Happy Birthday Jon

From the family that loves you so much :)

Happy 16th Wedding Anniversary!

I love you, Jon.

Beat the Heat

The end of summer celebration the Ft Wood library always has happened today. They give out awards for reading, put the kid's names in a drawing for some bikes, have a lot of fun activities, and of course, have the "dueling firetrucks" outside. We love this library and we visit here weekly. They just revamped the children's section and it looks great.

Here are the older boys with their friends Tyler and Katelyn waiting for their awards:

Getting their certificates:

Guess who won a bike in their age group??

Fire Truck Time!

First Day of School

I'm not going to start expressing my feelings about the first day of school again. Anyone who knows me or has read my past blogs on the first day, knows how much I can't stand it. We had such a great summer this year...mostly because Jon was home for much of it :). Also, instead of the summer cut I usually bestow on the boys, both wanted long hair this year. I actually took them to a hairdresser for the first time ever, just to get it styled. She cut their hair with a razor...and the amount she took off Nathan...well, you could put it on another kid's head and it would cover him! He has the thickest hair ever!

Here they are getting ready to leave:

Arriving at school:

Just Like Old Times

When we lived in Texas, I became really close friends with a gal named Rosezona. We met on Justin's first day of kindergarten, and her son Jayden was in the same class.

Here they are on a field trip (both in blue):

We started talking right after a parent's meeting and we both were upset about the playground situation. (I think it wasn't ready yet or something like that). Anyways, our boys were all really close for the 2 years we were together and so were we. We both left in 2005: she to Indiana and us to Missouri. We vacationed together back in 2006 to Tennessee (I was close to 5 months pregnant then), and we haven't seen each other since! Well, we got the chance to meet up in Branson over the weekend and everyone had such a great time, that we are planning our next get-together very soon!

Playing wii at the hotel:

Swimming:

Getting ready to "Ride the Ducks"

Rosezona and Michael:

Up close and personal at Predator World:The boys were able to feed the sharks and the stingrays:The kiddos:The old kiddos :)