Kade went to his friend's birthday party. He had a fun time playing at their pool at their country club! Some of these boys are on his soccer team and he's become good friends with them.
A few weeks later, Damon invited Kade to go to his cabin in Woodland. Kade got spoiled all weekend!
Swiss Days weekend is looking different every year now as everyone gets older. It was a crazy busy weekend. James guest played with an Avalanche team in the Mayor's Cup. It was held at the Regional Athletic Complex in North Salt Lake. He had a game Friday afternoon after racing that morning. His team won! Then Marshall and James came to Midway for Swiss Days. I took everyone else to Swiss Days after they got home from school. London spent the weekend with us because her family was in Nashville. It rained on the drive to Midway so when we got to Midway everything was very wet. It rained so much that the ground was muddy at Swiss Days. It was so crazy! It's rained at Swiss Days in previous years but it didn't lead to mud. This was just crazy! We all had our new school shoes on and they are white. I walked so carefully the whole time and kept the white part of my shoes clean. I cleaned everyone's muddy shoes at the end of the night.
Tag's tooth was growing sideways. He had oral surgery and a bracket was placed on the tooth and a chain attached. The chain was then attached to a bracket on a different tooth and a rubber band is helping pull the tooth in the correct location and direction.
James raced in the Timpanogos Invitational. In the past years they've raced in the after school race. This year he raced in the morning race. That made it so nice for holiday weekend! He didn't do as well this race. His time was 16:04. He was 15th so it was still really good but he wasn't as happy with his race. I tried to point out all of the good things. He was still 2nd on his team, he was fast than most of the other racers there, and he is still very fast even if it wasn't the time he wanted.
James decided he didn't want to play club soccer and instead form a AA team and just have a chill season. So he formed a team. Marshall agreed to be the coach or responsible adult. They named their team Akatsuki and designed their jerseys. They had their first game and won!
We celebrated August Birthdays with my family. We had meatball subs. Mmmm! Dessert was ninja turtle cake. Double Mmmm! It was good eating! It was fun seeing everyone. It's always not enough time. I can't wait until we have early church and can have longer time with family on Sundays.
I had two weeks off in between summer and fall semesters. I packed my weeks full of projects, cleaning, and errands. I started off with extending the sidewalk to the street with pavers. I've always wanted the sidewalk to extend. It is a lot of money for a tiny piece of cement. Pavers were in the budget.
Since it is James's senior year, each race gets it's own post. He is one speedy guy! His first race was in Spanish Fork. UIAAA Invitational is the name of the race. It was held at the Spanish Fork Complex. We had soccer games so Grandpa and Grandma Lowry went to the race. Unfortunately they didn't get any pictures. James had a great race! James took 8th place in the boys varsity 5k. The top ten got a medal so he got a medal! His time was 15:49.
While Marshall, James and friends were camping, Sienna had a cousin sleepover. London and Scarlet joined us for a fun night and morning. They had fun playing dress up and pretend.
James turned 17 on the first day of school. What a rough day for a birthday. We kind of had to split his birthday into two days and had his party on the weekend. We had German pancakes for his birthday breakfast. He got to open his presents which were long awaited. Lynnlee had his present wrapped for almost a month! He went to school and then had cross country.
The first day of school and James's birthday happened on the same day this year. This is a first. School used to start the third week of August but it keeps getting earlier and earlier. The next post will be about James's birthday.
We were so lucky to get to use Aunt Kathy's extra tickets to the Utah Symphony at Deer Valley! It even included a VIP dinner. Mmmm! We got there around 6:00 and ate dinner in the lodge. The food was so yummy and there were plenty of gluten free items so I filled up and felt good. We went out to our seats around 7:20. We were on the third row right in the center. It was so awesome! It felt so intimate. The band who performed with the symphony was a Journey Tribute band so they performed songs by Journey. It was perfect because I went to a Journey concert in high school and I own lots of Journey CDs. I loved all of the music! They waited to play Don't Stop Believing until the 2nd encore!
