Kayla's Summer Trip to Our Home

 

I filled up some water balloons for the kids.

 

Kjerstin FINALLY got the balloon to break over Mya's head. It was a hard thing to squeeze that balloon hard enough to break.

 

Kjerstin had set up a tea party for Kehan and Mya.

My sister Kayla and her daughter Mya came up to visit Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Oddly enough I didn't really get any pictures of her but I did get some of Mya and our children. It was a nice visit and we hope we can have many more!

What a busy week it has been!

Ok so my lack of posting comes from being much busier than usual. I have been trying to clean out the garden, at least those plants that are no longer producing food. Canning what I can. I think I am done until my tomatoes really start to go crazy then I will do salsa and spaghetti sauce. But to top it all off I was called by a near by school to come and substitute for the first 2-3 weeks of school this year. So I have been busy preparing a classroom for second graders. The teacher I am filling in for though is great and she had a lot of stuff done before I got there. So on Tuesday school starts! Right now my sister Kayla is here for a visit over the long Labor Day weekend. Next weekend we are having the family birthday party for Kjerstin. Can you believe she will be 5? So it will once again be a very busy few weeks. Ah, you know the summer is ending when school starts. I just don't want it to end!

Birthdays Celebrated

 

 

 

 

While LeighAn and her kids were here we celebrated Dayton's and Kjerstin's birthdays, which, are both early Sept. Birthdays. LeighAn is Kjerstin's Godmother. It was pretty fun. Kjerstin got a Hannah Montanna shirt that mom always refused to by for her, so Auntie came to the rescue and got her one! What a lucky girl!

My Sister Came for a Visit

 

Dayton and Ashlyn. Ashlyn loved Dayton.

 

Dayton, Ashlyn, and Kehan on the trampoline.

 

Adam and Dayton dug hug holes at the lake and barried themselves inside the holes. Kjerstin had fun helping!

 

LeighAn and her oldest, Adam.

Here are a few pictures of my sister LeighAn's visit to our house in Mid August. The kids really had a blast together. It has been 3 years since she has been able to make it up so it was a very nice visit and it was great to have my nephews here for a while!

Ashlyn's Favorite Spot

 

 

Ashlyn has begun to love the bathroom sink. She is a climbing in every sense! I find her in the sink serveral times a day if the door has been left open for her. She climbs onto the toilet and then up on the counter and into the sink. During her bath one day I step out of the bathroom for maybe two minutes to see what Kjerstin and Kehan were bickering about in the next room and came back to find no baby in the bath tub. Yes, she was in the sink brushing her teeth! Last week during her bath which she was taking with Kehan I walked away to check on supper and started to hear the water running in the bathroom. I walked back to find her in the sink with the water running using the hand soap to wash! She is such a funny kid the things she gets into!

Michael Phelps

This has nothing to do with our family life but it is such an amazing accomplishment that I have nothing but respect for that I had to post about it.

Can you believe 16 Olympic medals 14 of them gold. 8 Olympic gold medals in one Olympic games, winning each race he entered. Eight for eight! Tonight was a night of history making. I am so glad I got to witness it live, thanks to modern technology. Now in years to come and I am watching the olympics with grandchildren I can pass on my own story of seeing history being made.

Mark Spitz said it best to Michael Phelps last night after tying his record of 7 Olympic gold medals in a single Olympic game. "You are epic".

What a legacy for United States Swimming to continue!

Congratulations Michael Phelps!

He loves the mother. Why not the children?

 

This is the puppy Blaze. He is the puppy who has killed 3 kittens this summer. This picture was taken this morning. Blaze has killed two of Cleo's kittens. Both of them black, one had the name Bear. Why he loves the mom and kills the kids I am not sure. I think he is just trying to play but in the end he kills them. I believe I should be named Kitten Defender of the Year. I have saved many kittens from certain death by Blaze this summer. Just today I probably took a kitten away 7-9 times. He just wont leave them alone.