We began with celebrating a magnificent life! Nana's memorial was beautiful! We had a nice drive up to Kenwood where we got to spend time setting up for the party and hanging out with close family. The Marty's, the Kyle's, Heather, Erik, Brittany, and us headed to Doran Beach for a day. It was a great day full of wonderful memories! After heading back to Kenwood we finished prepping and were ready to welcome many friends and family for a wonderful party with good food, laughter, and more stories about how many lives Dawn had influenced in such great ways!
After heading back home Cienna got to go to a movie and lunch with her previous teacher and a great friend who had chosen Cienna after winning the day at the end of the school year. While Cienna was off, Mommy and Kaylee spent time together going bowling and winning prizes in an arcade. That Friday we went to see an art gallery of all the work the girls have been doing during the summer at camp.
Then we spent some time with friends at Rocketship Park, had a summer pool party at the Chavez house, and went to Dana's brothers house in Orange County for a Sklenicka baby shower! The arrival is quickly approaching.
We had a family breakfast out before our first of many soccer practices this fall. Kaylee's team was up first and Mommy and Mac get to coach.
The girls got an in home hair cut before we all got to enjoy the rehearsal dinner in Santa Monica with Uncle B and Stephanie's families. The next day was the wedding, so Daddy headed off after soccer to help Uncle B prepare. Mommy took Kaylee to a small horseback riding and pizza Birthday Party for Blake, and Cienna got to hang out with Kyra again at the Children's Museum of Art and a Farmers Market lunch.
Mommy took an Uber to meet Daddy for the wedding and the girls stayed at the Snow's for a short while till the Natal's came to watch them for the evening. The girls were spoiled with dinner at Islands and time with the Natal's as Mommy and Daddy got an evening to spend celebrating Brandon and Stephanie.
We loved our time with the Natal's before they headed off for the rest of their vacation in San Diego. They even somehow made it through a night of an all cousin sleep over in the same room!
Then the second soccer practice happened, this time it was for Cienna's team, and guess what, Mommy and Mac get to coach! There happened to not be enough coaches for the U10 league, so of course we decided to volunteer for that too.
Mommy got a night to go to see her once a decade : ) movie, "Bad Mom's" with friends after a gymnastics night. That weekend she also did her U8 and U10 soccer coach training. Afterwards the family went over to the beach to an amazing sand sculpture contest along with the accompanying art and music festival. We finished off the day by going to watch Ricky play Dopey in the Snow White children's play.
A great trip with friends at the tide pools finding crabs, fish, and other sea creatures concluded the month before we head off to our last camping trip of the year.
Cienna's favorite part about Whaley Summer Camp has been the theater acting rotation. She found that being more coordinated in general makes soccer easier, loved hanging out with Ms. Ahrens away from school and can't wait for school to start next year. She is finishing up her math book that Ms. Ahrens gave her as a challenge for summer break. She found out at her last orthodontist appointment that she will be getting off her braces after this first phase at the next appointment in the end of September.
Kaylee is again the youngest on her soccer team, but it's hard to tell since she is so fast and strong. She had an amazing first time horseback riding. She got the spunkiest horse named "Dollar" which was perfect for the spunkiest girl. It kept kicking and jumping. She just went along with it and held on! She has been working a lot on reading and looking forward to first grade. She continues to love helping out and making others happy when she can, as well as pushing red buttons whenever possible : )
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