Our house....

College life is rough apparently!  

I posted these photos on facebook, but since this is our family scrapbook, I wanted to save them!  Sunday evening, we took goats to the breeder.  We had some issues with the truck and the camper shell, which resulted in Jim loading them in his car.  The main thing is, they got there!  Luckily the breeder doesn't live very far and not down any major highways!  I am still giggling about it.  Riding in style.  For the record, the car has been cleaned and baking soda is now absorbing the last of the evidence!  

The weather has turned cooler and the September skies sure have been beautiful!  

All the kids getting dog piled.  Literally! 

Preston ran for student council.  His friend was his campaign manager and made him a sign.  His campaign manager may want to learn to use spell check!  The sign was sweet though!  Preston won the election and has promised "solid school change!"   

Since there has been cooler weather, we have started making fall and winter foods.  Last night, we had home made chicken and dumplings.  Preston made a deal with me that I would teach him to make dumplings, and he would teach me to play chess.  Neither of us was successful with our lesson!   He didn't enjoy the dough on his hands, and I am no closer to being able to play chess than I was before!  

Preston used a little bit of his goat auction check to buy some wood to make a fort.   Jim is helping him.  It is a good fall project! 

Preston had football practice tonight.  The girls and I took advantage of the nice evening and spent some time at the park.  We love the park!  I love the weather!  It could stay like this until next summer and I sure wouldn't complain!  

The weekends go by too fast

Cameron had a great time in Iola last night at the football game!  Several friends sent me photos of the fan section who had a theme of "Tropical Trail!"  Yes that is my son wearing the coconuts and grass skirt!  

Preston had a football game this morning which Jim took him to.  I don't believe any photos were taken.  When I asked how the game went, Preston told me "we took a thorough butt kicking!"   Usually I hate missing his games, but in this case, maybe it isn't a bad thing?  

I didn't go to the game because the 4-H had a clean up day at the city cemetery.  

Whoever mows up there did not do a good job of avoiding grave decorations, and we had a lot of cleaning to do!  I was pretty proud of these little 4-Hers who worked very hard to clean up a big mess!  

I should mention that they worked really hard for almost 2 hours and then tragedy happened.  A leopard frog was under some long grass and was hit with the weed wacker.   Quincy couldn't focus on anything except the injured party after that!  He now has been relocated to the pond behind our house where we hope he will make a full recovery.  He had a pretty good knick on his head.   

We have been enjoying this evening visiting with Colin who is full of crazy stories!  He also tends to make the little kids go a bit wacky!  Nothing is as fun as being tossed around by your big brother! 

Friday in the land of wackadoo

This morning I passed the final parts of my CDL test and am now officially a bus driver!  Or at least I am licensed to drive a bus!  I am happy to have the testing behind me!  I will be keeping my Watershed  job, and my township treasury position, but this is an opportunity to work a part time job that has the same hours as the kids.  A bonus of a side gig!  Right now, I will be doing some subbing until a route opens up!  

I had no trouble passing the written test, and thank you to my mom for going with me to practice, the driving test was a breeze. I had trouble with the pre-bus inspection test.  I actually failed it last week.  I spent a week watching video demonstrations....proving once again that you really can learn anything on YouTube!  

We went from the DMV straight to the school for Picnic on the Playground day with Harper and Clayton!  They were both pretty excited to get to eat outside!  

This is a fun event that the school puts on.  I think Harper had fun, but she is so shy, it is hard to tell sometimes!  

Now we enter into the coveted weekend zone! 

New park

The city of Scranton got some new playground equipment.  A lot of new stuff!  My co-teacher at RE last night was telling me about how nice it is...so we took a short fieldtrip and went to check it out.  Harper wanted to take the other kids over when RE got out.  We only had a few minutes before it got dark, but they really put in some nice stuff!  

I love dusk.  My favorite time of the day.  

I am sure we will be visiting this park again soon! 

A star is (probably) born

This kid decided to try out for the high school's musical.  He frightened me with his extremely animated and dramatic version of "Dust in the Wind!"  He got one of the lead roles!  

They are doing a production called "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." 

We are very proud of him and can't wait to watch his performance! 

(And the choir geek in me smiled). 

Sunny Saturday

Preston had a football game today. His team won!  First time ever! It was a very exciting day!  

Quincy was the photographer of the day. She did a pretty good job!  Preston made some great plays!  

After running some errands, we came home and played with some cousins.  The kids play so well together and had a lot of fun.  

Cameron decided he was going bowling with friends tonight.  We gave him permission and he went down to get ready.  He came up dressed like this.  He said "the key to bowling is to look the opposite of athletic...."   I am not sure I ever heard that game plan. Guess I will have to see how he did when he gets back.  

Colin is spending this weekend in Boulder with one of his sweetmates who lives there.   He sent me some fun looking pictures!