Derek's wreck on the bike picture

Here is the picture from my brothers phone right after the bike accident. Notice the helmet! I am soooo glad he wore one, it could have been his head!

seth flew in a 2 seater plane!!!

It was awesome!!! It was very very strange feeling too, when the plane turned sharp one time I was almost sideways!

The school year has begun again

Seth has moved on up to middle school! I can't believe it! My little boy has grown up! I remember for kindergarten roundup he told me that he will not always be my little boy and will move out of the house some day! As a 5 year old! Too advanced for his age. He likes it so far, all 3 days he has gone. He likes the prospects of his classes. I think he likes the fact that he changes around and sees his friends in different places. His classes look like they will be challenging enough for him also. He is taking pre AP math, reading, science, Spanish, art, band, health, social studies, a period of just reading anything he wants, and loves that he has recess after lunch for 1/2 hour everyday! That is cool!

Spencer likes his second grade teacher. She seems really nice and that is good. He has caught up with the friends he made the last month and a half of school here and has made a couple more. He is quite the social kid. He is doing a great job on adjusting this year to school.

Maggie so far misses her brothers being home to entertain her all day. They were a huge part of her life all day long this summer. She loves to have them come home and chase her again and tickle her neck. I will have to find lots of things for her to do. She is quite a busy baby!

So, it is so hard to choose pictures sometimes, especially when Seth or Spencer is standing here with me wanting ones to put up.

Our zoo and camping trip

For Derek's work, they took everyone to the zoo! So, the whole company brought their family to the zoo here and everyone else in the zoo left! It was great! We had the whole zoo to ourselves and they put on a animal show for us, fed us dinner and left the train and carousel on for rides for free! Maggie absolutely loved the carousel ride. She begged to go on. The animals were fun to see. It is interesting though, I really miss the Topeka zoo. I like how it is smaller and you can see the animals fairly close up! The lion as we were leaving was roaring, it was a good end to the zoo.

We as a family took off into the Rocky Mountain National Park for some camping. We didn't actually end up camping in the park, we were just outside of it next to a really big lake. I don't remember the name or I would share it! We camped for 2 nights. It rained both nights. The last night, it stopped before we went to bed and we saw all the stars. Spencer and I saw several shooting stars! Some funny things, we had a fun time trying to get our fire to light. It turned into a big joke when we gave up after like an hour trying to light it, and used the camp stove. When we just sat down to eat, we looked over to a roaring fire! We laughed and Seth said, humm... I want another hot dog!
We went hiking and fishing also.

More summer fun things

Some of the summer fun things like we said, the kids got to spend so much time with most of their cousins. They were so happy to spend time with them and play with them and etc. They climbed mountains, played at a beach, went to mini golf and laser tag and riding go carts, also we went to Wheeler farm, and most importantly we saw our niece Anna get baptized. It was fun to be with everyone. My parents moved from Houston to a new house in Eagle mtn. Utah. We stayed with them at first.
They didn't have any grass in yet so all the kids loved to play in the powder dirt. Spencer dove into the powder dirt and was covered. He shook his head and powder flew everywhere. It was hard to keep their house clean until that grass came.
Maggie was sick the first week we were there, but soon got better and became fast friends with her cousin Eli. He is 5 months older than Maggie. He is so adorable.
They shared everything. Seth has a feature on his camera that adjusts the smile of people, sometimes when picking pictures it is hard to tell whcih ones have them until they are published. See if you can see which ones have the adjusted smiles!

Summer fun things

Summer went by fast also, as everyone else has said for them too!
We started off with some visitors and then went to Utah for 3 weeks.
To much happened to name everything. I should have gotten on to share it all at the time. My cousin came for a couple of nights, all of our nieces and nephews were there at some point too! It was a lot of fun to see everyone. I am sure glad that our kids had lots of time to spend with almost all their cousins and both Grandparents.
Derek wrecked on our sister-in-laws bike and split her helmet in two while mountain biking with Ric and Jed. He said he was way to over confidant in his abilities after not mountain biking for how long? Needless to say, after landing literally on his head, he is doing so much better now and only aches sometimes. I am glad he wasn't hurt worse.