Summer Goals
Anny had a great idea to plan our summer around the youth goal setting pattern. You can find more about that HERE. It has been nice knowing that each day there was a plan (or at least we tried.) 
For example, the physical days were hard (you thought that would be easy for us didn't you?) Going to the pool took a quick detour when our grandson broke his leg and was in a cast. It's too hot to do much more than go swimming, but we tried. On our vacations, we did a lot of walking and hiking. As for myself, I spent a lot of time on the river. Would you believe that I could get almost 60 minutes of exercise paddling my arms and walking to and from the car? Ben and I walked almost every day before Derek and Anny would wake up.
Social was going to be game nights with friends and family. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. On our vacations, we were VERY social with each other. Other than that, the kids did hang out with friends but it was non-specific and that's ok too. Sometimes hanging out is better than a plan. We often doubled up on other activities to include the social. When we went to the temple, we always invited people to join us. We took friends to the library and swimming too. I always went to the river with friends.
We picked a day for each of the areas of improvement; physical, social, spiritual and intellectual. Some of our plans worked out easily and others didn't go so well. Sometimes we combined plans to make them work.
Intellectual was probably the hardest for Derek because he said he hated to read. We decided that was going to be trips to the library each week. To make up for it, he watched a lot of history videos on youtube, lol. Anny and I did A LOT of reading this summer and I think Ben got some reading in as well but for Derek, it was simply painful. He finally found a book he was interested in and got halfway through it and that was after I told him I would pay him! We tried.
Temple Thursdays were my favorite. If we couldn't schedule baptisms for the kids, they babysat the grandkids so the adults could go to the temple. We made it to the temple almost every Thursday except while at our stake trek. We even got to go to the Snowflake temple and do baptisms there. We ran into our former Stake Ppresident, President Lawes, so that was an unexpected surprise!
Social was going to be game nights with friends and family. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. On our vacations, we were VERY social with each other. Other than that, the kids did hang out with friends but it was non-specific and that's ok too. Sometimes hanging out is better than a plan. We often doubled up on other activities to include the social. When we went to the temple, we always invited people to join us. We took friends to the library and swimming too. I always went to the river with friends.
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