Quick Bit

Alright, so I know that it has been so long since I have posted, but I guess we have been busy! And I had misplaced the camera for a few weeks. But now I have it back, and am taking pictures and getting things posted. So I will try to keep updating, because I know there are several things that I want to share!

We are slowly settling into a routine now that our first has gone to school. We are going to get a preschool program figured out for Rachel, and we will be even more set.

Well Thomas is awake, so I guess it is time to end. Leave messages! I love to hear from you all!

My Kindergartner!

Keith entered Kindergarten this year! Does he look old enough? The first two pictures are from the Back to School night when we got to meet his teacher before school started. He was so excited to play on the playground, can you tell? He can do the monkey bars and swing on the swings!


This is the night before the big day! I told Keith he is going to have to make his lunch every night after dinner so he will be ready for school the next day. Well that hasn't worked out as well as I thought it was going to, and it turns out we have plenty of time in the morning because he is still so excited about going to school he gets ready all by himself and needs hardly any prompting from me at all! So this is him making his lunch. He got to pick out what he wanted. He wanted Ham and Turkey sandwhich.

Then this is him all ready to head out the door! We drive him, because the bus stop is 3/4 of a mile from our home. The school is only a few more minutes drive. So we are carpooling with neighbors and they are taking him and we are bringing the kids home. I drove him and picked him up the first week though, just to get the routine established.

Can you see how excited he is! He still loves school, and it has been going for over a week now. We are glad he likes it and is so excited to go. It sure makes it easier on me when he gets himself all ready. And since I don't have to get Thomas and Rachel ready, it is really nice! Because it is usually just him and me as he gets ready!

He's my big boy, all grown up and going to school and everything!

Benihana Date Night

While Sarah and Chris were here the end of July, my parents took all us couples out on a date night to celebrate Sarah and Chris graduating from college. Sarah chose Benihana because she hadn't ever been there before. I got pictures of all the happy couples. We did miss Becca and Shawn though! And Jonathon!

Dude Ranch Hike

With our little hiking group during the summer, we started at the Baldy parking lot and the hiked to the abandoned dude ranch at the end of the road. There is a spring that sprung up during the big earthquake in the 60's, and so now a lake has formed. So I stood on one side, and took pictures as some people (Carolyn, Sarah, and Natalie) came around the other side.

Look at my studly husband! Carrying the baby and everything!

Here is the group of all the kids and a few adults, up on a pile of old railroad ties.

There was a little stream of water that all the kids liked jumping over. I tried to get them in the air. Some pictures were better than others.

Tyson helping Winnie over the river.

It was so fun to go on all these hikes this summer. It helped us get out of the house, even though the weather wasn't all that sunny and summery. But if we waited for the perfect weather, we would never get to go anywhere!

Babies on Moving Day

We spent some time helping Carolyn and Curtis move into their bigger apartment. Catheryn and Thomas got to play and I got some cute pictures, don't you think?

South Fork Hike

Here are some pictures from our hike to South Fork. We had a good turnout and lots of fun. This was in July, and you can see some "Termination Dust" in the background. That's snow for those of you that aren't familiar with our nickname for the first snow that hits the tops of the mountains. The kids always like finding fun rocks to climb, so we had to get a picture!

We didn't make it all the way to our destination (the bridge) because some of us had to get back early. But this next picture was taken from towards the end of our hike. It is looking back up the valley that we had driven down (Hiland) to get to the trail head. I thought it was quite breathtaking.

And we needed a picture of our family (minus Tyson who was at work). When others are around to take pictures, I try to take advantage, because I am taking the pictures more often than being in them.

This is the last hill on the way back to the cars.

My beautiful Rachel!