Back to School

Well, believe it or not we just finished our second week of school. The summer flew by and we are into the full swing of school complete with homework, meetings, pep band, meetings, work days, football, meetings, and soccer. Did I mention meetings? Actually, I haven't had that many, it just seems like it because I had a couple last week along with a homemaking meeting at church one night. Connor seems to like Kindergarten and Cade was excited to get back to preschool and daycare. Poor Caylee is by herself at Linda's again, but she really doesn't seem to mind too much. Christopher is in 8th grade and having a good year so far. We also had our first home football game last night and Christopher got to play his guitar a couple of times. He was awesome!! If I ever get a good camera, I will video him and put a clip up. He played Welcome To The Jungle by Guns-N-Roses, and another kid named Chris played the drum set. They did a really good job! The first JH football game is in a couple of weeks in Deerfield, KS so I will hopefully have some pictures to post then.

Fun Valley

These 100+ days are making me long for the cool mountain air at Fun Valley! I didn't get many pictures this trip. Believe it or not, we were going to pick up a new camera on vacation; but, we couldn't find what we wanted. Oh well. Most of the pictures are of us taking the kids to the guaranteed catch fishing pond. Oggie, Christopher, and I took them, but we kept getting rained out before Caylee could get one caught. Dad and mom wanted to make sure that they all got a couple of fish, so we went back. The three little ones were thrilled with their catches!! Caylee and Cade played with their fish until they were dead. Little princess doesn't mind playing with the "gross" things like fish, frogs, and bugs---hmmm, wonder where she gets that? ;o) Two of my most favorite pictures from the fishing pond were the one with Christopher helping Connor fish, and the one were Caylee's getting her fish out of the bucket while Cade proudly holds his fish up for the picture. We also had to get a picture of the kids on a giant rock. That picture is kind of becoming a yearly thing for us. Missi got me started on that. But it's a really cool idea; I do love seeing how much they have grown from previous years through comparison of the pictures. Ah, how I wish we were camping in the cool mountain air! Oh well, we'll have to settle for being comfortable at home. :o)

Feeding the Ducks

One of Connor's catches

Cade proud of his fish.

Caylee's fish

Fishing made us hungry for ice cream from the Snack Shack.

Another one!

I LOVE this picture of Christopher helping Connor fish!!