them and even when Abby hits him, he never hits her back.  He's just a good boy.  What more could I ask for?  I am so lucky that he is in our family and I am his mom!  I love you Benji!

So even though you are used to seeing the posts with the big extravagant parties.  This year we are starting a new tradition.  The every other year friend party.  One year family only, the next year a friend party.  It is just getting to be to much for me.  So Benjamin had a family only party.  He did get to invite Aaron, but the Budd Family is family to us anyway.  I loved the Family only party!  It was so relaxed!  I could get used to this.  I think I was starting to get Birthday Party burn-out.  So he wanted a Cars 2 theme.  I got a banner, a table cloth, a pinata, & made him a cool cake.  That was it!... Awesome!  We fed the family lunch, broke the Pinata with his cousins, had cake & icecream, and at the end he wanted to have a water balloon/water gun fight.  So we did that at the end and he was a happy camper!  Then we all went swimming at our pool.  He got a few gifts (not a ton of toys that I don't even know what to do with) including a new bike from mom and dad.  Super fun day!

I thought the cake turned out good!  It was a simple one for me.  Two different size round cakes, black frosting for the road, checkered flags printed off my computer and stuck on tooth picks, and then I just stuck on his toy cars.

Another Angle

Bought a Cars Pinata from the Mexican Store

With all the kids/cousins

Breaking the Pinata

Blowing out is #6 candle!