We have been doing so many fun things this summer. I feel like we are tourists in our own town. One thing that has helped us really get out this summer is a fun program put on by Intermountain Live. It is called Play Unplugged. The program gives you a bunch of fun activities to do during the summer that requires you to unplug from technology and electronics and get out and play. After doing each activity, you go to the sponsoring business in town and collect Brag Badges to put on our lanyards. The kids have loved collecting these Brag Tags and ask me each day what tag we can earn that day. We have been collecting about 4 tags a week. Here are some of the things we have done this last month:
First, we when on a family bike ride to the park and had a picnic that the kids packed themselves. We earned the Bike Rider and Picnicker badges for this. It is always fun to ride our bikes.
Next we took a tour of the Cox Honeyland store to earn the Busy Bee tag. We got to see a live beehive and we tried to find the Queen Bee. We also learned how honey was made and processed from the beehives. Then we got to sample all sorts of flavors of honey.
We played with our new friend, London, in her little pool to earn the Sprinkler Chaser tag. The kids love getting wet any time they can and doing it with friends is even more fun.
Another fun tag to earn was the Mile Master:
To earn this one, we had to run or walk a mile. Russell had to train for his physical test for work so we all went to the track and helped him practise running the mile and a half. We did it! The kids felt really good about this accomplishment because it was kind of hard for those little legs. Emily did just fine and ran the whole way.
Of course there was the Car Washer tag:
Like I said before, these kids love getting wet and we love getting our cars washed!
The Paper Pilot tag was one the boys loved. We were able to check out some of the cool airplanes at the Logan Airport.
We even got to look inside some of them. After seeing the planes, we got to fly our paper airplanes:
I don't remember who's plane flew the farthest but I guess it doesn't matter. We just had fun at the airport.
As part of the Volunteer tag, we had to do some service around the house.
The kids thought that helping me grate the cheese was a great service to me. Since I don't really like grating cheese, it was!
Then to really earn our badge, we attended the Cache Volunteer Center Service Celebration Party at the River Hollow park.
While there, we wrote letters to soldiers in the army and told them how grateful we were for their service. The kids all had a great time making their letters and drawing pictures for the military men and women.
We didn't earn a tag for these things but every time we drive up and down the main street in Logan, the kids yell, "Cow!" every time we drive passed one of the decorated Aggie bulls. So we decided that if we are being tourist in our own town, we might as well get a picture of us doing it!
The Book Hunter badge was the one the kids liked the most because they got to meet their heroes at the North Logan Library. We got to meet Elsa, Anna, Captain America, and Spiderman!
Emily was so excited to meet Elsa and Anna because she absolutely loves the movie Frozen. As you can tell she is one happy girl. Elsa and Anna were really nice too. Logan ran up and hugged Elsa too. Colby on the other hand did not want to meet them and refused to be in the picture which is why he is crying.
Then we got to meet Captain America and Spiderman, two of Colby's favorite superheros. These two guys were really funny with the kids. You can't tell from the picture but Colby was happier to see these two. Logan was just mesmerized by Spiderman and kept touching his leg to make sure he was real. He thought it was the coolest thing ever. He did not want to leave Spiderman's side. After meeting our heroes, we played other fun games like Hulk Smash and knocking over Olaf. This was a fun party the library put on.
We love the Hyrum library too. Each week there is a "Make and Take" craft day and we like to go and make the fun craft. This week we decorated masks and another week we made superhero arm bands. It is fun. We earned the Reader badge from the Hyrum Library.
My favorite badge to earn was the Rock Star badge. To get this badge, we took Ukulele lessons at KSM Music store.
The boys mostly just played around on the Ukulele but Emily really got into it and was trying her best to learn the chords the teacher was teaching us. I thought it was really exciting to learn the Ukulele and has me wanting to learn more. Emily said she wants to learn more too.
We went bowling at Logan Lanes for Family Home Evening to earn the King Pin badge:
This was such a fun night. The kids are getting old enough to have fun playing games and they all loved bowling. I was even surprised that Logan could lift the bowling balls! We used the bumpers and ramps for the kids which helped a lot. The boys used the ramp to help them get the ball down the alley. Russell and I were wishing we could use the bumpers on our turn too... I had forgotten how much fun bowling is.
After bowling we went out to eat at Pizza Pie Cafe. Emily had won gift certificates to this place at school so she was constantly asking us when we could go there. Luckily there was a Pizza Pie Cafe in Logan so we finally went there. This was a really good place to eat and we were stuffed by the time we left.
We have been having fun collecting brag badges this month. It has also been nice getting out and exploring the city and being a tourist. We still have quite a few badges to collect so we will be doing more fun things the rest of the summer.
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