Pioneer Trek - July 23 thru 25

Kaitlyn and Emma

The whole group!

Kaitlyn's Pioneer Family

The young women from our ward going on trek.

Robotics Academy Family Field Trip - July 22

Riding in style in a chartered bus.

The whole group of students and teachers.

Gary, Jacob, Andrew and Andrew

The "Gene Pool"

Beautiful grounds

Endeavor Space Shuttle

Great group of boys and little sister!

Aquarium you can walk through.

Cantilevered way to pick up a truck.

Riding home on the bus.

Fell asleep eating his 2nd dinner.

Too tired to move.

Andrew's robotics academy held at Pitzer College sponsored a field trip to Cal Tech's campus and the Science Center.  It was really neat that the whole family was able to attend.  The walking tour of Cal Tech's campus was very interesting.   We got to see where they hold many summer courses for kids and teens.  I had no idea that great minds like Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking taught and lectured there.  Then we went on to the Science Center, where we saw an IMAX movie of the Hubble Space Telescope.  We also saw the Endeavor Space Shuttle and many other displays.  It was an all day trip and as you can see, Andrew crashed that night.

Haircut - July 16

A lady in my ward knew a girl in the singles ward who was needing someone to cut an A-line bob haircut for a job interview.  I volunteered and got a free haircut!  It was about time, since my last haircut was last August!  This is also the official first "selfie" for me!  :)

Band Class Learning Jazz Music - July 13 thru 17 (Jump off High Dive - July 17)

Ella's musical group

The girls coordinated wearing Star Wars shirts

Everyone playing a final song together "Watermelon Man"

The whole group

Trying to be silly

The girls stopped at In N' Out for dinner after the temple. 

Andrew jumped off the high dive!

Robotics Course - July 13 - July 24

Robotics Course group picture.

Buddies from school

One of Andrew's buddies from school had a connection to this amazing program offered this summer at Pitzer College in Claremont.  He gets to learn how to program and build robots.  They are teaching the fundamentals of mechanics, technology, engineering and mathematics.  He is so excited to bring dad's laptop to class and learn how to program a robot to do various things.  There was a guest speaker the first day, Walter Martinez who has competed on Battlebots 8 times.  He has also done work on the Transformer movie and many commercials and t.v. shows.  It was really interested in hear what he had to say about the future of robots.

Working on programming their robot.

Andrew and Andrew

The robot Andrew's team built

Andrew's team won first place in the robotics competition on the last day!  

Andrew also won second place in the "most improved" category out of all the students who took the course!

Dancin Dayz - July 10 - 12

Out in Rancho Mirage for a dance competition

These girls have been best friends since they first met in 4th grade

Late night Mexican food with live entertainment (not including what our own kids created).

The other table with the rest of us.

Stopping by a local 7/11 for free slurpee's on 7/11

In their "Fate is Coming" costumes.

Fixing their hair after their last dance-ready to watch some dances and relax.

Taking pictures of the other kiddos.

Can't seem to coordinate them all to jump at the same time.

Waiting for awards to begin.

Beach Day with Erin and the Lawes - July 6 and July 8

Abby, Emma, Kaitlyn, Ella, Garrett, Rebecca, Andrew, Dallin, Emma and Jaden

Large waves!

Kaitlyn, Emma and James swimming out past the waves.

Rebecca and Andrew

Kaitlyn, Ella, Haley and Isabella
They went two days later to the beach all day with their young women's leader. Kaitlyn is a Mia-Maid now!

Bonfire Night!