silly, strange children! :)

top picture below is of the 'older' boys watching the tail end of the Olympics...(notice the small t.v. on the outside of tim's motor home! way to rough it boys!! :)

ryan and devin making saturday morning mickey mouse pancakes!

that bullfrog that luuk is holding was as big as our cat! i'm NOT kidding! nasty.

sydney, hailey and claire...pretty girls...

a few last pictures of summer!! my smarty pants husband wasn't home to figure out how to fix my picture problem so i called my brother, brady who pulled through for me! (not that you couldn't have figured it out, honey, i know you could but you were working. :) ) thanks, B, for helping out your computer illiterate sister! :)

ok, sorta freaking out here!! STILL looking for all my last months pictures!!! i need my smarty pants husband to figure this out for me so check back in...Lord willing, tonight, the lost will be found!!!!!

before i added the back to school pictures, i probably should have posted some of our last days of summer fun pics! the last few weeks have been fairly relaxing. last weekend, rye and i took the boys to Seattle for a few days. we did the hotel 'pool thing' and even spent a day at the Northwest Trek animal farm in Pullaup. it's a cool sort of a zoo....you can take a tram and see animals in their own habitat!! much more rugged than an actual zoo. the boys loved it!!
our final camping trip of the year is always spent at the Lynden koa!! even though it's just a few miles from home, we LOVE it!!! some of us even came home to shower! :) we've been doing this trip for the past 5 or 6 years now with most of the same families. this year we actually stayed right on the lake so there was much more fishing/tad pole/muddy water than in years past! we are blessed to have such amazing friends!! thanks guys! can't wait til next year!!

end of summer...beginning of fall...

well, it's finally here! the freedom i've never experienced since having kids. ALL 3 boys started school today! some of you may be surprised about this BUT...no tears!! i even surprised myself! i said to jacks teacher that if i stayed or looked her in the eye, i'd loose it. so i BOLTED!!! none of the boys seemed to mind though, they hardly had the time to turn and wave. the seasons of life, i guess. as i sit here in my office, wondering what to do with my day, i'm reminded of how quickly life can pass us by. as much as i look forward to another chapter, i hope they don't grow up too fast!!! i'm so thankful for these 3 wonderful (and sometimes maddening) boys and i'm honored to be their mom! here's to a quiet house.....

what?? is that a tear??? :)