Labor Day Weekend

    For Labor Day weekend we decided to spend it in Arbon, Zach helping with harvest and us girls partying it up with cousins!

Friday

    Grandma JoAnn's birthday!  Zach, the girls and I, Heather, Libby, Justice and Hanna all headed to Arbon to spend the night with Grandma JoAnn on her birthday.  Jessica brought her crew over and we celebrated with pizza and cupcakes (thanks to Jessica)!  We also decided to play outside games in the dark.  Us adults joined in the games and even the teenagers : ).  We played some No Bears Are Out Tonight, Red Rover and Duck, Duck, Goose.  Us adults quickly learned we aren't as young as we use to be but we all still had fun!  Kabree thought the best part of the night was that she got to sleep with Aunt Sissy and Justice in the big bed!

Saturday

    Heather and I quickly helped Grandma clean up a few things before we headed down to the Arbon school playground with Jessica and her kiddos.  Katie was babysitting so she brought the kids she was watching along too.  Jessica brought as many things with wheels that would fit in her van and the kids had a ball.  The roller skated, rode scooters, bikes and ripstiks, tried out the ziggle, and Keagan loved the shopping cart Jessica brought.  She loved running like a mad woman around the playground.  The kids loved playing on the play ground equipment too.  It was a great way to burn off lots of energy, for us adults too!

    After fun at the school we headed back to Jessicas for a taco lunch and more cousin play time at Jessicas.  After our naps Kooper took the girls and Justice down to feed and water Captain Jack and Paint Ball and a little fun on the horse walker.  Kabree and Justice loved grabbing on to the ropes and swinging around.  However, poor Kab caught the buckle end of one of the ropes in the eye and blacked her eye : (.  There were a few tears but not enough she wanted to stop!  

    Heather and I took Kabree, Keagan, Justice and Libby in the Rhino for a ride to Laurie Calls for a quick visit before Heather had to head home.  The kids loved playing with there kittens and were ready for the tub and bed after that.

 Kabree taking a spin on the scooter

 Kabree and Justice on the teeter totter

 Keagan pushing her shopping cart

 Kabree, Justice and Wade on the merry-go-round

 Morgan on the ziggle

 Kooper and Morgan showing off their skills on the ripstiks

 Keagan and Katie trying out the slide

Keagan wanted to try out the teeter totter with Aunt Heather 

Kabree catching some air on the teeter totter 

Jessica and Makenna 

Morgan and Keakea swinging 

Mommy and Keagan swinging 

Kooper, Morgan, Keagan and Wyatt playing in the sand 

Kooper, Justice and Kabree raking the lawn

Going for a ride on the horse walker 

Showing off her shinner 

Kooper, Keagan, J.T., Justice, Kabree and Erica

Sunday

    We headed to church without Grandpa who is still on bed rest for his leg and Grandma who wore herself out canning all day Saturday.  After church we had Sunday dinner with Shawns family and then enjoyed a Sunday afternoon nap.  Zach grilled us up some stakes for dinner and we got to visit with Jessi's Aunt Linda and Uncle Ken, Larin and Jessica while the kids watched a movie in the living room (Thanks Kooper for the idea and for starting it ;).

Monday

    We started off the day with Larin's kiddos coming over to play the Wii at Grandma's house.  The girls and I enjoyed a quite lunch with Grandpa and Grandma and a Barbie movie (per Keagan's request).  After quite time we headed back down to the horse walker for some more fun with cousins.    This time the kids got out the water and water trough.  Kooper decided he was Tarzan swinging into the trough and the other kids quickly followed suite.  Keagan stuck to the mud and sand and thought that hosing down the other kids was the best thing on Earth.  Kooper was a great sport and took the brunt of Keagan's hosing people down!  Kabree had a blast playing with Kooper, Mattie and Morgan on the ropes and in the trough.  She even took a turn swinging into the trough.  She made it in and back out all by herself!!!! She said it was fun but she wasn't going to try that again!

 Kooper showing us how it's done

Morgan 

Kabree and Keagan getting the sand nice and wet 

Katie 

Jessica and Makenna 

Keagan hosing off Kooper 

Sometimes they didn't make it into the trough...I don't think they minded

    We had a great weekend with family and are so grateful our girls have the best cousins ever!

1st Day of Kindergarten

Showing our sign language "K" for Kindergarten

Keagan wanted to be in the picture too!

    Our Little Miss Kabree isn't so little anymore!  Kabree had her first day of Kindergarten.  She got Ms. Haber for her teacher and has two of her little friends in her class; Trey and Beck.  Kabree knew exactly what she wanted to wear for her first day "purple pants and a shirt with a necklace" and luckily we found both (and on clearance too)! There were a lot of tears and luckily none from Kabree (that morning anyways).  Kabree was a bit nervous but didn't shed a single tear at drop off.  Mommy's eyes filled up but made it out into the hall before they fell but the biggest surprise of all was Keagan!  She was devastated!  Keagan sobbed and sobbed all day long "Kabree not house, where's Kabree".  But all was well once afternoon came and we were all back together again.  Kabree loved her "pretty" teacher and that she got to eat lunch at school.  So here is to a great Kindergarten year!

Dancing In The Rain

Of coarse we had to practice our cheer jumps

Here is what 5 houses down our street looked like after the storm

notice the sidewalk is under water

    So in the last 2 weeks we have had flood warnings at least 6 different days for our area.  Funny enough every time we have had these warnings, though the rest of our street and our town get flooded pretty bad our house and neighbors have all drained well and never got the bulk of the storm.  However, today we didn't receive a flood warning and sure enough it poured at our house and for the first time this summer our sidewalk and flowerbeds backed up.  If you look close in the pictures you can see our sidewalk was like a mini river and our flowerbed filled all the way up.  

    Every single time it has poured like this Kabree has asked to go play in it and we usually say no but today we decided to let her have at it.  She would run, jump and twirl in all the puddles.  It was pretty cute and pictures could never do the crazy amount of rain or cuteness justice.  Our neighbors across the street even sat on their stairs and watched her dancing in the rain :)!

Island Park

 Feeding the fish at Big Springs

 Kabree took her bread throwing seriously

 We loved watching the Mommy duck with her babies!

Keagan decided she would rather eat the bread then feed it to the fish 

Ready to float the river

    I spent the week at girls camp in Island Park so Zach and the girls picked me up late Thursday night so we could have a quick family trip.  We stayed at Zach's uncle Brian's place in Island Park in Grandpa Gary's old camper.  The girls thought it was great to wake up there and eat breakfast.  We started off our day at Big Springs feeding the fish and watching the ducks.  Grandma Sally even joined  us there.  Then we headed off to float the river.  The girls were so excited, Grandma Sally helped us drop our suburban off at the end of the ride and she dropped us off at the boat launch.  We were on our way with only a few kinks.  About 200 yards down river we got stuck in sand so Zach and I got out to push the raft to deeper water, Zach decided to fill up the boat with a bit more air.  I decided I would rather sit up front so Zach got in the back and I decided it would be funny for me to jump in the front, even though Zach said "don't jump in".  Well I jumped and sure enough I  landed and sunk clear to the ground!  I popped the seal on the raft and the entire bottom of the raft went out!  I thought it was hilarious but both girls were screaming, thinking they were drowning and all of our stuff was floating down river!  Zach ran after it all and luckily was able to catch everything, while I still laughing grabbed what was left of our raft and the screaming Kabree and started headed back up river.  It wasn't the funnest walking back up stream but once we made it, and called Grandma Sally to come get us the girls and I played in the water.  The girls thought it was pretty fun regardless of what had happened.

    After Grandma Sally picked us up we ordered some pizza and headed back to the camper for a nap.  The girls had fun playing in the camper but were even more excited to take a ride in Uncle Brians' four-wheeler.  However, after we got about 2 minutes down the trail it started thunder and lighting and then of coarse pouring : ).  So we decided maybe we should call it a day and head to Aunt Sandra's for the night : ).

    The girls loved playing with Adam and Grover and Mommy enjoyed the nice hot shower and soft bed : ).  But the icing on the cake was that Saturday morning Aunt Sandra treated us to pancakes; Kabree's favorite.

    Even though nothing quit turned out how we had planned we still had fun and are glad we got to spend the weekend together and with family.