Kayaking at the Jensen's house

Our neighborhood has a lot of lakes and our friends happen to live on one. The girls like to go over to their house and practice their kayaking skills It's fun to watch them try to navigate around the little lake. It takes lots of teamwork and a little bit of balance when they are getting in and out.

Visitors

My friend Kelli came last weekend with her little boy Dillan. I have know her since kindergarten and she is part of my Vegas crew that I have grown up with and stay very close to. Her little boy is 4 and the girls had so much fun with him. It was strange to have a little boy in the house! Kelli and I spent Saturday shopping and eating. Doesn't get much better than that!
They wore themselves out. This is how they looked when we got home.

Let's Play Doctor

Carli decided that Mojo was sick and needed a little extra TLC. She got out her vet kit and Mojo was a great sport to go along with it.

Back to School

The girls started school last week. I was nervous putting Lindsey and Carli on the bus in the morning as they have never ridden the bus to school. Sydnee leaves quite early and she has been so good about getting up. The first day of school she accidentally went to the 8th grade lunch for a bit and also she went to the wrong class! She got all of the logistics worked out on day 2. She has practice or a game every day and on game days that are away she has a 12 hour day! Lindsey came home from school so excited. She loved it and thinks it is the greatest thing that she gets a locker. Carli didn't have too much to say except that she thought it was fun. I'm feeling like I can get some more organizing done now that they are back in school. My house is really quiet but it does stay clean all day!



This is how Mojo looks every morning when we are waiting for the bus. He is sad that all of the excitement is gone for 8 hours a day.

Sydnee - putting the finishing touches on her back to school look!
Waiting for the bus with Katie and Allison.
I took a picture of this to remember how beautiful the weather was. Actually a little chilly and fall like temperatures. Quite a difference from late in July or early August in AZ. I wasn't worried about the heat! I was more worried that Carli would be cold without a sweatshirt.

Weather

I have to document how great this weather has been because I know when winter rolls around I am going to be hating it. Sydnee just told me it is too cold to go out and lay on the hammock! We are such wimps - it's seventy three degrees and getting ready to storm. Very breezy and so beautiful outside. I can hear all of the leaves rustling, my windows are open, my house smells like rain, and it is just gorgeous here! I just need to document so I can get through the winter. We missed Spring here, we haven't been through a Fall yet but I'm sure it will be beautiful, and Summer is great. Just a handful of too humid days. At night when Del get's home from work we go out on our back porch and I usually have a blanket. He is a little worried about me in the Winter if I'm wrapped in a blanket in August.

Carli and Mojo

Carli and Mojo are close...sometimes I think too close! Bedtime is not a good time for Carli. She hates going to bed in her own room so she tries to fall asleep other places. Sometimes it's her sister's beds, my bed, the couch, or wherever. The other night we were watching the Olympics in my room and Mojo's bed is in the corner. She laid down on it (which I think is kinda gross but whatever) and fell asleep. You can tell in the pictures that Mojo was bugged! She was smashing him and he couldn't really get comfortable. He finally squeezed out from underneath her and went and laid on the floor. Then he got up and stood by her looking at me and then at her. I'm sure he was wondering if he was going to get his bed back. I finally put her in bed and we all slept great!

Lemonade 4 Sale

Lindsey and Carli decided to have a lemonade sale. They didn't do very well because it was only about 75 degrees. I think they made about 5 bucks but they sure had fun!

Happy News

Sydnee has been trying out for the 7th grade volleyball team for the last three days and found out today she made it! Yeah! We are so so so proud of her. She really worked hard practicing her serves. We went to Atlanta last week and Del and Marci have a racquetball court at their house. We played wallyball everyday and she was able to practice hitting a lot. I purposely didn't put my make up on this morning knowing that I would probably have tears either way! My stomach was in knots because I knew how bad she wanted to make it. I'm so excited f or her because it will make it easier going to a new school. She starts practice next week at 8:00 so I guess we will have some help getting back on a morning schedule! School starts in a couple of weeks here.

Cousins

The girls are having so much fun with all of their cousins. We haven't seen Reed and Andrea's kids for about 9 months and it's been a few months since we've seen Jon and Courtney's kids. They were having lots of fun last night and I snapped a quick picture.

Road Trip

We are on our way down to Atlanta right now in the motorhome. I am so mad that I forgot my cord to put pics from my camera onto my blog so I will have to post pictures later. Del is happily driving us while the kids' music is blasting. They are making a dance up at the moment. Pretty cool that a 12 hour drive can turn into a dance party. We left our house last night when Del got home from work and drove until he was tired. We stopped to sleep at a Wal-Mart parking lot because they allow overnight parking for RV's for one night. This is our first family trip in the motorhome and so far so good! The kids are definitely entertained. They have been playing the Wii, making cards for their cousins, and of course dancing. We brought Mojo because we didn't have anyone to leave him with. I think he figures since he has logged more hours in the motorhome with Del (their long drive out from AZ to OH) he should sit in the front seat instead of me. Everytime I get up he immediately jumps up into my chair! I found a Barnes and Noble to pick up the book 'Breaking Dawn' that just came out today which I'm excited to read. I love having a good book to look forward to on a road trip!