The End of August

The rest of August brought many fun moments. We enjoyed the first rain of the season.

We continued to pick lots of blackberries. One day while Mary and Hannah were picking with me, they decided to squeeze into the stroller together.

 We went to the school library for the first time and enjoyed lots of new books.

First Day of School

We celebrated the first day of school with a banner and cookies. We're homeschooling through Mountain Home School this year. Mary is starting first grade and David is starting preschool.

 The kids had lots of fun mixing primary colors to make orange, green, and purple icing for our cookies at the end of the day.

Grandpa and Grandma's House

The kids and I headed down to the valley to stay at Dad and Mom's house for a few days. They got to play with playdough.

They also had lots of fun playing in the sprinkler and getting all wet.

On Friday, we went to the Trevinos' house. The kids played with the cousins while Dad, Mom, and I helped with the great Trevino remodel. They are in the middle of remodeling their kitchen and replacing most of the flooring with vinyl flooring. We spent the day putting down flooring.

 We made a lot of progress, but it still felt like a lot to do. They were able to finish up the flooring the following day though while the kids and I headed home.

Still Summer

 

It was a little jarring to realize that summer wasn't actually over even though the summer season at camp ended. We made the most of the late summer days though with lots of reading and blackberry picking.

The kids are getting good at picking berries.

Mary has been interested in volcanoes lately, so one afternoon she read to us about volcanoes then we built a volcano and watched it erupt.

The kids then made their own volcano that erupted over the living room multiple times.