The first day of school...

Oh man...I can't believe that it is already here! Things are changing around our house now...we cannot stay up until 11 anymore, we have got to be back on a schedule, and we cannot play all day every day! Yep, things are going to change! It is time to pull in the reins! Brinley is going into the 6th grade and her teacher is Mrs. Petersen. We are so excited to have her again! Sam is going into the 2nd grade and he has Mrs. Katie Bills for a teacher. Both of them came home today with great big smiles...they loved their first day of school!

A Fun Friday Night

The kids around here know how to have a good time. Sydnie and her friends invited more friends and before you know it...there are a lot of people over. They have a good time though and they are such all good kids and are welcomed any time.

This is a horrible picture. But it is a picture of Sam, Dallin, and Ben wrestling on the tramp...they were moving so fast that all of the picture turned out blurry.

Yea Football!!

This morning when Sam woke up he started to ask about the day. I asked him to go see where dad was and he came back and told me that he was gone in the green car. I said that he was probably getting some groceries. Sam asked why he wasn't at work and I told him that it was Saturday. Well that upset Sam so much because he wanted it to be friday so he could go to football practice. I couldn't help but smile when he was so close to tears over disappointment of not being able to go to football. He loved his first week!!

Football

These two are patiently waiting for football to start. They are all ready to go!

Football practice is going great! Sam is coming home excited each day and each day he has a new bruise in places I would never imagine. He is so tough!

Cabin Fever!

Now I know why people get cabin fever...! We went up with the Crosbys to their cabin and we had the best time. Their cabin is up by Smith and Moorehouse and it was so beautiful up there. All of the kids had so much fun...there were just so many things to do. We arrived later on Friday, cooked some pizzas and then just visited and played games. Saturday was the perfect day...we all slept in, had a great breakfast and then packed up to go to the lake. At the lake, we fished, canoed, played in the water, fished some more, canoed some more and played, played, played. Brinley, Sam, and Adam did not stop all day long! We had so much fun, we laughed all weekend long...I just love the Crosbys!

At the lake...as soon as we got there, these three went into action. They were the first one's to quickly grab the raft and get down to business...

Sam was like an expert at skipping rocks and every time he would cast out his fishing pole, he would call himself a professional, except he couldn't say the word.


Wayne and Steve pretty much spent a lot of their time fixing fishing poles that had gotten tangled. Janine and I thought that it was so funny that they were fixing them at the same time over and over again! What good dads!

We saw deer, a moose and more deer. Later that evening, we were all going on a walk and Brinley was riding Sam's bike and a deer jumped out about a foot in front of her and leaped across the road. It was quite amazing and a little scary...she was almost ran over! Later on our walk, we saw a beautiful moose just standing in some trees only about 30 yards away.

Cowabunga Bay

We had planned to go to Cowabunga Bay with Stephanie and her family but it didn't work out because of our crazy schedules. But she had promised her kids and I had promised my kids, so we had to go on different days :( We still had fun though and the water park was especially fun for Sam and Brinley and even Sydnie and McKenna. Lyndsie and her friends thought it was a bit boring and they lost interest fast. It was a great day with everyone though and the water park was great!