Happy Birthday Jared!!

I found this old picture and came face to face with how fast my children are actually growing up!! This picture also captures what Jared is to us!! We are on a campout with a scout troop, and the children are having a blast with Jared. Jared is campouts, marshmellows over campfires, a bucket of popcorn at the movies, fixing engines, loud and lively voices throughout the house, bullrides and kick the can all rolled into one, holding hands and love notes. Jared takes us on adventures of every kind. Hope you have many returns of the day Jared- we love you!

meet the teachers

well, summer has FINALLY ended...we have a new school in our back yard and my kids are sooo excited to go to this sparkly beautiful new school! my kids actually have been looking forward to school starting for a while (Ill try not to be hurt ).... This is Megan with her 5th grade homeroom teacher Mrs Kunze....

This is Jacob w/his 4th grade homeroom teacher Mrs Hildebrand....

This is Travis in his seat in 2nd grade- he especially loves school, which actually surprised me.....i always expected him to just show up at home during the day, it wouldn't have surprised me to have him just walk out of school and come home,but he never did....

Travis and his 2nd grade teacher Mrs Bendele....

Chloe hangin with Heath in her new Kinder class....

This is Chloe with her new Kinder teacher, Mrs Echtle, who was actually Jacob's 1st grade teacher... fun times ahead of us....it's weird though, part of me is really sad and trying not to tear up with Chloe going away to school, but the other part of me is bursting with a kartwheel!!

Hike to the Y

This really was one of my favorite activities I shared with my kids.....I had great memories of when I did it in college days......I will be the first to say that this was one killer workout!!

my kids had so much fun sharing this activity with their cousins as did I, Sydney was totally right, we should have been out the door earlier and it would have made a huge difference.

this is my sister at the bottom of the trail, next time she's making it all the way to the top!