Friday, August 24, 2007

Back to School? Wha...!?!?

I received a back-to-school email from our principal today. I am still in denial that our summer is soon coming to a close. Hard to believe that in other parts of the country kids have already started school.

Yumi has gone without incident since our homecoming on July 30. We are so thankful to the Lord for every healthy day! She is making up for all the lost time by spending lots of time with TJ and the donkeys, Slick and Samantha. I have to say that I never thought donkeys could be so cute, but really, it is in their personality. It is so sweet to see Yumi sitting down on the ground and the two donkeys with their heads so close to her and just staying still! It's like they just want to breathe her in and be close to her and get some "loves". Yumi has been getting her fair share of exercise as she chases them around with a chair. This is the only way Slick will run. He's not afraid of the ball like Samantha is!

It's fun to start planning the year with our youngest, Everett now going off to Kindergarten. I am yet undecided on my work schedule. I have really enjoyed the time off! I'm even having a garage sale this weekend! The kids will operate the snack and pop table as I run around at the last minute trying to price things, since I have procrastinated that task! I am so anxious about tomorrow that I can't even sleep. I have a million things running through my head of what I have to do in the morning, the least of which is exercising at 7 am, and I can't even close my eyes. Which explains this late-night post. And my rambling on. And my posting comments to other blogs of family members...

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Vacation Update

Greetings from Boise! We are having a blast here and not looking forward to the long ride home tomorrow. We spent all of yesterday and part of today at Roaring Springs. It was a fun day with a high of 99 degrees! The water felt great.

Before we went to the water park we went over to Cabellas. We really like that store and are looking forward to having one in Lacey. It really will draw a lot of people to town, though.

We plan to go home the same way we came so that we can stop by the Darigold and take a cheese factory tour. We have been to the Tillamook one only once and it will be fun to see how the Darigold compares. I'll be sad to see this vacation end. It seems like summer just started...

Sunday, August 12, 2007

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N . . . Finally!

Just a quick post for any who might still be following this blog. We are finally venturing out on a short vacation. We are leaving this morning for Boise, ID. There is a great water park that we have gone to for the last couple of years. We like to go where it's hot and enjoy the sun! We will be back Wednesday night. Only staying 3 nights in the Holiday Inn Express there. Other than that, we'll be traveling! It's about a 10-hour drive. We're stopping in Yakima to pick up Everett first, though, as my folks took him camping this weekend. I bet he'll be tired!