A few final summer pics from my phone

We are definitely well into the swing of school and finished celebrating birthdays, but I wanted to remember a few more highlights from our summer.

My mom, sister and I took the kids to a Kids Bop concert at the end of July. Kids Bop is a group of tweenagers that sing music from contemporary artists but make some of the words kid friendly. All our kids love to listen and dance to Kids Bop on Pandora so we thought they would love the concert. I'm not sure I would say they loved it, but they did really like it. I think it was all a little overwhelming for our sheltered little ones. No one moved from their seats except Emily. It was a fun night though and I think the kids enjoyed trying something new.

During one of the last weeks of the summer my friend Kelly and I decided to take a trip to Fairfield  to check out the Jelly Belly factory and Jump Highway. I've always wanted to go to the factory and after reading a friends blog about Jump Highway we figured that would be a perfect combination to try with our kids too. We loaded em up on sugar at the Jelly Belly factory and then let them jump for two hours...it was perfect!

While the factory was educational and interesting for us moms I think the kids hilight was definitely the wall to wall trampolines and foam pits at Jump Highway. We will need to make our way back here again sometime!

This summer our library had a program where the kids could read 10 books and get two free tickets to a local minor league baseball team. All our kids did this so we were able to enjoy an evening of free baseball! Thanks for loving reading kiddos!

The next weekend Kevin and I were able to join our friends at a SF Giants game. It was my first time in their stadium and we had a blast.

Morgan got to celebrate her birthday at the end of the first full week of school. She chose to have a pj party without the sleepover. So her friends were invited to come over in their pj's for pizza and a movie and plenty of snacks too. It was a really fun birthday party with a lot of sweet girls.

I made another Barbie cake for Morgan. The last one I made was when she turned 3.

The final baseball game was to see the A's play. We left the girls at home for a sleepover with Annika and Audrey and had a fun night with the boys. They both pooped out by the 8th inning though....

This year we managed to make it out to see the last few balloons take off at the balloon festival. It is always a fun sight to see, but you never know if it's truly worth it to wake up crazy early on a Saturday. This year Ethan happened to be having a sleepover the night before so we didn't wake anyone up, but planned on going if they did wake up early. It was fun to see different friends from school. One of these years I'd love to make it to see the launch from start to finish.