iwatch

 I was going through some photos and thinking that my kids like ipads, iphones, and ipods a little too much. ☺

Planting Our Lawn

 Hey, hey, hey...we actually got the lawn planted today.

 Now we just have to wait a week, hope the weather stays nice, and see if anything comes up. ☺

 The kids keeping busy. It seems like Britton is wearing that shirt everytime I take photos. I decided that it's very helpful to have him wear a bright color, so he wears it a lot.

 I was lamenting yesterday about the color on the trees changing already and Kenneth pointed out that it *IS* almost the end of September already. Good point. I guess it's okay that the leaves are changing and falling off already then.

 Colleen and Gerry just might be regretting that we are there neighbors at this point. Ella went over to there house about 20 times today and I'm not kidding. At some point Colleen gave the munchies a sucker probably hoping that they wouldn't bother her for a few minutes. ☺
I think Ella and Britton were missing Sharon and Crystal. ;)

After hydroseeding our lawn they moved over to Teresa's yard, but her lawn size is 8 x's as large as ours so we didn't stick around.

Rosh Chodesh/ Eve of Yom Teruah 2012

Monday night we observed the new moon on Black Mountain and that kicked off the start of the Fall feasts for us. Tuesday was Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) where the shofar is blown every hour. Next Thursday is Day of Atonement ( Yom Kippur) and then Sukkot (Tabernacles) is Oct 2-8.

 Looking, looking...

 It's been spotted, time to blow the shofar.

 Can you see it? There has been a lot of smoke in our landscape for the past week or so, so visibility wasn't so great, but atleast we saw it! ☺

 Ella makes me laugh.

Pathway

I wanted a pathway in the backyard off the patio, and we were originally talking about going the paver route, but since we're still buying brick for our boundary line between grass and flower beds, we decided to go with rocks that were already available to us.

 Cary hauled most of the rock and installed it all in one day!

 We still haven't planted lawn...hopefully soon as our time is running out.

Theoretically this pathway is supposed to make it so we use the back door more, but that hasn't happened yet. ☺
In other yard news: Cary finally trapped what was hopefully the last gopher! That stupid thing has been very elusive and Brad tried trapping it for us 3-4 times with no luck, but Cary finally got it.

Pretty Britty

 Getting in his car and waving bye!

I've been pretty bad about getting any pictures of the kids, I'm trying to be better about it.

Wheel-a-thon 2012

Tuesday was the Wheel-a-thon, which is a fundraising deal for the K-6 grades. (or the PAT?) Anyway, the kids get sponsored and set a price for every mile that they ride their bikes, and the K-2 grades can ride up to 8 miles, and the 3-6 graders can ride up to 16 miles.

I wasn't able to be there, so I stole these two photos from Janille. ☺ Ella had school that morning and then I took Ella and Britton over to Baker Hall where we helped put together the lunch that was for the riders and volunteers after the bike riding was all over.

Grades K-6.

Aidan said he only rode 6 miles but it turned out he rode the whole 8 miles! I was impressed since I wasn't sure how far he would actually make it on a bike with training wheels and all that.

After lunch was over we ended up spending the rest of the afternoon at the Baker school playground. The kids were having so much fun playing with Megan, Kayli, Caleb and Alyshia.

 This was after we got back home and he wanted to make sure I got a picture of the marks on his hand.

They make a mark on the hand for every mile they ride, and Aidan only had 6 marks which is why he thought he only rode 6 miles. ☺ He just apparently forgot to get his hand marked a couple of times.

17 weeks -ish