Last Week of Summer

This past week was the last week of our summer break! Grami came to visit, Emma went to Youth Conference and Sydney went to Egypt???

At the Children's Museum this month there is an exhibit called "Take Me There: Egypt." The exhibit is really cool, it shows you all about what life is like in Egypt and it looks like you are really there! Grami was able to come with us to the Children's Museum on Wednesday and we had a ton of fun! (partly because Mom was nice enough to take the boys around so that the rest of us could spend time looking at the exhibits:) The Children's Museum was awesome! But wait I am getting ahead of myself..... let's start back with Monday night....



On Monday, after registering everyone for school, we went to the zoo with Grami! We saw the dolphin show (one of our favorite things about the zoo) and that was almost all we had time to do before the zoo closed :)After our visit to the zoo we went on a lovely walk down the canal. Photo Op at the Mammoth statue! Each of us sat on this Woolly Mammoth statue on the Canal.... we don't even really know why.
Then after our walk on the canal we went to the Indianapolis Central Library. There is a great view of the city from the top floor of the library. The library also has the coolest kid's section complete with the comfiest egg shaped chairs in the world! Monday night was pretty much jam packed with fun!

On Tuesday it rained and rained and rained! We spent most of the day indoors reading books and teaching Grami to play chess :) After it finished raining we went to Wal-Mart and bought school supplies.


Wednesday of course we went to the Children's Museum! We sort of had to rush out of there though so that Dad could go to Institute. I (Emma) was able to take a friend (Shantelle) with me to Institute with my dad.

Thursday was the time to go shoe shopping.... but as shopping always goes we came back from the store and none of the shoes we had purchased for Simon fit his feet.... another trip to the shoe store on Saturday :)

After shopping I had the chance to go to my stake's Youth Conference! I had so much fun! Thursday there was a dance at the church and that night we stayed at member's homes in the area. On Friday we spent the day doing a big service project. We painted a barn and cabins at a local Girl's Scout Campground. Finally on Saturday we had testimony meeting at the church and we went home!

Everyone at home still had a good time without me though!

These are pictures of the boys and their "disguises" for their spy game!

Saturday was my birthday! Grami treated our family to a trip to the Cheesecake Factory! Thank you Grami! I recieved some $$$ money from Grandma Mae and Jan, Grami and Jeff and Marianne for my birthday. My mom bought me some Bath and Body Works body spray, lotion, and shower gel! The rest of the night we spent hanging out at our house reading the book "Weird Indiana" a gift from our friends the Tilleys.


Now here it is the last day of summer, my dad's birthday, Grami has gone back to Salt Lake and we are preparing for school tomorrow. We will miss our summer break but the last week of summer 2009 was awesome!