First Day of School

The boys started school on August 9th.  Kaiden is a sophomore, Trevin in 7th grade, Gavin 3rd grade and Rylan is in kindergarten.

Poor Rylan was feeling well and didn't go to school on his first day.

He was better later in the day and was able to go on the second day.

 

Family Time

 

Carrie was here from New York the first week of August which happened to be her birthday.  We were able to have the whole family together.  We had taco night and played the longest game of Uno of all time.  It was fun.

Library Adventures

Our library system has some wonderful summer programs for the kids.  We take the boys to as many as possible.  We have done this with Kaiden and Trevin and are doing it now with Gavin and Rylan

 

These pictures are from a drum music program.  The programs always involve the kids.

We also did a scavenger hunt in the library and a choose your own adventure.  The boys really enjoyed these.

Eldorado Canyon 2024 Edition

On one of the 100 degree days we went on our annual trip to Eldorado Springs.  As always we had a great time.

O course we put our feet in the stream;

had a picnic lunch and a checker tournament; 

gathered pine cones for Tito;

took our picture on the steps (Rylan did not want his picture taken so he wouldn't sit on the step with his brothers);

and took this picture for Kaiden who wondered how many steps up his brothers would need to be so they were all the same height.  Rylan still didn't want his picture taken.

Car Wash

Whenever you add water to anything with the boys they always have a good time, so why not add your car?  They did a great job on the car and had a good time spraying and dumping water on each other.

I had Kaiden blow out the garage. This was the look on his face when he discovered the blower has a turbo charge setting.

Rock Painting

Earlier this summer we painted rocks.  The boys have always enjoyed this activity.  It is one of the things they asked to do this summer.  At our neighborhood park someone started a rock snake and invited everyone to add to it.  So we took some of our rocks to the park and made the snake a little longer.