Ready Confetti

 Tonight we had some extra kiddos so "back to school dinner night" was a little bit crazy.  We had homemade mac n cheese and salad.  At Stetson's back to school night the teacher gave each student a surprise bag and a note to read the night before school.  The surprise was "ready confetti" and a cute poem about putting it under your pillow so you won't be nervous for the first day. :)  Stetson read the whole letter to us.  Can't believe I'm going to have a 1st grader tomorrow.

last day of summer

 I have bittersweet feelings about this day, but mostly sweet.  I am ready for school to start, but its funny because at Stetson's back to school night at his new school I kind of wanted to cry.  We're thrilled about his teacher.  This is her 33rd  (and last) year of teaching and she seems great.  Kandace also got to go see her preschool at the YMCA last night.  Should be a fun year!  Oh, and for the last day of summer we went to the mall, came home for lunch and made homemade icecream.    It was on our list of 85 things to do this summer. We're about 80% done with the list, we might have to make an extension.  Later tonight our house will officially be the crazy house when we are joined by a 4, 2 and 1 year old for temple night.  Let the good times roll.

 And what good would homemade icecream be without a human pyramid (sort of) afterwards??

camping 2013

 We went camping again this year--2nd time since we've been married.  Its a ton of work with the littles, and one day we'd love to have a camper to stay warmer at night, we we made great memories and I think the kids loved it.  One last hoorah for the summer vacation which ends next Wed for our family.  We drove to Lovell Tuesday, stopped at my dads and Asays for a couple last minute things and got there around evening.  We had hotdogs and went on a little walk.  That night all the kids slept AWESOME.  We laid them down about 9 and like 30 minutes later they were all out.  The next morning we had lamb sausage, eggs and pancakes for breakfast.  Michael took the 2 older ones to fish while Janelle and I stayed at camp and kept the fire going.  For lunch we ate the fish Michael and the kids caught and at 3:30 we met dad and did some more fishing.  My camera died while were up there so not as many pics as I wanted.  After round 2 of fishing we went back to camp and had dinner with gpa Simmons--hamburgers, pasta salad, fish and s'mores for dessert.  Wed night at around 11, Janelle woke up in a made rage and had decided she did not want to be camping anymore.  Michael had to drive her around until she finally conked out so they spent the night in the truck.  We left camp Thur morning at 10, spent the rest of the day at Asays (yay for showers) and then the kids and I headed for Billings about 8:30 so they'd sleep on the drive home, which they DID and I was so glad.