A Trip to San Jose, CA

I drove to California with Tanner, Rachel, Rebecca, and Adam last week to visit my parents in San Jose and to help them get packed up and ready to move to Utah. Joshua and David joined us on Thursday and we spent several days being tourists. It was great visiting my old wards and seeing old friends. I'm sorry I didn't have time to visit with everyone but there are only so many hours in a day. Hopefully I'll get another chance to visit sometime soon.

Here are just a few pictures of some of the fun things we did. I didn't take any pictures of us packing boxes but that is what we did a lot of the time too. :)

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Keepin' Cool

Rebecca and Adam found some relief from the heat on the slippy slide along with a few friends (not pictured). I even wanted to try it but was afraid I would end up too bruised so I just walked along the side by the sprinklers. :)

An Amazing Weekend

David and I got to go to Banff, Canada for the weekend. My niece, Tera, took care of the kids for us. THANK YOU TERA!!!!

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Independence Day Celebrations

Happy 4th of July from the Powell kids. We had a great weekend. A neighborhood parade and breakfast, a BBQ and swim party, Stadium of Fire, church, a big family dinner and fireworks, and another BBQ the day after the 4th. Wow!!! What a weekend. I love America and am so thankful for our freedoms that we have.

Rachel

The largest Eagle Court of Honor ever. 261 scouts received their Eagles at the Stadium of Fire in celebration of the 100 year anniversary of scouting. It was absolutely awesome. When they did the Eagle's Next they had everyone who was an eagle scout in the stadium stand up and hold up a poster of the eagle scout emblem. It really was cool.

Notice the ear plugs Adam and Rebecca are wearing. We learned last year that ear plugs are really nice so we all had them this year. :)

Seven Peaks Water Park

I haven't been to Seven Peaks since just after David and I got married... before we had any kids (I have a 19-year-old so it's been at least 20 years). Yesterday I took Josh, Rachel, Rebecca and Adam and we spent the day. Tanner is at EFY at BYU so he wasn't with us.

We had a great time and my very favorite ride was the Boomerang which is a giant half pipe (it's in the slide show). Today we are recovering from being out in the sun all day yesterday but it was worth it.

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Rebecca Wins the Race!!

Today was Rebecca's first swim meet since we moved from California. She took last summer off but decided to give it a try again. She's having a great time and she did really well at the meet. She won her 25 yd freestyle and her 50 yd freestyle and she came in second on the 25 yd. breaststroke. She was awesome!!!

Adam's soccer season ended and his coach had a little swim party with awards at the end. Here's Adam receiving his award from his coach, Brook.

Here he is with all the boys who played and the 2 coaches (the 2 girls).