June 4 – Raine got new glasses; and she is actually going to wear them now.

June 4 – swimming at LifeTime

July 1 – Carter picked a clown nose as his prize for the library reading program.

July 7 – Raine worked on her rollerskating a lot this summer.

July 24 – Carter “helped” me make bread to eat with the homemade strawberry jam that Raine made.

July 27 – Our nanny didn’t work out and the kids ended up having to come to work with me because I didn’t have a backup.

July 29 – Library reading program end of summer party

Raine in the petting zoo.

Raine riding a horse.

Carter sliding down the water slide.

Carter and Raine both picked a clown nose as one of their prizes.

August 8 – Grandma and Grandpa Anderson left to serve a mission Sao Paulo, Brazil. Their flight had a layover at DFW so we went to see them for an hour.

August 18 – We helped assemble lunches for the “Feed Our Kids” summer lunch program. Afterward, we walked across the street to Olympic swimmer Katie Meili’s house to plant some flags on which we had written words of encouragement. Katie won bronze in the 100m breast stroke and gold on the 400m medley relay at the Rio games.

August 30 – Raine begged us all summer to go climbing with her at LifeTime so she could show us how well she was doing. We finally made a family trip to the climbing wall before the kids’ and my memberships expired.

Raine climbing her favorite wall. She made it to the top in no time.

Carter reluctantly climbed the easy wall.

Raine worked at this wall for a while and made it higher than she has ever gone before.

Carter preferred to shoot hoops.

September 10 – We went to an FC Dallas professional soccer game.

Dallas lost to Colorado, but it was a really fun game to watch.