September

I am LOVING school being in session! The kids are So much happier with more structure in their day. It has been so nice to focus on the little girls again. Here is Derek with his Lego Harry Potter set that he made. It included Dumbledore's flying office. He is hoping to win a Lego magazine contest with it. Derek read all the books last spring, and really likes Harry Potter and now knows way too many facts about them.

The first day of school! We were all excited. So far, the kids like their teachers and all is going well. It is nice to have them out of the house from 8-2:45. It is so much quieter-and cleaner.

Today was Lindsey's first day of preschool. She is doing Joy School with 5 other kids. I will teach 12 days during the year at my house.

Spencer had his friend birthday party Labor day weekend. They took turns driving the boat and going in the tube. He loved it!

The kids are also doing soccer on Tues/Thursday. Larry is coaching Lindsey's team. Larry is also helping out with Waterpolo for the high school. That is usually twice a week as well. He's a busy man!

I finished canning my pears last week-26 quarts and hope to finish my apple pie filling in the next day or so!
I did a post on August too, so check that out!

Review of August

So, here is a long overdue update on us. In August we had went to Utah to visit my parents. They had a new 4 wheeler, so the kids got to try it out. We tried the slip and slide, but it was a cold day, so only the bravest kids did it. Kara sure looked cute in her swimsuit.

Cheese! I was amazed- a decent family picture!

While we were gone, Luke entered the MTC. The kids love hearing from Elder Fishhead. They also like to write him letter that just make no sense at all.

Oh, here is another picture from Utah. We had a campfire up the canyon. The kids loved hiking to the cave and roasting hot dogs.

Lindsey turned 4 when we got back.

Larry ran in the hood-to-coast with several siblings. He really enjoyed it- and he could even walk normally the day after- he is amazingly in shape.

Then we had Spencer's birthday. He's 6 now.

Here is a picture of Kara on the day we picked peached to can. She was cute, but loved throwing the peaches into the boxes! Spencer asked, "why is there so much throw up all over the ground?" I had to explain that people step on peaches and that's what they look like.

Peaches

80 pounds of peaches= 49 quarts = total exhaustion (and messy kitchen)


I would have taken a picture of my efforts of the last couple days, but someone in our family decided to shake our camera to death by running around the house making movies.
More later...