Apple Coding Camp

A friend of ours told us about these great summer camps that the local Apple Store puts on for kids. They're free of charge, you just have to catch the opening day / time and quickly register to grab a spot. Connor LOVES all things computers and programming, so we signed him up for a week long camp of coding fun. They worked on programming small robots to work on command from their iPads, then they got to race each other in the maze taped out on the floor ...

Summer Lacrosse

Not particularly happy to be playing lacrosse on a hot summer day, but happy when I told him we could go get some Thai food after we were finished!

Skating

Holiday World

Our annual summer trip to Holiday World ... we stay at Santa's Cottages, which the boys love. We bring along Grammy, Pappy and Aunt Kelly for the trip. There are lots of lakes to fish in (Xander and Connor were big fans of the fishing), there's an outdoor swimming pool, a playground, and every cabin has it's own grill so we can have a home-cooked meal instead of having to drive to find food!

Here are Xander, Connor and Josh doing some afternoon fishing (Sawyer and Aunt Kelly were at the pool) ...



Xander and Josh are still fishing. Sawyer is between them, throwing fish food to watch them swarm. Connor has headed back inside to see what's on television (of course).



And that's all the pictures. We spend the first day relaxing at the cabin. We spend the second day at the park riding roller coasters and visiting the water park. We eat junk food like pizza and french fries and chicken fingers, we drink lots of sports drinks (they offer those and sodas free throughout the park), and we end the day a little sunburned, a lot exhausted, and ready to head back home to our own beds!

Basketball Camp

Xander is our natural-born athlete, lefty and all. He LOVES sports. And he excels at just about everything he tries. He has a competitive streak a mile wide, loves to win and lives for the applause and cheers of the audience and his teammates.

This summer, we had the opportunity to let him participate in an adaptive basketball camp at a local horse farm. He LOVED every minute of it ...

(Well, as long as he made the basket ...)





He especially loved music therapy day ...



He seriously tried to steal the guitar ...



Sawyer was less impressed when he had to come watch a few days ...





Fast break ...



He loved the day we got to tour the horse farm ...



Standing with the father of the triple crown winner ...



Showing off his tie-dye uniform shirt from a craft project earlier in the week ...



Standing (or sitting) front and center for the group picture ...



Breakaway score ...



With one of his favorite buddies, Miss A, after the game ...