Projects

 All 4 of my kids are now in school. Granted Gracie is only in pre-K, but she is still gone a couple of hours four days a week. So to keep myself from being lazy I am trying to do projects around the house. Most of them are boring, but I have one I am proud to show off. This is Lucy in her dress back in this year spring time. She has loved this dress and it is so cute on her that I wanted one for Gracie. A week ago all the grandkids at my parents house were wearing Grandmas material as capes. The one Gracie was wearing was huge about 3 yards of material. I decided that was the material to make the dress out of.

Here is the dress all done. I took at the measurements from Lucy's dress and just recreated it.

 There is enough material to still have a cape!

 She is happy to have another dress! She loves wearing dresses.

First Day of School

It is the first day of school and this is what Hunter is doing. Poor little guys is sick to his stomach. I guess this is going around right now. He was fine yesterday and got to meet his teacher. Then he woke up feeling horrible. He will have to have his first day of 3rd hopefully tomorrow.

Here are my 5th and 1st Graders. They are super excited for their first day. They want to see who is in their class and maybe make some new friends.

Skirts

At Franklin we have a strict dress code. The boys have to wear pants. The girls are allowed to wear skirts or dresses to their knees. They do not make skirts like that very often. Lucy wants to wear more skirts and she has her favorites that are not long enough. I have been adding to them to make them long enough. This yellow one is one she loves. It was not long enough so I had to change that. You can't tell in this picture because the flash made it glow, but the glowing stuff on the top of skirt is orange and red. So I thought it would be cute to add an orange ruffle underneath. Actually it was Lucy's idea to add it under to have layers. I was just going to add it to the bottom. I am glad she suggested it. I think it turned out so cute. I had to share.

 This is one I did a while ago. It is fun to go through your material and find on that matches pretty good. I have a couple more skirts to change. I just don't have any material to match right now. I guess I have a good excuse to go to Joanns.

Cub Scouts

I love my calling! The boys are so sweet and excited each week. This past week we went to an airplane museum. It had lots of cool airplanes. Best of all it was free for all the cubs. The only thing I would change is go at a different time of the year. It was not very cool in there. Live and Learn!

More Cabin Fun

 I spent a lot of time at the cabin towards the end of the summer. I wanted to live up there. The weather was beautiful and so were the surroundings. We even spent a whole week up there. I was even alone with the kids for almost two days. It was weird to think about how that is how most of first settlers were. The didn't have neighbors for miles and didn't see them very often. It was a bit lonely, but relaxing too. I read lots of books and just had lots of time to think.

Here are a couple of pictures of the kids putting on a play of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. It all started with Hunter looking into the fire that was really hot and saying to my Grandmother "I wonder what it would be like to burn in there" So Grandma Jean pulls out her bible story book and has them read the story. She helps them find costumes. Hunter is the King Nebuchadnezzar. The girls with the three in the fire. It was really cute!

 I love how sticks can become swords! My kids have the best imagination.

 Hunter was having fun with the bow.

 Check out these eyes!

Tyler talked his Dad into letting him drive the quads by himself. He was one happy boy.

 When we were alone we would go on long prowler rides. This is what I would look at in the back seat.

Hunter would stick his face over the prowler when we would go over puddles. This is what he would look like by the end of the ride!

Summer Fun!

This summer has been a blast! We have been BUSY! I let the kids pick something to sign up for this summer. Lucy and Gracie took a tap, ballet, and jazz class. Hunter and Lucy did swim team. Tyler took a karate class(forgot to take a picture). They all enjoyed their classes and they kept us busy, but I am glad they are over now. I can finally sleep in and get some of the house work done. 

When Travis leaves for work, the kids try to stop him!

Hunter did really well this year. He got a lot of ribbons. He also was able to compete in the 100 yard IM (every stroke across the pool in one race.) He got third. I was so proud of him. That is a lot of swimming!

Of course we have spent time at the cabin. 

 Weston loves to tease. He was attacking all the girls in the sunflower room. Lance even joined in the fun.

My cuz Anna put together Minute to win it games. The kids all had a blast with this one.

 We had to have our Red Neck Pinata!

Hunter's 9th Birthday

Monday was Hunter's 9th birthday. Where does the time go? Instead of doing a party I let him go to the game store and pick out some video games. He was happy to get new games and I was happy to not have to put together a big party!! Win Win! Hunter got to have his favorite meals for the day. Breakfast was eggs and sausages, Lunch chicken nuggets and Dinner biscuits and gravy. We had cake and ice cream at the cabin over the weekend with my family. Then we had dinner on his actual bday with Travis's family. Too bad we didn't make it to 7-11 for a free Slurpee, but we did get our free dozen krispy kreme!