Mornings with Linq

The first few days the kids went back to school, this little guy wasn't quite sure what to do with himself.  More than once I found him dead asleep on the living room floor.  I also caught him being naughty -Peeing on the front porch 😆 you know when you live in the country when your kid would rather pee outside than in, but ON the front porch is crossing the line, ha ha.

He looks forward to Lytzi getting home so he can have someone to play with. One day they went out to play in the puddles and before I knew it he was stripped naked cause he had to go pee and didn't like his wet pants -all of this happening as a bunch of the power guys (including Legrand's boss) were driving by😲

He was really excited when LeGrand stopped by one morning with the backhoe to give him a ride.  As you can tell by most of the pictures, he would rather stay in his PJ's than get dressed most days and I figure if we aren't going anywhere, what the heck! 

He came knocking at the back door and wanted me to take a picture of this cool rock he had found :)

First day of School 2018

For the first time, in maybe ever, I really wasn't ready for summer to be over.  We had such a fun summer making memories that I just wanted it to keep going --except for the fact that I was happy to get back to some type of routine.

Crazy that I now how 3 out of the 4 kids in school --I remember the days when I couldn't imagine that this time in my life would ever come as I was buried in diapers and bottles and sleepless nights.  Now I'm sad that it's already here, time really does move too fast.

Lytzi only has half day kindergarten so Linq and I have been walking to pick her up when she gets home at Noon.

 She has to have a picture of her Backpack and shoes :)

 They don't love walking to the bus, but it's good for them :)  Plus, soon enough the weather will be so crappy that I'll have to drive them, so I told them as long as it's warm they can walk.  I love looking out and seeing the three of them headed to the bus.

When we go to get Lytzi, Linq has been riding his strider bike.  It cracks me up cause he doesn't even really put his bum on the seat so basically he's walking his bike.  I ask him repeatedly if he doesn't want to just leave his bike on the side of the road and we'll come back and get it and he never does.  He as really come to love this bike.  The first week the kids were back at school he has been outside playing a while and I went to check on him, couldn't find him anywhere.  Luckily LeGrand was home so we went hunting for him.  We found him clear down on the little hill by the surge tank, on his bike.  I asked him what he was doing (while lecturing him about how he can't leave the house and go that far away by himself) and he said, 'Mom, I just wanted to go on a trip'.  Funny kid!

Couver getting Lytzi off the bus!

Real SL Date night

LeGrand won a charity auction through his work and we got to go to a Real SL Soccer game and sit in the owners box.  It made for a long evening to drive down and back just for the game but it was a fun getaway and we had a great time!

Berry Picking + Last summer Hoorah

A friend invited us to come pick her raspberries, she was done with them and just looking for other people to pick --the kids loved shoving them in their mouth as fast as they could pick them :)

 The 9th of August (last Thursday before school started) we met some friends for a day at Bear lake, I have been trying to get there all summer but we've been so busy that we never made it. I was happy we at least got to go once, and the day was perfect.  The kids had a blast!

 I made Laexin start blowing up the toys on the way so it wouldn't take forever when we got there...they completely covered everyone up, ha ha.

The rest of Fair week!

Wednesday of Fair week is Kids day.  The two girls were in the Chalk Art coloring contest and Loa ended up winning first place with her 'King Dragon'!

Then the kids were in the kids parade.  Lytzi was a princess riding a Unicorn, and the other three were a scarecrow (Loa) and a Farmer (Laexin) with his pig (Linq)

They also had a visit by the princesses, so of course we had to go see :)  Lytzi was in heaven!

 She had to get pictures by all of them, along with her little friend Ivy!

I helped decorate this area of the fair building --I made all of the mushrooms and butterflies.  Had to get a picture of the kids with it!

 LeGrand couldn't be left out of pictures with the princesses, ha ha!

We were lucky enough to get a date night out of Rodeo night! And of course we had yummy berries and cream.

Saturday we enjoyed the grand parade, and a night at the Monster Trucks!