Golf Camp!!

This last week Preston had golf camp up at the Sky Mountain golf course here in Hurricane.  It was a 3 day camp and Preston really wish it went longer.  They started on Tuesday and went from 8-10.  He loves golf camp, because of course at the end of the camp they have a competition on a few things.  First off they did a chipping competition, then putting, and then they finish it off with a driving competition.  He loves to putt, so that was what he had his heart set on winning.  I came a little early to watch the end of it.  Preston saw me and ran over to let me know he had won his putting competition and won a new hat.  He was so excited I don't even think he cared about anything else.  He was sad for the camp to end, but excited to find out they gave them a free 5 rounds of golf punch pass with cart for him and an adult.  So Dean and Preston headed out early Saturday morning and fit in 9 holes.  They said they had a lot of fun, and I'm glad they got to do it together.

Florida Cousins

While we had the Monson cousins here tell Thursday morning.  We had my Brother and his family come in from Florida Wednesday night for a week.  We had Summer games that first weekend, but we still fit in as much family time as we could.  Thursday we swam, and then went to a Play at the Rattlin D playhouse.  It was a spoof  on Les Miserables.  It was quiet funny.  We went to one at Christmas that we all loved, so it was good to go back and watch another one of their plays.  They serve you dinner before the show, so it's a nice comfortable environment.  The next day was another swim day, and more soccer games for us plus a movie night.  Saturday we ended up going to the movies…some of us went to "How to Train your Dragon 2".  While other's went to Maleficent. Both got 2 thumbs up from both parties.  We then of course came back and did more swimming.  Sunday was Father's day so the women cooked the men BBQ ribs for Sunday dinner.  We ended up going to Doing the Children's Museum one day as well.  It was fun to see them for the little time they were here.  I even think Brecken warmed up to them toward the end (ha ha). We sure do miss them a lot.  They left Wednesday afternoon to head home.

Summer Games

 Preston did the Summer Games again this year.  He played for his own U10 team then they asked him to play up with the U11 team as well.  So between the two teams we had 9 games in 4 days.  We started off Wednesday night with one game.  Followed by 3 more Thursday, followed by 3 more Friday.  Preston is a great player and has played a lot of defense with last year, because we realized this year we need a more defensive team.  Well the last couple of games at the summer games, coach let him go back up to forward, and he scored.  He was so excited.  We then Finished it off Saturday morning with 2 back to back games for bronze medals for both teams.  We ended up not getting a medal with either team, but Preston had a blast and enjoyed himself.  The weather was actually really pleasant as well.  So it was a lot of back and forth this last week, but so fun to see him enjoying playing.

Monson cousin Retreat

We just finished up with our Monson "Cousin Camp", as Grandma Monson calls it.  We had a lot of fun with the family.  We of course started it off with a dinner at the Pizza Factory Monday night when they arrived.  We barely fit up in there big banquet room we almost needed another row of tables.  They kids had a blast seeing each other again, and the talking didn't stop even when the food came.  We then headed home to meet up with them the next morning.  We started Tuesday off with a free movie in hurricane.  We watched Epic and all the kids did great Brecken even made it through for the most part.  After the movie we headed over to swim at our house or (grandpa and Grandma Eves) house.  We ate lunch and swam the day away.  I think we finally pulled kids out of the water and packed back up around 5.  They all get along so well,  and it was a beautiful day to swim.  We then met up with them Wednesday morning for pictures, and hiking on the red rocks.  The kids are old enough now they really love to hike and go exploring, we lasted a lot longer there then I thought we would.  After hiking we did a little craft Aunt Heidi had brought, and then onto the Children's Museum where we spent a couple hours.  After that we had to head home because we had the start of the Summer Games for Preston, that night.  They all went to see Allie in Annie Jr.  Since we had went the week before we headed up to support Preston in his first game.  We missed them Thursday morning because of Soccer…but they headed home Thursday morning anyway.  We sure love when they visit and enjoyed what time we did get to see them.