October 2012

We loved going to the Boise Temple Open House in October. It was great to take the kids and they were so excited to go inside the temple. Unfortunately for me, they took out the clothing rental so I have not been able to go back since it has opened due to not having temple clothes that fit, but I am anxious to go back and do some temple work. In addition to going to the open house, I was able to attend the Temple Celebration for President Monson. What a fantastic experience!

 

Halloween is a lot of fun! The kids enjoyed dressing up and wore their costumes several times before Halloween. Logan didn't last long going to houses, Jenna ran door to door with her older brother and neighbor kids for a while until she decided she had enough, but Adam was our die hard this year. I was determined to hit every house in the neighborhood. However, the kids enjoyed handing out candy probably more than they liked going trick-or-treating.

 And of course, we had to carve our pumpkins. Each of they made their own design.

September 2012

We took a quick over night camping trip the first part of September, before it got too cold outside. The kids loved going with their cousins and grandma and grandpa. They definately have it on their list of things to do next summer.

August 2012

Adam has really been enjoying scouts and works hard to get awards. He has, as of last week, earned his Wolf and will be awarded it next month at Pack Meeting (February 2013)!

 We spend more time at the pool this year and the kids loved it, especially Jenna. She could have stayed in the pool all day if we let her. It was a lot of fun to watch her get comfortable in the water as the summer went on.

 First day of 3rd Grade for Adam was exciting! I can't believe he's in 3rd grade already! He loves it and has a great teacher.

 Jenna goes to kindergarten every other day, full days. It is an adjustment and hard schedule, but she LOVES school and wishes she could go every day. This is a cute picture of her on her first day of school. (Adam got to start a day earlier than she did.)

Busy, Busy July

 Ryan took some time off work the first part of July, which was really nice and we were able to go do some things. We went to Idaho City one of the days and did 4-wheeling, played in the creek, had a picnic, shot the BB Gun, and finished it off with an icecream cone from a little place in Idaho City. It was a great day!

 We also went boating with some friends on Ryan's other day off work. It was fun...hot, but fun!

4th of July

 I really meant to post about the 4th of July a month ago, but July has been BUSY!!! So, let's try to do a little catch up.
We had a fun 4th of July celebrating with our Patriotic shirts (Ryan's idea, and I was blown away when he suggested it,) flooding the grass at Grandma and Grandpa's, dinner, and ending the day by enjoying a firework show in our cul-de-sac.

All the 3 of our kids and the neighbor kids decorated their scooters and bikes for the big celebration. Unfortunately, we didn't make it back home before the neighbors did the cul-de-sac parade. But the kids didn't seem to mind, they all just did a parade over and over anyway.

Boise Cousins

That firework must have been a good one! :)

 Happy Father's Day to one great daddy!!!

 June has been busy with playing outside, riding scooters and bikes, getting a fair share of scraped knees, Ryan fishing with Adam, Mindy trying to keep the kids on a decent schedule (not doing a very good job of that) and we're just getting started! :)

And at the end of the day all of that playing has wore us out!
Oh, how I love the summer!

June

June started out with a bang! On the first day of June was Adam's last day of 2nd grade. He has mixed emotions this day: sad to leave his excellent teacher, but excited to start summer break! He did wonderful in 2nd grade and can't wait to see what 3rd grade brings.
On the second day of June, Adam ran the Capitol Classic race for the third year in a row. This year he had more buddies to run with, which is always great. Before we left, he said to me, "I'm determined to win, or at least finish!" (Last year he and several others fell at the beginning of the race and got a free ambulance ride down to the finish line.) This year he ran the mile in just over 10 minutes!

The racers before we left to go downtown. Jenna can't wait until she's 6 and can participate in the race.

Right after the race...feeling a little tired

During the race...pictures compliments of The Idaho Statesman