Summer Camps - Voice Camp, Dance Camp & Teen Trekkers

Avery was in a voice camp and a dance camp this week while Morgan did the Teen Trekkers with the park district. 

Morgan's camp took her on a few fun field trips. They went to Scrimms, Lincoln Park Zoo, PuttShack and Cypress Cove. She wasn't a huge fan of the camp, though, because in the afternoon they had "free/phone time". And since she doesn't have a phone yet, she did not really enjoy that time. I ended up picking her up early most days. Here she is in her bright swim shirt they all had to wear!

Avery did the dance camp through DGN put on by the Athenas. It was a two night camp with a short show at the end. There were a lot of kids there!

Avery's voice camp had a short performance at the end of the week. There were four girls in her camp. They got to pick the songs to sing, make programs, come up with the choreo and even decorate shirts. She had a lot of fun!

 

 

A hair cut and a play date

Milo finally got his summer cut!

Before

After

Helen and Ed stopped by Downer's Grove on their way to Michigan and brought Luke over for a play date with Milo. Luke isn't super into playing with other dogs, but Milo tried his best! While Luke played catch with the tennis ball, Milo chased him around the yard. :)

Basketball Shootouts

Morgan's team had a shootout on Saturday and she subbed for the other team on Sunday. On Saturday, they won one and lost one. The first game they lost by 4 points and could have won that game. There were some really questionable things going on with the refs, which made it hard for the girls.

The second game, they won 28-17. Here she is dribbling in for a shot...

And then here she is on the ground... she's good at sacrificing herself for the foul!

On Sunday, her team was a combo of kids two years younger and one year younger than her. She was the oldest. Their team had some small kids! The first team they played against was kids a year younger than her. The second team they played were kids her age, so the little ones on her team looked even smaller! But, they did a good job holding their own! In the first game, they were tied and a girl from Morgan's team got confused and shot at the other team's basket and scored the tie breaking winning basket for them. Ugh. In the second game, the girls only lost by 7 points. The team they played had beat the first team 38 to 17 (so we had been expecting a total blowout!)

We ended the weekend with some tasty treats from DQ!

Happy 7-11 Day!

We grabbed our free slurpees from 7-11 today! :)

Wrapping up another session of ACS Camp

Today was the last day of the second session at ACS summer camp. We are only doing two sessions this year. The girls both just love this camp, so it was kind of sad for it to be ending this summer already! Next year will be their last year as it stops after 8th grade.

Avery's Actor's Workshop class had a performance this morning. She and her friend Maggie wrote and performed a skit called the job interview.

Afterwards, they all went on stage and did their final bows!

Flipping at the pool

 

Happy 4th of July

Brett hosted a party at his house for the 4th. The kids had a blast! They swam in the pool and chillaxed in the hot tub! They also had quite a lot of fun on the slip-n-slide. My Dad made ice cream and Brett brought out the sparklers! Matt had smoked some pulled pork to have for dinner, which was delicious!

The girls are both taller than Grayson right now!

Avery living her best life in the pool!

The slip-n-slide got a little crazy! I'm surprised the slide lasted the day! And I'm also surprised no one was hurt! They kept running up the slide while the others were going down the slide trying to wipe them out like it was bowling or something! :)

Everyone helped Papa turn the ice cream!

The ice cream was delicious as always!

Then, it was time for some sparklers!

Brett had this brilliant idea... yikes! Surprisingly no one was seriously burned!