July

 July ended up being a pretty busy month!  Started out with the 4th, of which I have very few pics to document.  We have a tradition of going to Starvation Reservoir the morning of the 4th.  This year was a randomly cold and windy day.  We spent our time huddled under towels and trying to handle the choppy water from the wind.  The first time we've ever not had a great boating day there.  Poor Kate had to work after we got home.  She got to experience her first not fun job this summer working at the gate at Jordanelle State Park.  I felt bad for her, but also think that every kid needs to experience a not good job so that they can be motivated to go to college.  Sage went to the neighbors and lived her best life with them.  And the rest of us relaxed and watched all the fireworks going off around us that night.  

We also got to go boating with my cousin Season and her kids.  This was monumental because she just got a heart transplant, plus a million other hard health things that she's still dealing with.  We had so much fun with them and were so glad that Season got to come out with us and have some fun.  She's gone through so much lately.  I really admire her for her ability to keep smiling through it all.

And then Jake, Zack, and Sage decided to do one of the weekly races up at Wolf Creek.  Things were going well until Sage wrecked and cut her shin really bad.  We had to take her to get stitches.  Sage does not like needles, so she really didn't like stitches.  But she was very brave.  We learned that shins don't heal well.  Not much blood flow and tight skin that gets stretched.  Here we are in September and it's just barely mostly healed.  Poor girl didn't get to boat for the last 6 weeks of summer.  She finally got to go yesterday.  I'm just glad it healed and hope it stays that way.  And even though it took a bit to heal, I'll take stitches over broken bones any day.

We went boating in the morning on Jake's birthday.  He got to ski on glass.

Sage wanted to eat before we went to the hospital