Student of the Month

Parker is Student of the Month! Each month his school picks two students from each grade who demonstrate the month's character trait which this month is responsibility. He was recognized by the principal at the spirit assembly and given a backpack with all kinds of goodies. He also gets to hang a poster about himself in the hall. I am SO proud of him for the example that he is. He IS responsible and cute and funny and smart and awesome.

I'm happy that he loves school and does so well! Thanks to Grandma Judie, Grandma Julie and Grandpa Terry for coming and making the day even more special!

What a big girl!

Anna has been counting down the days until she could go to school and she finally started yesterday! She was so excited! After I picked her up we walked to the library and then to pick Parker up from school and she told EVERYBODY that made eye contact with her "I started preschool today!".

People at the library, kids at Parker's school, the crossing guards. I'm glad that she's excited! I hope it lasts for the 18 years she has to go!

Anna and her friend, Kate!

She's such a cute girl! I love her and although preschool is short and only three days a week, I miss her when she's gone!

Goodbye Summer!

We ended our summer on our 4th annual camping trip to "the dirty spot" with our friends Tom and Krisha. We always have a great time and it's something we look forward to every Labor Day.
Parker and Anna obviously weren't thrilled about the foil dinners we had for dinner.

UNO Attack and Catch Phrase are two of our favorite games to play while we are there. Nice face, Park!

This year we had some visitors - a mama, daddy, and baby cow. This is the mama - she gave us the stink eye while the dad and baby ate. Then they took a nap just down from our site.

I forgot Anna's bag of clothes (thanks dad & Jules for making the drive and bringing them to us!) and we had to leave early because of the rain but all-in-all, it was a great trip!

Thanksgiving Point

Last week my sister-in-law invited Anna and me to go to lunch and Thanksgiving Point with them. The girls had a great time petting all of the animals and taking a hayride. What a beautiful fun little place!

A Day at the Lake

On Saturday we went to one of our family's favorite places...the lake. That's what we call it, most people call it Pineview. We had a great day with family and friends, playing in the water, riding in the boat and I finally got to check out the cemetary - something I've wanted to do my whole life. I know, I know...it's a little morbid. I don't care - I like it. It actually makes me count my blessings. There were several families that lost so many young children (the cemetary is old and some of the headstones were from the late 1800s and early 1900s). I'm SO grateful mine are healthy and happy!

Anyway, this is it for now! Although I love fall and am very excited for it, we're trying to squeeze the most out of these last few days of summer. I hope you all are doing the same!

It's What Fun Is!

On Friday, we took Parker and Anna to Lagoon. What a great day! Parker and Anna are so brave. Anna rode every ride she was tall enough to ride and some that she wasn't (the Bat) and Parker rode Colossus twice and the white roller coaster. I was really proud of them both.

The picture of Park is after riding the Colossus the first time - wasn't feeling so well!

Here's a cute story about the day...on Thursday I was looking online to see how tall you had to be to ride some of the rides. Parker was tall enough for some of the big ones but Anna really wasn't. So she was complaining that she wouldn't be able to ride any rides so I told her that she would be able to ride all of the rides in Kiddie Land. SO the next day, she was talking to me about the Cat Land rides. It took a minute to register...when I said Kiddie Land she heard Kitty Land. Kinda cute!

Here we are waiting in line for Dracula's Castle...scary!

Crazy Hair, Neighborhood Water Party & Just Enough Cooks in the Kitchen!

This is what we've been up to the last couple of weeks!

One day Anna wanted her hair curled and with my hand still healing I couldn't do it for her so she decided that she would do it herself. A good job, don't you think?

What the? Is that grass in her hair?! Anyway, moving on...

On Saturday we had a neighborhood water party/bbq. There was an inflatable slip-n-slide and a dunk tank! Anna was perfectly content on the slip-n-slide and it got even better when she was being thrown down! She waited in line for the dunk tank and then decided she didn't want to.

Parker liked the dunk tank - both as the dunker and the dunkee!

And finally, last night Parker wanted to make dessert for the family from his kids edition Betty Crocker cookbook. Aaron and Anna pitched in and made a scrumptious warm chocolate pudding cake! Here's some pics of my cutest chef's...

Of course, mingled with these activities were afternoons and lunches with friends, spoiling by grandma, a game night, homework, and physical therapy for me (Yay! Everday it's getting better and better!)

We hope you have a wonderful week!