School registration

I got the girls registered for school today. Autumn at 9:00 a.m. $96.00 plus $22.00 for school pictures. Also had to get her schedule changed around a little. She did not like a few of her teachers that she had last year and thought she would do better with different teachers. She is taking a few honors classes as well. Tymber was next at 12:00 p.m got her done for $17.00 plus I bought her a small book-bag the school offers for $7.00 as their lockers are small. Her homeroom teacher sounds like she will do well with. She has her for 3 classes. Some of her classes may have 37 students in it. Got to love budget cuts. :0( plus the books are all falling apart with no money to replace them. It makes me sad money is taken out of our schools. Hope was then last, I had to pay $50.00 snack fee for her for the year. Her teacher is Mrs. Stewart. She is going to love her. Autumn had her the first year she taught kindergarten. Autumn was thrilled Hope has her and Mrs Stewart already knows her name. She will be a fun teacher.
Tymber starts next Wed 25th. Hope goes for 1 hour on 25th and I go with her. Then Autumn and Hope will start their school on 26th. It is kind of a weird few weeks with the kindergarten schedule. It will all work out and be a good year.

Island Park 2010

Rory
us
Kade catching air
Rick
Autumn and Kylee
Love the look on Tyms face
my amazing daddy
Autumn and Ky
Hope and Ky
Ryker
Fearless Hope
Tymber

Every year we go to Island Park for a reunion. It is a lot of fun. We usually camp at Buttermilk but this year Caralyn was able to get a cabin because of my Aunt Perk. It was a really really nice cabin. My dad and Rory still brought their trailers up as there wasn't enough room for everyone to sleep. We went up Friday morning and had a blast. We took the jet skis and boats out on the water. Rick had his boat and Lynn and Allen had their boat. At first I went with Ryan and Hope on the jet ski. We were looking for the boat. Hope was not happy and did not want to go. Once we convinced her there were no sharks in the water she was game. We looked for an hour for them and finally found them. i didn't mind I was having a blast on the jet ski. Once we found them Hope got in the boat, Kade skied for a while then we went and had lunch. My dad decided he was going to try the jet ski, he was so funny he wouldn't give it gas, you pretty much have to lay on the gas to get it to move, he insisted it wasn't working, once we convinced him to give it gas away he went and had a ball. It is great at 72 he still plays with us. We then jet skied and played until almost dark. Went back to the cabin and dinner had been fixed. Dutch oven chicken and potatoes. yum Yum. Time to eat,sit around the campfire, let the kids roast smores, go to bed and get up the next morning. Of course we love to eat so there was a huge breakfast my dad, Rory and Allen cooked. Out to the lake we go again. We were there about half a day then it was cold and the water was choppy. About 3 we decided to go float Box Canyon. Got all the tubes and raft ready and we were off. Rich went with us this time, he didn't go out on the boat he was worried it would have hurt his back, so he stayed back and had some relaxing time. We were both so relaxed and needed to get away so bad. It was wonderful. We had Hope-5, Kaycee-3 Tessa-2 Trey-5 Tymber, Caralyn, Josh, Lori, Kylee, Autumn Rich and I floating. We got there and dang the water was COLD. Really really cold. Trey was freaking out, not much we can do we are in a canyon rock walls both sides pretty much on the river for 1.5 hours. He was in the raft with Rich. It starts to rain a little and lightning .Oops. All in all even though it was cold it still was a lot of fun. It is a pretty mellow float and beautiful. Back to the cabin to get warm and dinner was cooked again (haha) this time dutch oven roast that was to die for. Yummy
Hope decided she was going to tube herself. I offered to get on with her and she would not let me. We let her go by herself. My fearless fred. I don't think she liked it as much as when the other kids were with her but she didn't complain. Of course we went really slow with her. You can see by the pure joy on Tymbers face how much she enjoyed it. I loved the jet-ski. I finally got up the guts to ride it myself. Wow it was a blast. I was so so sore after and have bruises. i am still a little sore 4 days later but it was so worth it.
I am blessed to have the family that I do and am so glad we got to go relax and get away from everything for a few days.

Half way done

I finished my mid terms last week for my college classes. I am in week five now. There are nine weeks in a class so we are half way done. Crazy how fast it has gone. So far I am doing well. My overall grade for university studuies right now is 97.4. My overall grade in health and Science is 95.78 I am learning a lot and more importantly I am really enjoying school. huh, who would have thought that is something that would ever come out of my mouth. Of course as the classes get more challenging I may change my mind. Next spring when math comes around I will be cussing and saying bad things I am sure.
I can not belive August is half over and my kids go back to school on Aug 25th.I really am not ready. Yes there are days they fight and I can not wait but overall I enjoy having them home and just want more time. Maybe becuase Hope is starting kindergarten, i don't know but the thought is making me so sad.