Feisty Kaelyn: Summers End

Well the swimming pools are closed and the summer has officially come to an end. We weren't too sad about it though because we did lots of fun things and Jaymi and Kaelyn were excited to get back to school. Here is what we were up to our last month of summer vacation. Get ready for a picture overload.

Bryn sporting her super cute pigtails.

We attended the International Days they do here in our city. We loved watching the Chinese dancers.

Love when we catch Bryn smiling for a picture. Her smile is all teeth.

Family hike around Silver Lake.

If you were wondering like I was, "Are helmets really necessary for this?", yep they were. Seconds later Bryn was bucked off. Safety first.

Dance party at our good friends place. They were so nice to let the girls use their master bedroom as a dance studio.

Jaymi finished off the last two weeks of summer taking special needs swim lessons. They were awesome and we can't wait to do them again. It was the same price and regular swim lessons and she had a teacher all to herself. She made so much progress, she loves to swim.

Kaelyn and Bryn liked getting out of the house too and crawling and climbing all over the place.

Gotta love these three kid shopping carts. They were thinking of our family when they designed them.

Swimming at the reservoir with our good friends. Jaymi and Mia swam out quite a ways, I was afraid I was going to have to get in and go bring them back, but luckily they found their way back on their own.

Kaelyn trying to stay cool under the umbrella.

Jaymi's back to school night. She sits next to her buddy Mia and in front of her other buddy Justin.

Jaymi and I ran in the Color Run with our buddy Erin, Ellie's mom. She was in town from Minnesota and we were privileged to get to hangout for the day.

Jaymi's first ride on the Trax train. She loved it and keeps asking to ride on it again.

To say Jaymi loved the Color Run would be an understatement. She had so much fun dancing and throwing the powder at the finish line. We might have to make it a family tradition and take her sisters next time.

We went to an awesome splash park with our friends the Mcknights. The girls had so much fun playing in the water on such a hot day.

I swear Bryn is going to be our little gymnast. She loves swinging on everything. I want to sign her up for the gym in our neighborhood but its pretty pricey. We'll have to see.

Kaelyn kept climbing up on this rock and begging the lady in the yellow shirt to hold her.

Bryn enjoying some shade in the tube.

Little miss bravery climbing the ropes. Its amazing to see how far her gross motor skills have come since she came home. Those first few weeks she couldn't even climb a small ladder, look at her now!

Bryn had to join in on the action.

When Jaymi gets home she is so excited to open her backpack and show us what she did that day. This is her giving Kaelyn the scoop.

Jaymi getting her first post-adoption haircut by our friend Holly. She wasn't so sure about the wash.

She sat so still for the whole thing. I was so proud of her.

The girls hanging out at mom's volleyball match.

Our friends the Murray's invited us to attend a golf tournament luncheon where they were raising money for an orphan with Down syndrome. Jaymi got to walk out and say hi to the crowd and show them an example of a little girl that got a second chance at life. We had fun hanging out with Ridge and Nash riding around in the golf cart.

Go here to learn more about the orphan they are raising money for. They are only about $1,000 short of reaching their goal. Lets help them out. Every little bit helps!