Week #1

Wow! I mean it wow!! What a week it has been. We started school head on Monday morning. I'm so tired and it went by so fast. We've been so busy and the children were pretty good considering they had to do school work two days before most of their friends. I love the school time routine though. I feel more put together during this time and oddly enough my house has actually been cleaner this week than most of the summer.
My brain has been going full board too. It felt so good today to go out in the yard and pull weeds and water my garden. I love having a yard. It has become one of my greatest release times. I also enjoy it because it is one of the things that my husband and I like to do together. My husband is a fabulous landscape designer considering he has to incorporate all of my "wants" into the picture. The weeds are never ending but so is my stress so it's probably a good thing . . . in the greater scheme of things.
My other great stress re leaver is scrap booking. Crystal was so nice to come over until 1:30am last night to "play", and my ever amazing husband was good to take care of the kiddos while we worked. (Kids night out and City Hall was a great idea!)
Well, one week down and 35 to go! It's going to be fabulous!!

Year #4, Here We Go!

Today was the first day of our 4th year homeschooling and I must say that I'm so excited! I love the routine and the time with my children. Of course the only glitch today was that I ran out of ink in my printer! (yea, disaster!) It turned out great judging by how quickly the day flew by!

Afton's Kindergarten Books

These are books that I made for Afton that we'll be working on this year. Glad I finally put that binding machine to use that I bought last year. It's been a lot of fun and I'm really getting excited for the school year to start again. I just have a few more books to buy, but then there are always more books that I could buy.

Summiteer

As part of the Santaquin Days activities, Dennis put together the first ever Santaquin City Summiteer Mountain Bike Race. Dennis put a lot of time and effort into getting this thing going. He designed the T-shirts, found sponsors and donations, mapped out the race, and got every thing going, even rode the course 2 or 3 times over the past weeks. There were 20 participants this year from ages 5 to 51. Both Jacob and Isaac participated in the beginners course. It was very hot but they did a great job!!
We had a little drama just 1.5 hours before we had to be there when Jacob's bike got another flat. The night before Dennis fixed Jacob's tire(for the 3rd time this year, darn sticker weeds). Well I ran up to Stringhams and bought a tubeless tire and our neighbor put it on for him. We made it in plenty of time and everything went well.