Goodbye Summer 2010!

We have had a very nice, long extended Summer.  All of September was very warm....sometimes close to 100 degrees.  It has been nice.   

So here's a tribute to Summer 2010 ...goodbye..... parting is such sweet sorrow....

I will miss the flowers.....

And those beautiful summer evenings.... when the kids in the neighborhood would play and play...  

I will remember Cub scout Day Camps..... and all that "man training" going on....

We won't forget the joy of climbing trees....

Or lazy Summer afternoons when boys are free to create and imagine.....  Like these two boys who created their own weapons..and then had very spirited fights...and set up forts....    

And oooh the joy of running around shirtless and barefoot in the warm summer air!

Hanging out with neighborhood friends morning, noon and night.... 

And stealing Mom's camera and taking random pictures with friends you hang out with morning, noon and night...

We won't forget the homemade waterslide made with a  ladder, particle board and a tarp or two.   Oooh the fun!

And more random pictures....taken with Mom's camera ...just for fun...

Oh the magic of summer days when you are 8, 9, 10 and 11!  There's is a secret world.....just like I remember.   Forts, games, anything they can imagine.  Lemonade stands, trips on their bikes to the grocery store to buy candy...with their own money!!   Few things make me happier than seeing my children experience the magic of childhood...  They have their own plans, own agenda, and played all day until they were exhausted!

 They played with water in the dirt, created dams and tunnels. And when a thunderstorm would roll in...it was pure excitement!  These kids would run out in the rain and scream in delight at the thunder!  Oh the magic!  

I also want to remember:

• Nightgames!  Played until as late as we would let them!  
• Trips to the Pool...  How much these boys love to swim!
• The endlesslessness of remodeling...we remodeled our three bathrooms this past summer.....   How torn apart the house was for about a month...it was crazy!
• Steve was gone for more than a month between scout camp, the National Jamboree and the 50 miler hike. I didn't like this too much....
• Jon and Joseph went with their Dad and a bunch of Uncles and Cousins on the National Boy Scout Jamboree (100th Anniversary of Boy Scouts...very cool)  
• Steve took a group of young men including Jon, Joseph and Eric up Kings Peak-50 miles hike.  
• Our splendid family reunion and send off of Mom and Dad on their mission to the Washington DC Temple Visitors Center
• A wonderful day trip with Barb and family up to "the Weber" their cabin up in the mountains in an area I had never been to...which is soo beautiful. It was a really great day!   

So goodbye Summer 2010.....   All good things must come to an end.... 

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