Dessert Fun

David loves chocolate creme pie.

Roasting Dinner

 We had a firepit Sunday and roasted hot dogs for dinner.

Enjoying the Afternoon

 We had a break from the smoke and a cooler afternoon that was delightful for playing outside.

Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn

We had hamburgers for dinner to say goodbye to summer and then had pumpkin pancakes the following day for dinner to welcome fall on the first day of autumn.

Soccer Saturday

We went to see the Nickell and Trevino kids play soccer on Saturday. Mary and David had fun playing with Emery during the first game.

Elias was up first, followed by Ezra and Emery who both had games at 11:00.

It was comfortable in the shade and the games were bunched together, so it was a nice day to watch soccer.

Photo: Heather

 We had a picnic lunch during Natalie's game, then watched Evan and Micah's team play.

Box Time

Photo: Michelle

 We had lunch and hung out with Michelle and the kids yesterday, which included some time in a big box.

Exploring Anatomy

Mary was excited to take apart and put back together the model that Heather let us borrow.

Labor Day Adventure

Photo: Heather

We decided to go on a little adventure since Joshua had Monday off. We started off by picking up doughnuts and taking them to have breakfast with the Nickells.

Mary is interested in the body and keeps asking, "What else is inside my body?" So we borrowed some body books from Heather, which led to comparing scars.

We drove up to Calvin Crest, arriving in time to have a picnic lunch in Sherwood.

It was pretty warm, but comfortable in the shade.

We went on a walk by the lake, then let the kids run around on the grass while we sat in the shade and talked.

It was peaceful and quiet.

The kids had a blast.

We went on a short walk up to Eastview to look for blackberries. There weren't many but we did find some apples in the apple orchard.

David got a hold of an apple and ate his first whole apple. He loved it and walked around taking bites for a long time.

Mary was excited to help drive again and is getting good at steering on her own.

We went back down to Sherwood to explore a little.

We had fun on the little ropes course.

Back up at main camp, we had a picnic dinner.

The kids were pretty dirty, so we found a hose and rinsed them off before putting them in pajamas and heading down the mountain.

Beer Sampling

 We got to sample the new batch of home brew on Sunday.

Cute Kids

 Mary loves black jelly beans.

A Week on Our Own

We had the run of the house while Mom and Dad were gone. That meant some challenges, but we had fun too. Joshua started teaching this week at Stan State too.

Wednesday we made an obstacle course in the family room.

 Friday we made snickerdoodles to celebrate the last day of the first week of classes for Joshua.

Goodbye Grandma

 

Last night we had a memorial service for Grandma. We couldn't be there physically with everyone in Colorado, but we got to video call in and it was really meaningful to be able to participate in remembering Grandma.