The DeMille Family: Summer Fun!

So this summer has been a wild one, just kidding. I've had half a brain this summer with the baby. She is sleeping better now but it's hard having 4 busy kids and 1 not so sleeping baby. Although we've had low expectations I've tried to do a few fun things throughout the summer.

Rick's Dad, Tracy and Emily came to visit us in June. Here we are waiting to see planes take off at the Clow Airport Diner, it never happened but we had fun eating while we waited.

Here is all 6 of our grandparents. We had everyone here for Jaina's blessing. I don't think all 6 of them had been in a room since the wedding,

oh so many years ago.

Our lovely Aunt Kristen was also here for the blessing. Our "take my picture too" kid is always ready. Jaina's blessing will be another post.

Here is Grandma and Grandpa DeMille during their stay in June with Baby Jaina.

Anson and Aaron went to a day camp at the end of June, Kati Kani. It was pirate week and they learned lots of camping skills, did crafts, went fishing, swimming and so much more. Here they are in the last skit of their week.

This year Aaron was on a coach pitched baseball team. He had a great team, the Yankees. We all enjoyed going to the games. They made it all the way to the Championship game. We had Amanda's family here that weekend so between our family, her family and both sets of grandparents, and Isa Aaron had quite the cheering section. Here are a few pictures of the Championship game.

They won the Bolingbrook Championship! Go team!

We also went to Cantigny with Amanda's family. How many Blackhams can you fit on one tank gun!

We had girls/boys cousin swap. Jacob came and watched Star Wars and slept over at our house. Rachel went and watched a girl movie with Sarah at Grandma's house.

We also went to Brunswick Zone with cousins. Here is Anson and Andrew fighting off the bad guys.

Sarah had an amazing influence over Rachel and she actually went on rides!

Cousins Andrew and Nathan loved playing together.

We had a friend get married in the Nauvoo, IL Temple in June. We took advantage of the trip and took everyone down for our first visit there with kids. There is such a good spirit there and the kids are old enough to know Joseph Smith and the important role Nauvoo played in our church. For those who don't know Nauvoo was a town our church founded and built up in the 1840s. After a few short years the Saints were again kicked out but while they were there it was a wonderful place to live. Our church has restored many of the buildings there and you can go and see what it would be like to live there in the 1840s-1850s.

Here is Rachel dressed in pioneer wear.

Here we are watching the band play on the street outside the Red Brick store, their grocery store.

Last year we went park hopping the last day of summer before school started. This year the kids wanted to do the same. For park hopping we just set the timer for 30 minutes at each park and see how many parks we can hit before we are worn out. This means we can hit all those parks we've wanted to try or see again or whatever before school starts and it just too hard. This year the kids continually voted for new parks we had never been too. Jaina wasn't a huge fan but the big kids love it.