School Projects

Alysha had to create a 3D wire sculpture with one continuous piece of wire for her art class. We tried to make a mushroom but the wire the school gave her would not hold it's shape. I helped her and we replaced the wire with one that worked much better. We quickly discovered that the mushroom was not going to work and started on this cute little bumble bee instead. It was a hit at the school.

Ashley's project was on the state of New York. We did a lot of research on population, climate, attractions and more. Then we were ready for the fun part of drawing the map and coloring it and gluing on all the information. It turned out great.

Next project - Owen's poster on the animal kingdoms all in Spanish, yay...

39th birthday

My birthday was the day after we got home from Coeur d'Alene. Alysha and I had school plus I had to go grocery shopping in between my classes. We went to the Texas Roadhouse for an early dinner which was super yummy and left extremely full. It was also Alysha's first night of class for Driver's Ed. I receive some really nice gifts from family. Mike and the kids picked me out a new backpack, a fleece jacket, chocolate and a couple items for my computer. I am very spoiled. :)

Quick trip to Coeur d'Alene for Talynn's baby shower

Wow, guess I"m farther behind than I thought. Just realized I haven't posted photos from Talynn's baby shower and our quick trip to Coeur d'Alene. Anyways, above is our oldest son Steven and his girlfriend Tree. They're about to have our first grand baby, Talynn. We drove up for their baby shower and we were happy to see all the baby items that they received. Now they are ready for whenever Talynn decides to arrive. We had fun taking them out to dinner and playing at the park.

Owen, Alysha and Ashley at our hotel with Talynn's presents from us.

Tree opening gifts at the shower with Steven, Trent and Misty

Mike putting the stroller we got them together

Steven and Tree

Kids at the candy shoppe

Girls in front of the candy shoppe window

Kids at Lake Coeur d'Alene

Owen, Steven, Mike, Ashley and Alysha

Alysha, Steven, Tree, Mike, Ashley and Owen

Back to School

Alysha was the first to go back to school on August 22. She is a Sophomore at Caldwell High School and is registered to start Driver's Ed the middle of September.

August 26th was Owen and Ashley's first day back to school at Heritage Community Charter. Owen a 3rd grader and Ashley a 5th graders. It was also my first day of classes at the College of Western Idaho.

Ashley and Owen in front of their school. It has been a busy couple of weeks getting everyone back on a schedule plus I've been buried in homework so we have not done much other than school stuff.

Sunset at Lake Lowell

Tuesday evening was the full moon so we went to Lake Lowell to watch the sunset and the moon rise. It made for some good photos.

Mike and Owen fishing

Ashley and her friend duck

Alysha at Lake Lowell

Stacy and Alysha from Alysha's app on her phone

Stacy, Ashley and Alysha from Alysha's app on her phone

Alysha, Ashley and the duck

Ashley, the duck and the moon

Pretty sunset

Mike and Owen fishing in the moon light.

Water fun on the way home.

On our drive home we decided to stop and jump off a dock to cool off. It felt so good after camping to wash off a little bit and cool down from the hot drive. We ended up with some fun photos too.

Aunt Shelley and Mariah

Alysha and Sarah

Me

Owen and Amanda

Sarah, Amanda and Alysha

Mike and Aunt Shelley

Mike and Owen

Sarah vs Alysha

Swamp Thing??

Amanda, Sarah, Mariah and Alysha

Amanda and Alysha pushing Sarah in

Richard and James looking to dry

Ashley and Aunt Kristey

Family Reunion at Antelope Campground

Those of us that could, got together at Antelope Camp Ground on the Sage Hen Reservoir for our annual family reunion. Above is a photo of some of the cousins, 14 out of 22. Most of the grown up cousins weren't able to make it this year. We all made it to camp on Friday. Kristey being the last to show up since Amanda started school already. She lucked out and saved her flat tire until she arrived which gave Mike and Richard something to do. The kids all had fun by the reservoir playing in the mud, water and catching frogs. We enjoyed yummy camp food and did some fun crafts. Aunt Carla's knotting and beading table was a big hit with everyone. Some of us went on a long hike around the reservoir while others fished or played in the raft and kayak in the water.  In the evening the kids all put on a show for us to enjoy. Then we had a fire to roast marshmallows and Twinkies. It was a fun weekend and we ended with a family group photo.

Shelley and Mike in Sweet, Idaho

Owen and Ashley

Sarah, Alysha and Ashley in Sweet, Idaho

Stacy putting signs up

Alysha and Landon at the camp site

Mike and Ruby

Alaina, Ashley, Layla and Owen

Alaina and Owen in the mud

Layla, Lexi, Sarah and Alysha in the water

Owen and a frog

Frogs

Ashley babysitting the frogs

Layla and Lexi in the mud

Alysha and Sarah

Mike and Layla

Aunt Shelley making dinner

Sarah and Alysha

Ashley moving in

Landon

Uncle Cliff helping with dinner

Aunt Carla cooking dinner

Mike carrying firewood

Owen and his pine cone people

Landon

Uncle Cliff and Aunt Carla setting up a tent

Alysha and Audrey

Aunt Kristey and the flat tire

Alysha and Sarah in the mud

Amanda in the mud

Alysha, Sarah and Amanda

James and Alaina

Lexi and Alyse by the fire

camp fire

Camp fire

Landon walking Shadow

Craft time

Decorating canvas bags

Mariah making a bracelet

Breakfast time

Uncle Cliff and James

The girls watching Mike blow up the raft

Owen and Mike

Amanda, Sarah and Alysha in the raft

Grandma Reva watching Audrey

Stacy in the kayak

Richard

Painting rocks

Alysha, Audrey and Amanda

Naptime

James and Richard

Alysha, Audrey and Owen

Family group photo