Where Has The Summer Gone?

I can't believe summer is almost over. It seemed to just fly by this year. We had a very busy and fun summer!
RECAP~
The day after the kids got out of school we went to Disneyland for a week. We bought annual passes last year that were going to expire so we squeezed in one more trip before they did. It is always so much fun, we go with family and always have a good time. The new Toy Story ride was not open yet, so we will be planning a trip again soon! Me and Darrin also got to celebrate our 13 year wedding anniversary in Disneyland, how fun is that? Anyways he is so amazing and I'm so lucky to be married to him! 3 days after we got back from Disneyland it was time for me and Madi to head to girls camp! It was a little stressful getting ready in 3 days while still unpacking and doing laundry from the Disneyland trip, but I managed without to much stress. Girls camp was such a great experience. This was my second year going and Madi's first. We experienced so many things together. The weather didn't really corporate we had everything from snow {all day} to hot sunny sunburned faces. The Young Women in our ward are amazing, and I was grateful to have the opportunity to go to girls camp with them! As far as the holidays go, we went with Darrin's family camping over the fourth. I actually had a really good time, and the kids just loved it! For the 24th we spent that with my side of the family, we went to my brothers house for dinner and fire works. He smoked a pork butt,and made his own barbecue sauce. It was sooo good, we even got Kaiden to try it and he liked it to! We have been to many movies, swimming, Thanksgiving Point Gardens, barbecues, camping, sleepovers, piano lessons, dance, the carnival, Kaiden's first pinewood derby, Lagoon, and many other things to keep the kids busy during the summer. I'm sad that it is almost over, but we have so many fun things coming up. I can't wait to finally be back on a decent schedule, waking up early and the kids going to bed at a normal time. It will also be nice to have them doing their chores regularly, lunch at lunch time instead of at 2:00, and even having dinner on time instead of at 7:00 or 8:00, and I'm sure my family is looking forward to me finally cooking again! Madi will be starting her first year of Junior High! {can you believe it?} Kaiden will be going into 3rd grade and my little girl will be starting Kindergarten! I can't believe how quickly time flies. Kaiden has started soccer again and Abby starts this week. Madi will be starting volleyball sometime within the next few weeks she is so excited. Kaiden and Madi are still taking piano lessons, and Abby is looking forward to her dance recital next week, and can't wait to start a new dance class this fall. Our good friends the Petersons have invited us to go to Lake Powell in October. We are really looking forward to this, the kids have never been, and I haven't been since I was a kid. They have also invited us to take a trip to New York with them this spring, and can I tell you how excited Darrin is for this! It has always been a dream of his to go, I'm so glad he finally gets the chance. We also want to try and plan a trip to Disney World a year from this November, so I'm sad that we probably wont go back to Disneyland until after that, but I'm looking forward to all the fun things to come! So our summer has just flown by, we still have a week or so, and we are hoping to plan some more fun things before it's back to the grind. Our wards Youth Conference is this week and I get to go, Madi has to be 14 so she will have to wait a while before she can go. We also want to go back to Lagoon {Hooray for Bounce Back!} We will have to see if we will have the time. And of course there is so much school shopping to do! I hope you all had a great summer!