The Last Hurrah of Summer

Shawn competed in the Utah Half Ironman on Saturday morning: 

and Jonas and I went to a climbing class in the afternoon, so we had to save our last celebration for Saturday night.  We wanted to do something a little different than our usual, but something that everyone would enjoy.  We decided to go to Color Me Mine.  (Of course it helped that I had a groupon to use, too.)

Jonas was insisting that he didn't want to go and that it wouldn't be any fun, but once he decided what he wanted to do, he enjoyed himself - just as I knew he would.

It was funny to see how seriously everyone was working.  Such concentration on their projects.

It took everyone a little while to decide what they wanted to paint, but once they decided, they all got right down to business.

Peter's cute little turtle ended up with about 15 coats of paint - in most spots, and none in others.  I can't wait to see how it turns out after it is glazed and fired.

Shawn was concentrating really hard.

I told him he was making faces - which made him laugh.

The semi-finished products:

We will get to pick up the finished products in a few days.

Even though it was way past bedtime for some of these kids, we couldn't let the last day of summer vacation go without stopping at Nielsen's for some frozen custard.  Mmmmm.

Peter ended up wearing almost as much of his as he managed to get in his mouth.

And Duffy wasn't much better.  She ended up with chocolate ice cream gloves - her hands and arms were completely coated.  There were strict instructions for the younger kids to not touch anything in the car, and then they were all dumped in the bath when we got home.

We are all really sad to see our summer vacation go, but we had a good time celebrating.