School Started!

School finally started!

 Kenyon has been wanting to go to Kindergarten ever since he turned 5 in June.  His teacher is Mrs Lewann Jorgensen and he is really enjoying going to school.

Kyler is in the 5th grade this year.  His teacher is Mrs Laurel Coburn.  I can't believe that this is his LAST year of elementary school!

Kaylee is in the 2nd grade.  Her teacher is Mrs Stacey Miller.  She is so excited to go back to school so she can see her friends again.

Evelyn is ready to start school too...

...but cried when she realized that she doesn't get to go until after Labor Day.

She is enjoying walking to get Kenyon from school.  She takes her backpack and makes me take a picture of her every day.

On September 6th she will have her first day of preschool.  She is going to Leap to Learn Preschool which is the one that Sheri Henningson does.  I can't wait for her to go so she will stop asking "Me go to school today?"

What we did this summer!

We had a lot of fun this summer!

We relaxed and watched TV...

...had a nap...

... went for rides with our "friends"...

...had another nap...

...and another...

...and another...

...played with our siblings...

...made monkey faces...

...tried to make monkey faces...

...took another nap...

...Kenyon turned 5 years old...

...had another nap...

...went to the Zoo with the Henningsons...

...had fun with the Olsens...

...Mom had 1 of the 9 screws removed from her leg...

(the only one that they will remove)

...Kyler turned 10 years old...

...went for a boat ride...

...Kaylee turned 7 years old...



...Evelyn turned 3 years old...

...and we went to the fair!

Kyler went to the fair with us but he was on the bigger rides the whole time, so Mom didn't get any pictures of him.

Yeahbut & Rapunzel

Meet our new puppies!!

Rapunzel is a 6 week old female pure breed Yellow Lab.

Yeahbut is a 9 week old female Black Lab mix.

 

(While growing up, whenever Russell said "yeah, but..." his mother would say "Yeahbut's the name of a dog" because her father always said it to her. When Russell said it to me the first time (a long time ago) I told him that that needs to be the name of our first dog. As parents, we have said "Yeahbut's the name of a dog" to our kids enough that when I said I wanted to name one of the puppies Yeahbut they agreed. They didn't like Notme for the other one, so we named her Rapunzel.)

We have had lots of fun playing with them and watching them play together!

In other news, my leg is slowly getting better.  Just three more weeks and I can start walking on it again!!  I'm looking forward to being able to go outside and play with the kids and the puppies.  I realize that it will take a while until the muscles in my calf are back to normal, but I can't wait to start the process.