What a Summer and Back to School!

“How We Spent Our Summer Vacation” by Jinkee McFadden.

Summer started off with India going to girls camp for the first time. They camped by the Kern river and got to go rafting and do a ropes course. Then we were all off to Oregon for Matt’s Dad’s 80th Birthday Party.

A little video of the event

The first week of August rolled around and Gabe left for the Philippines where he spent a little over two weeks with his Grandparents traveling around the Philippines and going to Singapore. While in the Philippines he got the opportunity to see the biggest cockroach he had ever seen in his life, and while in Singapore he got to explore the largest shopping center he had ever seen in his life. So some BIG firsts for Gabe. During that time India and I took a little girls getaway. First we drove up to Solvang for breakfast then onto Monterey where we did some sightseeing and spent the night. Then continued up to San Francisco where we spent a couple of days Fred and Nora and we also got to see Bree, Chris and little Beau.

Solvang

Monterey Bay

Alcatraz

King Tut Exhibit

The View from the DeYoung Museum

Ghirardelli Square

Chinatown

Then we cut our trip a little short because India got invited to Jonas Brother Concert by our Neighbor Hannah. Here is photo of the girls all dressed up for the concert.

After the vacation it is time for India to gets her Braces!

Then we were off to Utah to pick up Gabe from his trip. Our first stop was a quick overnight stay in St. George. Where we visited the Temple and Brigham Young’s winter home. I had a fig from his tree it was tasty.

Then it was just relaxing for the last couple weeks then back to work for me and a couple weeks later back to school for the kids. And that is how we spent our Summer Vacation.