End of June/4th of July

It's been a fun filled five days. Cooper wrapped up his 2 1/2 weeks of Summer Academy.Kids from a bunch of different school districts are selected from their schools to attend. It's an enrichment program for "high potential students"ha-whatever that means. All I know is that he had a blast. A sampling...writing haikus, understanding hieroglyphics, story circles and poetry-his course was a language arts session. Hopefully he's still a "high potential student" next year so he'll be invited back next summer. They have even more cool course offerings as he gets older. It was a pain to get up so early in the summer, but luckily we carpooled with a group of people.We also headed to South Dakota for the 4th of July. Ron had his 20 year high school reunion plus it was an all school reunion so his hometown was flooded with people. Two street dances, a golf tournament, a parade, a picnic, a 4th of July festival, Papa's birthday, and a fireworks show at the casino. Plus, visiting with friends and family. The kids also swam alot and blasted through a ton of fireworks. Cooper seems to be a pyromaniac just like his dad and uncle.Today, the kids are off to YMCA day camp for the week while I'm home cleaning and doing laundry and getting ready for our trip to Louisiana and Florida(11 days away!!)

Off to camp.....