Family Reunion

I could make this a very long post with all of the pictures that I have, but in an attempt to keep this simple I will just touch on the highlights of our reunion.

This past week we had a family reunion at Camp Rimrock here in South Dakota. We rent out a church camp all to ourselves, which includes a large lodge and 10 or so cabins. The lodge has a large kitchen and part of the fun is planning and cooking the meals together. What else do we do at our reunions?


We sit around and chat with brothers, cousins, and other relatives that we have not seen in, well way too long.




When the temperature rises the best thing to do is...

Play in the water and float down the river!!



Reunions are for...
playing games and making crafts!!!





We end our family reunions with a dance. Everyone always has so much fun making a fool of themselves that no one cares how much of fool they are being.













It was so much fun and I can't wait until we have our next reunion. See you all in 2011!!!

Tooth Fairy

So my baby girls is growing up. She lost her first tooth and was so excited because to her it marked a major mile stone. She could not wait to show everyone who would pay attention long enough for her to tell them and show them. Then just six days later she lost another tooth. An hour later Jess lost one as well. I think that the tooth fairy is going to go broke with all of the teeth that are coming out in this house.


Abbi looks so cute with her two top teeth missing, it cracks me up everytime she smiles at me.

String Retreat

So as most of you know John plays the violin and loves it. He had the opportunity to go to a week long orchestra camp and had so much fun. It would be boring to me to sit in classes learning to play an instrument for hours at a time, but music is something that he loves and is very good at. We took him to the camp early on the morning of the 27th of July and did not see him again until the night of his concert on the 31st. The concerts that we listened to that night amazing, especially considering the kids only had five days to learn them.

No Excuses!!!

So the last time I wrote a post was right after the kids birthday's and now here it is the beginning of August. I do not know where the time has gone. We have had a great summer so far and look forward to this last month before the kids start school the 1st of Sept. In order to keep this post from being a novel I am going to post some pictures highlighting our summer so far. I promise to be better about posting on a more regular basis once things calm down. Oh, wait my life does not know any other pace than fast speed. I guess I am just going to have to be more faithful about keeping my post up to date.