The State Fair

Over the Labor Day weekend we went to the South Dakota State Fair. The kids were excited to stay in the camper two nights with Grandma and Grandpa. Even cousin Brynn came to stay one night. We did rides, fair food, and all the animal barns. Saturday night we went to The Band Perry concert with the family. It was an awesome concert!

Evie and Brynn were good ride buddies

Brynn's best friend and her baby sis showed up too

Waiting for The Band Perry. It was hot outside!

Evie's First Day of Preschool

The day has finally arrived! She has been waiting a long time for this day.
She was so excited to start her 3-year-old PreK with Mrs. Bruns as her teacher. She has 8 classmates including her good friends, Gigi and Kayleigh.

Will was pretty proud of Evie

Evie has her good friend, Gigi, in class. These two always gives hugs when they see each other.

First Day of Kindergarten

Will had his first day of Kindergarten yesterday! He is attending Roncalli Primary School. The night before school, we attended his open house where we met his teacher, Mrs. Miller, and got to see his spot at the table and his cubbie in the hallway.

At the open house, seated in his spot

The past couple of days, he hadn't been acting like himself. So before bed we asked him if he was nervous or scared about anything. He said he was scared about all the new kids at school. (Mommy felt pretty sad after hearing this).

But the next morning he was excited and ready to go! Evie and I dropped him off inside the gym (that's where drop off is before school starts). He found a couple of friends that he played Tball with. And one of the boys, Eli, was wearing the same shoes as Will. So life was good. I got a big smile, hug and kiss. Evie and I did pretty good for our first day together. I missed him alot during the day. I was anxious to see him. Evie, well, I think she is enjoying the one-on-one time right now. Not so much missing her brother. ;)
For pick up, DH was home from work and went with us. He was all smiles and hugs when he spotted us out front of the school. He said school was good. He got to eat lunch with fifty kids! :)

The End of Summer

Here we are, half way through August. Next week Will starts Kindergarten!

We have kept very busy in August.

We started the month off by camping with Grandma and Grandpa at Storybook Land. Brynn stayed the two nights in the camper too. They had so much with just the camper itself! But rode their bikes, went to parks, played at Storybook Land several times, and had campfires. They sure kept busy!

A Quick trip to Vegas: sun, food and shows

My county fair girl:

Tall enough to go by herself

Their first fair ribbons! The scare crow is Will's, Evie's is the dragonfly

Gary Allen concert with Jill, Chris, and Colleen

July

I know I have taken a little hiatus from blogging, but it isn't because we haven't been busy.

Here's a little recap of the rest of July:

- we stayed in Sioux Falls for Will's yearly check-up with our Peds GI doc and timed the appointment with a golf tourney for DH too. Will had an esophagram done and everything looks great!


 Here are some pics from July.

The Lake and a Birthday

On Friday our sweet neighbors invited us to their new lake home on Pickerel Lake. It is an hour drive from our house. But a beautiful lake. DH got done with work at noon and we headed out to spend the rest of the day enjoying the hot and calm weather. The was Will's second experience at a lake and Evie's first. Both of them loved it! We played in the water, rode a jetski, went tubing, and did lots of boat rides.

Evie, Brooklyn, Mitchell and Will

Ready for a tube ride

Evie and Marwin driving the boat

Marwin pulling Will and Mitchell

Evie and Brooklyn's turn. Evie liked it!

On Saturday Will had a birthday party for a preschool friend in the afternoon and then that evening we went to Tulare to celebrate our nephew, Asher's, first birthday. He is the cutest little boy - and all boy! Loves anything with wheels and farm animals.

Will cheering up Asher with peek-a-boo

Asher's smash cake.

Will giving Asher a ride in his new truck from Grandma and Grandpa. Asher loved it!

Fourth Of July Weekend

We started off our holiday weekend with a trip to the Children's Museum in Brookings. DH was on call for the whole weekend. But the kids and I had a free day. And that has been very rare so far this summer! So we took advantage of the day off and had a great time. In the summer there are so many more activities for the kids to enjoy: fishing, panning for gold in a stream, jumping around water fountains, visiting the big dinos, and digging for dino bones.

On the Fourth, the kids and I drove to Redfield for the parade in the morning, followed by bouncy houses and food in the park, then free swimming at their public pool. We drove back to Aberdeen in the afternoon and a few hours of down time before we went over to our neighbors house for more swimming, food and the big fireworks display they put on. It was a great day with great, hot weather! Sunday we lounged in the morning and then went to our friend's pool in our neighborhood in the afternoon. DH had a busy weekend, but was able to be with us for some of the weekend.

Will wasn't afraid of sparklers this year

Ready for the parade!

Asher's first parade

The crew in our usual spot

small town Americana parade featuring a cow in a truck

Uncle Scott and Grandpa jumped into the parade when a car stalled

Camping with Friends

On Thursday night some of our friends rented little cabins at Wylie Park. This park is just across from Storybook Land. DH was on call this night so I didn't feel like staying overnight in a small cabin with twin bunk-beds all by myself and the kids. We went out and ate with everyone, did smores, and some sparklers: then slept in our own beds. The kids all played so well together! They had a lot of fun. I think we are going to make this a summer event every year.

Grilled hotdogs and brats for everyone

On the way to the park

The best group picture we got

Evie's first sparkler. She did really well.

Will's first sparkler. Last year he didn't like fireworks.

Evie's First Big Screen Movie

We took Evie to her first movie in a movie theater. She did really well! It took two bags of popcorn, pop, twizzlers, and two potty breaks. But we made it through the movie. Inside Out was a cute movie. Will really liked it too.

Tee Ball

 

Will is playing tee ball this summer. He plays Monday - Thursday for an hour with games on Tuesdays and Thursdays. His team is called the Royals. The team is made up of future Roncalli Kindergarteners. He enjoys it and enjoys meeting his new classmates this summer before school.

Bunnies

A few weekends ago the kids and I went down to the farm for the day. Grandma was put on bunny feeding duty by our neighbor farm. The kids had so much fun feeding and holding the bunnies.