End of summer

August kicked off with a family road trip to see this cute girl's baptism.
Her mom made both of these beautiful baptism dresses.

These girls are so cute together.

We posed for some new grandkid pictures for Grams' wall.

Snug as a bug

Where's waldo?

The oldest

The girls

The littles

And the middle.
We all share this cute girl!

Squeezing in some piano practice.

Swimming!!!!

All the adults snuck away for an evening!

By the end of the meal, everyone from Kyler's side had excused themselves from the table.
What are you doing over there Kyler?

Good morning birthday boy!
This kid is five!

Opening some presents!

Caleb's bday also happened to be the first day of school.
So we went to the splashpad and got ice cream with all our homeschool friends.

It's ok.  We can have morning and evening ice cream!

Presents from Grammy.
Thank you Grammy!
(This Paw Patrol backpack has proven to be the favorite gift this year)

Birthday dinner.
He was so excited to get the blue soda!

And in case we haven't had enough sugar, here's the cake!
Happy birthday buddy!

Craig can't ever just work on one thing at a time.

Swimming with friends

Carter has been doing YM service projects.

And YM campouts.

Two spider-mans over here.
We are in pretty good hands.

Grammy always spoils us when we visit.

Not sure what's happening here; he might be pretending to drive.
That explains the grumpy face.

Celebrating two birthdays!

We got our firepit area set up just in time for a Labor Day bbq.

Just a friendly game of croquet while we wait for coals.

Swing batter batter.

Dinner time!

This kid loves corn.

Attempted a s'mores family picture, but two of them refused to cooperate.

Dancing around the fire.
Not the safest, but they survived.

It's way past my bedtime, but I have so much energy!!!

These boys slept hard after staying up so late.

Nice.

He probably didn't shift positions the whole night.

After sending Carter with the YM for a bike ride,
we decided his bike is looking a little small.

And he kept having stop and fix it.
Ok, maybe we had better start looking for the next one.

Co-op field trip to the fire station.
Caleb wants to be a fire fighter now.

Clear the road!

Can I turn on the siren?

Time for another birthday!
This girl is nine!

Make a wish!

Happy birthday JJ!

Jayden started volleyball.
She is loving it!

Just trying to get a selfie with the volleyball star.

Our garden made a tomato.
At least, it's supposed to be a tomato.

Wrestling with dad.

Caleb is doing a great job with his preschool!

Our kids are growing from squiggly caterpillars....

...to quiet cocoons...
(Wait, quiet? Did we miss this stage?)

.....to beautiful butterflies!

They've been fun to watch grow.
When we can catch them, that is.

Game night with the Anderson siblings.
Paige and Celene were murdered on the exact same spot.
Kyler, it's all up to you now.

Eye checkup time for Caleb.
They took his glasses and then left him with a movie.
He didn't see much of it XD

Checking out a model of the Mayflower.

Under Lafayette's command.

JJ's Grammy time.
Seeing some glass art.

Wow! They made that out of glass!

Visiting animals at the humane society.

And like 20 pony rides.

Thanks Grammy!!