A Fish and a Butterfly

Dylan passed his first level of swim lessons last week.
I was amazed to watch Dylan progress from being terrified of being in the water to diving off the diving board by himself! He loves holding his breath under water and kicking around with "Mr. Kickboard". He has yet to actually propel himself in the water but he knows enough to keep his head above the water and he's super excited to start the next level in August.

How's this for super cheese?!?
Mr. Giovannoni's employers had their summer picnic last weekend.
Ms. Alivia got her little face painted and she thought it was the coolest thing ever. I would catch her admiring herself in her mirror, so I grabbed her picture so she can always look back at her butterfly.

The Last Four Weeks

Things have been pretty quiet around the Giovannoni's, thanks to the rather rainy weather we've been experiencing lately. Even though the rain has kept us indoors most of this summer I have managed to get some photo's of some pretty spectacular rainbows.

These rainbows were so brilliant I almost couldn't believe my eyes!
My garden has loved the rain it's just exploded. I'm posting those pictures on my other blog if any one wants to take a look. Garden Pictures

• Derik took the kids for a day so I could go on our Father-Daughter Hike with my Activity Day girls. He's so awesome! They wandered The Salt Lake Temple grounds....And caught a couple of movies at the Clark Planetarium.Aunt Heidi's is up visiting, so we all got to go tour the new Oquirrh Mountain temple together.

• I went dark again.

• Don't we all wish we could wear our two year old sisters jeans and look SO GOOD...I asked Dylan to go downstairs and put some shorts on...This is what he came up wearing. He sure can make me laugh sometimes.
  

• And last but not least, Dylan's friends are all riding their bikes without training wheels this summer, so he insisted we take his off too. I honestly thought he was going to struggle with riding his bike without training wheels but he just took off!