Ahhhhh September!!

September has brought a lot of changes and excitement at our house.  On the 2nd Camden started 1st grade.  He is so excited to be a Bear!  He loves his teacher and the best part is that we go Monday thru Thursday!  We get Fridays off and we are loving it!  Britton also started pre-school.  On Thursday he rode a pony.  He loves going to school at a 5 star dude ranch!  Who wouldn't!   Maybe I should go to pre-school and he can stay home.

It has been nice to have time to play with Braden & Peyton with the older boys in school.  I just wish there was a Costco or real mall around to go with just 2 kids instead of 4... some day....

After the First day of School we went up to Rocky Mountain National Park and floated a zucchini and watermelon boat.  Do you have any guesses which one won??  Actually the watermelon won because the zucchini was caught under some brushes.  The boys had tons of fun floating them.  Thank you Grandma Burns for supplying the zucchini and Dave for the Watermelon!

A park ranger actually came up to us and asked us to move our car back to the parking lot. I thought she was going to ask us to remove our paper pirates and flags, but she was very nice and chatted and watched the boys float their boats.  So fun!  Who else has the National Park 15 minutes away?  We have also been up a few more times since then to see the elk!  Camden loves hanging out the window with his elk bugle, the elk look on over and see this bug suburban instead of an elk!

Over Labor Day we went up to Bear Lake to play with cousins and enjoy family.  After church we took a picture of the kids in front of Grandpa Stucki's house.  We love playing with cousins.. I do have to say that we have a cute bunch of cousins that play soooo well together.  

On Saturday we played on our big blowup waterslide instead of the Lake, it was supposed to be windy and all the kids are small!  So later on we were thinking that it would have been fun to go out on the boat... but do you think with 3 SUVs, did anyone bring a hitch???  nope!  Uncle Dave did come up later on with his family and we were going to go out on Monday.. okay can you say rain!  it poured Sunday night and Monday.  We left Idaho at 10am and we had snow in Wyoming!!! Once we got down into Colorado it was beautiful.  We loved our little summer vacation.  See you on Memorial Day!

As I sit here typing away... Andrew has left me for the Big One!!!!!  

Mike (Andrew's dad's friend) drew out on the big elk this year.  So of course Andrew needs to go out and help find the 'big one'.   Who would have known that 5 men need to go out and help find that one Elk.... I can't imagine how many woman need to go out and hunt down that perfect sweater that I need this winter.. maybe I need to get some girls together to go hunting!  You can't tell that I am frustrated sitting at home with 4 little crazies for 3 weekends in 1 1/2 months!  Actually he probably does need a break.. he has been working hard!  

Ahhhhhh September.. now that I have posted a blog, i don't feel guilty and I will start to read everyone's blogs again... I couldn't bring myself to read when I hadn't posted myself..