Wednesday, August 31, 2011

First Day of School....



Dan was so excited to head out the door this morning. Dan's first day was a shortened day....more like a meet the teacher and hang out at the classroom for an hour :-) Tomorrow will be his first REAL day of school. He's in full-day kindergarten and goes from 7:50am to 2:10pm. He'll love it!!! One of his best buds is in his class-- J.R! They were in preschool together for two years together. HOORAY!



Brit got three awesome teachers this year in 6th grade. Her homeroom teacher is her math teacher. Brit loves math, so she was delighted! She has some good friends in her switch classes, so that's good too. Brit is still intent on taking piano and is playing flute in school band class, too. Soccer starts tomorrow! It's all good :-)





Mike would be happy to have 6 more months of summer. He's already in the thick of football this season-- they've been practicing 2 weeks already. He's playing on the defensive line and sometimes fullback. Mike LOVES to smash things, and since people count as things, he's loving smashing people, throwing them around and sacking the QB on a regular basis. Mike's still growing. He's 5' 11"+ and about 210 lbs. Seminary starts tomorrow, bright and early at 6:30, so that will be a shocker again for the a few days until Mike gets readjusted to his new schedule :-)

The Last Bits of Summer.....


Mike spent the last days of summer on a 50 mile hike with the scouts. He had a lot of fun and ended up carrying another kid's pack for a good part of the hike, in addition to his own pack. The other kid hurt his ankle. If you look closely here, you can see Mike sandwiched in between a pack on his back and a pack on his front :-) It builds character (and big muscles).....







































Brit spent the last few days of summer learning how to use Brad's sewing machine (vintage 1945-ish). Brad showed Brit how to sew a tote bag, to start with and next week she'll start using patterns :-) Perhaps it's time to invest in a newer sewing machine (ha!)


Dan spent the last few hot (80 degree) days of summer out blasting bugs with his mega-squirt gun :-)