Izaac's Real Birthday - 4 years old!

Yes, that's pink writing - all we had in the house...

End of summer and School has started!

Had some fun at the end of the summer. Lots of swimming, went to a party at my dad's friend's horse ranch, another trip to the zoo with sadie and cooper, grandma came in to town and we spent three nights and days at her house while mom and dad painted trip and did work on the house (i think they went on a couple dates too....).
Then we got ready for school. At first I was excited, then not at all interested, then yesterday morning was my first day and i was nervous, and as soon as I got there, i was happy and comfortable and really wanted to go back today. Mom cried a little, she was ok until she thought about this being an everyday thing, not just a few days. She is glad I like it so much, makes her feel better about sending me off for 7 hours a day.
Mom is getting ready for school too. Hers starts next tuesday and she is nervous about that. Already has a reading assignment.

1st day of kindergarten

getting my bike to ride to school

lined up at school

Going into class


My whole family came by bike to my first day of school

Izaac is turning 4!

Izaac had an early birthday party cause he wanted grandma to be there and she was in town. He picked his big boy cousins Sammer and Bridger and neighbor Kaden and me to come, along with kaden's parents and our parents and we all went bowling. It was really fun.

Izaac's party

Pizza with grandma

He gets to keep a pin

Bowling

Kaden

Bridger

Izaac

Me (Sammer is behind me)

Izaac wanted a racetrack cake with dinosaurs watching
Mom made the cake

me in swim class

Zac in swim class

feeding the horses at the ranch

I loved the horses

More pictures, the garden grows

Here are more pictures of bekah and tenaya's visit, and of our growing garden. We ate all the green beans before we had a chance to get them inside. We had snap peas too, and they never made it in the house. The tomatoes are growing, still green, though, and we have watermelons about the size of a baseball. The corn is growing too, mom is not sure how many ears of corn per stalk, she is loving learning all this stuff.

swimming

at the pool with bekah


lounging with bekah

and tenaya

veges from the garden

picking veges while bekah watches

more zucchini

work, play, work, play

Well, with mom and dad taking lots of time off in june to go on mini vacations, they had to work back to back since july 6 - first mom did a couple days, then dad did 7 days, then mom did 4 days, then dad did 7 days. Now we have had a couple days off altogether and mom's cousin Tenaya and her daughter bekah visited. Even though either mom or dad was working, they did fun things with us while the other was at work. With mom we went to the pool, and she took us up to brainerd lake with our friends sadie and cooper and their parents. We also went with sadie and cooper and their mom and our mom out to idaho springs to go gold panning and go down into an old mine (mom forgot the camera for that one...). While mom was at work dad took us swimming so many times that izaac is really getting good - so good that we can mess around in the pool with each other and neither of us drowns.
While tenaya and bekah are here we went up to rocky mountain nat'l park to go hiking - it rained! And then we went to the pool with them today and mom got to see how good zac has become in the pool. It is a pretty cool summer!

Bekah, Tenaya and us in estes park

Hiking in rocky mountain nat'l park

All of us (missing daddy)

bouldering

up to brainerd lake with sadie

and cooper

fishing

and biking

I took pictures of courtney and mishka

i am better at picture taking than my mom!

Out to breakfast with Nana and Pop

mom and dad rode the motorcylce

in the hot tub in breck - check out the view!

playing board games with nana in breck.

out to dinner

taking a walk with mom