First Day of School 2010

Back to school. I have mixed emotions this summer. It just flew by. I wasn't quite ready for them to go back (I'm sure I would have been after a few more days). Katie is in the 1st grade and going to school all day for the first time. Her teacher is Mrs. Snider. Tanner is in 5th grade, big man on campus. His teacher is Mrs. Admire. This is the last year Tanner and Katie will ever be in the same school ever again. Garret is going to pre-school with Miss Lexie again.

Priest Lake Camping

We went camping over labor day weekend with our friends the Clarks and the Skidmores, and my brother Jon and his family. It was lots of fun. We went boating (even though it was quite cold), on a beautiful hike to some natural water slides, geocaching, on a scenic boat ride to upper priest lake, and we ate and ate. I love camping food. The kids had a great time playing with each other. They played murder one night in the bunk house and the next day Garret was walking around yelling "Murder, Murder, Murder" at the top of his lungs. He was also very fond of "shut your pie hole" this weekend. He needs a big bar of soap.

This is the sunken ship at Lion's Head camp ground. It has been there since I was a kid. We had to drive by on the boat and see if it was still there.

Help!?!

The other day we were driving down the road and Katie said "I want some hand cuffs, a pretty gown, and some more make-up." Should I be worried?

Cute Garret

Garret Wake Surfs

Garret has been talking about wake surfing for weeks. He lies on the floor of the living room and gives us all a demonstration of how to wake surf. It goes something like this. You get in the water, you hold the rope like this, you put your feet on the board and yell hit it. Then he jumps up and shows us how you stand and hold the rope and everything. But he is all trash talk, because when it comes to actually doing it, he always chickens out. So yesterday we kind of tricked him into doing it. We got him to get in the water with Kirt to just play of the surf board. Then Kirt grabbed him and threw him into position and we hit it. He screamed of course, but loved it once he was up.

Ice Cream At Chester Store

Garret and Nixon Ride a Bike

Ah look, they are getting along right now.  Garret and Nixon fight pretty much all the time right now.