Jenna's First Day

My Kindergarten Girl has Miss Kelman as her teacher. 

Jenna came home with this!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

Andrew - my 10th grader has Mr. Peter

Amelia - my 5th grader has Mrs. George

Ava - my 3rd grader has Mrs. Harris

Jenna starts school tomorrow.  We went to Chuck.E.Cheese this morning for a treat.  Jenna won 100 tickets on this game.  Look at her face!

Last Week of Summer

Tonight we went to our favorite Olive Garden to celebrate Grandma's birthday!

This is one of Drew's favorite past times while home... playing with his Barney toy.

The butterflies are back!  Our bush, not so great, but at least there are enough flowers to attract the butterflies so I can take my pictures...

Jenna has special theme days now.  This day was "Miranda Lambert Day".  You can see the resemblance, right?  Heels, blue dress, guitar, curls, and sass..

Dave was mowing the front lawn this morning and Jenna went by herself to get the bag and rake to help her dad pick up the grass clippings. 

The days of Amelia and Ava staying in their pj's all day and lounging around have come to a close.  School tomorrow!!

Our big excitement of today.  A snake in our window well!!  The girls all took video of it before they released it into the back yard.  I hope it stays in the back yard.

Tomorrow is the first day of school!!

Chef Jenna

Jenna's creation.. Turtle Cupcakes.

Family Adventure - Joni and Friends Family Retreat!, Flat Rock, NC

We arrived at our second Joni and Friends Family Retreat in Flat Rock, NC last Monday.  Here are the kids with their STM's (Short Term Missionaries- Helpers - Kat, Victoria, & Meredith) for the week.

Here are Andrew and our friend Mike from home!

Golf Carts were the preferred method of getting around campus.

Here we are with our friends from home at our "Date Night" on Wednesday night.

Here are Andrew and Kat at breakfast.  Drew could sleep and eat at the same time.  Here he is happily eating bacon - lots of bacon.

On the first day of activitites, the girls chose Archery. Here's Ava's turn.

The kids went swimming the first day.  The water was COLD.

Here's Jenna getting a pedicure.

Amelia's turn for a pedicure.

Andrew touching the miniature horses

Crazy Hair/Hat Day!  That's the door way to our rooms behind them.

Super Water Slip-in-Slide.  Jenna & Meredith's turn.

Ava - mid-splash

Yes, I allowed Andrew to be hoisted into the air at the rock wall.  This was as far as I could tolerate though...

Amelia before her rock wall climb.

Amelia beating daddy up the wall.

Jenna horseback riding.

Ava with her balloon animal dog.

Amelia with her blue snow cone tongue.

Ava's turn on the horse.

The talent show and the Children's programming.  The kids sang a song.

Jenna and Meredith before breakfast.  The girls -even Amelia had many, many piggy back rides around campus.

Here we are on the last sad morning with Kat before we said goodbye.

I was listening to Jenna helping her doll Meredith to pray.  I got the camera and she and trout were praying "that Trout was able to get back into the river".

As we said goodbye.  One last photo.

Non-stop fun, treats, snacks, friendship, and fun.  Now we are back home and getting ready for the school year to begin....

Nationals Game

We had to get to Nationals Park to get our Jason Werth Garden Gnomes.  We now have six of them.....

Summer Fun

Our butterfly bush is only a small portion of its usual self.  Here is what our butterfly bush looks like today.  A few butterflies!

Jenna went out for a car ride today with 2 purses, Meredith, her keys, phone, sunglasses and hat. 

Here are our sunflowers.