The start of summer!

For the Memorial weekend, we decided to head over to Louisville, KY (about 3 hours away) to see the famous Churchill Downs, where the Kentucky Derby race is held.  This was all for our horse-loving girl, Makenzie! 

 They had a fun little museum there where the kids got to race their horses.  

Dress up like the crazy people that come to Derby!

They even got to be a jockey and ride a horse. 

Gavin!

Jordan

Makenzie

 

Checking out the grounds….

Checking out the race track….

 They introduce the horses in a small welcoming area right before they head to the race track.

They have a jockey kids club area that we found.  They got to make some cool glasses.

It was a fun day!  This was not the day of the Kentucky Derby, but they had other races going on every half hour.  We stayed and watched several races and made our own bets on the winner.   On the way home, we stopped at a small candy factory and saw how they run.  We came out with a big box of chocolates that were gone by the time we got home.  We also stopped to visit one of Tyler's favorite mission companions and his family that lives in Lexington, KY.  

On Monday, we had our first BBQ for the summer and invited a couple families over.  We enjoyed some great company, food, and the slip n' slide.  I didn't think to get the camera out until the end.  The girls were sun-bathing.

Jordan was the only one left on the slip-n-slide. 

I cut the boys hair last week.  Jordan really wanted a mohawk, due to the influence of a classmate.  I let him enjoy it for 5 minutes before I buzzed it off.  Jordan hates any kind of hair product in his hair, so I told him a mohawk isn't for him, since he would need to use a lot of it.  (Mom secretly won that battle!)

Makenzie was painting her nails and Jordan just had to be included.  He decided on blue because "boys can only paint their nails if it's blue." I'm love how he states it like a fact.