Back to School

So it's just not my children that are going back to school. It's me--and just a few to many hundreds of dollars later--here is what I brought home.
Anyway, I started school on the 24th. My children went back on the 20th. So we have had a lot of schedule changes in the last week. So I am a bit late in getting this posted. So far I have enjoyed all of it, I am still missing a book for one class, but it's on it's way.

I did however take pictures of my children on the first day of school--Here they are! I think they are all so handsome :)
So here is Sammi--she is so cute.

And dang, I somehow didn't get Mason's picture on the first day of school. What a horrible mother I am!!!!!! so you get to see him playing football instead! How did I do that?
And then of course Adam and Josh. Both are growing up so fast!

JOSH

Don't have many pictures of him. Josh went and helped his Uncle Brett cut out corn mazes around the country. So we didn't have many pictures. While he was home, he had football conditioning every morning and some nights. Anyway Here is a few of him! Some he would probably be mad at me for posting---so---I don't know.

Adam's summer

Adam--finishing a swim meet in Jackson. It was great, he swam every race he could--but he sure was tired when he was done.

Adam swimming the front crawl--he did a great job, and brought home a blue ribbon in this race.

Soccer---Adam was the only one who played this year. So that was nice. I have a hard watching the game---oh wait this story isn't about me! is it!!!! Anyway, he did very well. The game was so much more organized this year--it was not a pack of children chasing a ball. He was scored goals and their record was 6 wins 2 losses. So great job team.

Bear Lake--well you all know we had a great time there. We would love to go back. Most likely next year.

The Pirate game the kids played---Adam aparently lost his arm and had a shovel for an appendage. They had lots of fun playing.

Mason's Summer

Mason's Summer Adventure
I was going to post pictures everyday of each of the kids---School started and I put it off. Anyway these are pictures of Mason.

Here he is at Bear Lake. He then went to Utah for a week, to spend time with Cody. He had fun, but we sure missed him.

This is that cool little shed in Virginia City, MT. His favorite thing was either the train or the candy store. We liked them both.

Mason was the first one at the pond--throwing anything he could into it.

The swim team at Heise. He is doing so well this year. He missed both meets in Jackson, was able to participate in the fun meet at Heise. We are so proud of him.

Sammi's Summer

So I thought I would share some of our photos from our Summer. These are some great ones from Sammi's adventurous summer.

Sammi joined the swim team. She didn't really like it much-but she did really well. She can now jump off the side of the pool and swim to the edge. Here she is practicing with the kick board, but it's the only one I had where her face is above the water.

We went boating at Bear Lake. We had a family reunion there--it was so much fun.

Of course we played in the water and the sun. Bear Lake is a wonderful place to play and have fun. The sand is great. You can see it is all over her.

This is just a silly picture of her. The kids were playing a pirate game and digging on the beach for treasure. Grandma and Aunt Janae made them all PJ's and buried them in the sand.

We took a day trip to Virginia City, MT. I loved these pictures of her. This one was them playing by a pond--and of course we can't play by a pond without throwing rocks in it---right?

There was a cool old shed there-so we naturally we had to take some pictures.

Sammi turned 7 in July. You can tell I didn't make that cake. I meant to though. We had a little party with just us and her. Wow---where did all that time go? I really wish she was 1 again.

Regardless, she had a great time. I am sad summer is over. School starts on Thursday :(
We do have a new school to go to, so the kids are excited about that. I myself wish I had them home for 3 more months.

JULY???????? Where did it go?

I was just thinking I hadn't posted anything for a while. Asking myself where the month of July went, and my answer is I don't know. We have done some fun things--the photos are still on my camera. That has been my excuse for waiting to do this tomorrow. Between Family Reunions, birthdays, soccer, swim meats, and just trying to make the month last longer---I have just plain procrastinated. Now that's all over and we have just started football. School registration is tomorrow. WoW! I can not believe it. I find myself contemplating the 2 months of summer that are just gone. Josh has just taken another trip to Oklahoma, and is driving to Texas tonight and then on to Arizona. He says it's really really really hot. He will be glad to be home. Mason and Adam have started football--and really like it. It's hard work though. Sammi and I are just taking it easy. Ivan is heading off to his High Adventure for Scouts in the morning. I just finished taking a health class--which by the way I got a 98% in. Good Job Me! So my blog has taken a bit of a back seat to all our fun activities we have done, or reading a good book or whatever else I could find to not clean my house. :) So we have been busy this month, but we surely found ways to just hang out and not do much. We have enjoyed our time together as a family and wish summer lasted 3 more months.