Back to School can you Belive it!

I can't believe it but Chase started school this week. It is just crazy that summer is already gone and Chase is back in school and Forrest is counting down the days to hunting season. The only good thing about hunting season is Rashelle and the kids come to stay on the weekends so I get to see her more. More Pics and fun stuff to come!

1st day of 2nd Grade!

I was told I had to take a pic of the backpack

Summer Milestones

Chase lost his first top tooth the last day of school.

This one is just funny I had to share it! :)

BEFORE

The crooked chipmunk look. 2 days before school started

AFTER!!!

Pics from the midwest

Chase in front of the cabin that we stayed at in Keo

On the Bridge over the Des Moines River

Chase on the river bridge

Lonna and Kerri at Kaleidoscope in KC

Kaylee and Chase at Fritzs

Chase in front of the train at Fritzs

Chase and his new Build-o-dino "Toothy"

Toothy hanging out and Dave and Busters

Trip to the Midwest

So this summer we took our normal week off and headed for IA to visit Grandma Lonna and Mark. They moved to their "retirement cabin" last fall so we had to go and extra 1.5 hours more down the road to Keosauqua IA. Forrest was able to join us this year it was nice to have him along he had not been out in 3 years. It was way hotter this year than it had ever been before. The average temp while we were there was 100 and the humidity was high as well so we did a lot of inside things this time unlike most times. We visited a few Amish stores those are my favorite. We also went over to Kansas City for a couple of days to spend time with Kerri. Forrest had never meet her husband Dave to we all had a great time got to do some fun things in KC and had a pool party at Kerri's as well. Lots of fun was had by all and as always we didn't want to come home. Here some of my favorite pics along the way.

Fun with cousins

Mark and Rachel driving the car with 2 steering wheels...lol

Chase, Carly and Joseph right after they finished building their "house"

So July was a busy month for us a week before we went to IA my sister Melissa that lives in IN was here for a week for a family wedding on John's side of the family so we went to Salt Lake City for the day Mark and Rachel recently moved there so it was nice to see where they are living and it was nice to have family there again makes it easier to go and visit. Well we took all the kids to the Gateway Discovery Museum. The kids had lots of fun and then we went and had a picnic it was fun and the kids had a great time playing together.